ClipperBlog: Playoff Purgatory

The Los Angeles Clippers have made the playoffs five years in a row. Each year, they fell short of the Conference Finals.

They are in postseason purgatory.

Over the past two weeks, I wrote on ClipperBlog and featured the Clippers and the other 17 teams to make at least five consecutive postseason appearances without reaching the Conference Finals during the streak. Eight of those 17 teams broke through and eventually made the Conference Finals before the end of the postseason streak, and two made it all the way to the NBA Finals.

But none of the previous 17 teams to make at least five consecutive postseason appearances without reaching the Conference Finals won a title before missing the playoffs first.

All of these roundups featured the players who played at least 10,000 regular season minutes, the head coaches, and what happened to each team at the end of their run of Playoff Purgatory, circling it back and relating it to the Clippers’ current situation.

Check out the entire Playoff Purgatory series!

The 2010s Los Angeles Clippers

The 1980s New Jersey Nets

The 1980s Portland Trail Blazers

The 1980s Washington Bullets

The 1980s Utah Jazz

The 1980s Denver Nuggets

The Late 1980s Houston Rockets

The Late 1980s Milwaukee Bucks

The Early 1990s New York Knicks

The Early 1990s Boston Celtics

The Early 1990s San Antonio Spurs

The 1990s Portland Trail Blazers

The 1990s Atlanta Hawks

The 1990s Phoenix Suns

The Late 1990s Minnesota Timberwolves

The Early 2000s Utah Jazz

The 2000s Denver Nuggets

The Early 2010s Atlanta Hawks

-1SKILLZ