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Los Angeles Lakers forward Jared Dudley is the latest member of the Lob City Los Angeles Clippers to essentially rip the team.
The Lob City Clippers were always one of the best teams in the NBA during the regular season and looked primed to contend for a championship year after year.
The Clippers, however, never made it past the second round of the playoffs during the Chris Paul–Blake Griffin–DeAndre Jordan era and often got in their own way with big-time collapses and mental mistakes. Plenty of stories have come out about the issues on those teams, and they're still coming to this very day.
In an interview with Sam Amick of The Athletic, Jared Dudley calls those Clippers “the most toxic team” he has been on:
“That team was the most toxic team,” Dudley said. “It was weird because it was a bipolar type team. We were somewhat cool off the floor; we weren’t cool on the floor.
“It was the biggest front-running team. You’re up 20, everything’s good, throwing lobs. Down 20, people want to fight, bickering.”
Blake Griffin and Chris Paul were believed to have a tense relationship behind closed doors during their time on the Clippers. Meanwhile, Paul’s bond with head coach Doc Rivers reportedly began to deteriorate after Rivers decided not to trade for New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony in a deal which would have included Rivers’ son, Austin Rivers.
The Clippers traded Paul to the Houston Rockets in the summer of 2017, ending the Lob City era. Los Angeles traded Griffin to the Detroit Pistons in January of 2018. Jordan left the Clippers in free agency for the Dallas Mavericks in the summer of 2018.
The Clippers have obviously rebounded nicely since the end of Lob City, boasting one of the most loaded rosters in the NBA. They'll try to go further than those disappointing teams.
