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YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE GREAT? Another Clippers-Warriors series, this time without Donald Sterling tainting it. The Dubs fought surprisingly hard (given the low stakes) to beat L.A. on Tuesday, overcoming a 40-point night from Blake Griffin.

Along the way, Chris Paul maintained his title as the KING OF FLOPS. And people wonder why the Clippers are so hated these days. The best moment involving CP3 was definitely when Steph Curry crossed him so hard CP3 could do nothing but breakdance in response.

The loss was actually painful for L.A. in that it gave Portland possession of home court advantage in the first round by a half-game margin. The Spurs won, so L.A.'s lead on San Antonio for No. 5 is just a half-game. L.A. could go from facing Portland with HCA to facing Houston without it.

A SEESAW BATTLE! Brooklyn beat the Pacers to climb back over idle Boston for No. 8 in the East. WHAT A FEVERED RACE FOR 8! Oh boy.

FINALLY, SOME T.V. TIME FOR DRAKE: Canadian-based importer of fugazydom Drake, who never gets enough attention from basketball fans, videobombs Mike Fratello during Warriors-Clippers.

THE SEASON REALLY MIGHT BE TOO LONG: On March 31 of the long NBA deathmarch, Kevin Harlan started doing Bane impersonations during Heat-Spurs.

JAH-LIL PROBLEMS: Kevin O'Connor writes that Jahlil Okafor's flaws are being exposed during the Tournament.

BARON DAVIS IS SALTY, TAKE LXVII: Baron Davis, who is starring in Sin City Saints with Rick Fox and others, compares acting to playing under Mike Dunleavy in an interview with HitFix. "You know it's kind of like playing basketball for Mike Dunleavy. [...] So when we did get in the arena and the cameras were on I was like, 'Oh, I'm used to being told what to do every time I dribble the ball so this won't bother me at all.'"

VERY SWEET: Dwight Howard says goodbye to a young fan.

WELL THEN: Kevin Durant says in an interview for Revolt TV that he would like to remain with the Thunder for his whole career.

MVP RACE: Jason Patt gives the current edge to James Harden in the prepenultimate MVP race column.

LET'S GET TOGETHER: Nice piece on how Kyrie and LeBron figured out how to play together.

IN PRAISE OF BEEF: Jason Concepcion on Enes Kanter's wonderfully bizarre beef with Utah.

OH COOL: Someone with access to a cloning device or time machine is utilizing it to read Twitter from two different but near places at the Bucks' arena. Good work, soldier.

MEET NEXT YEAR'S TANKING PRIZES: Check out the biggest names on McDonald's All-American team, the best high school seniors in the country.

IT IS KNOWN: When Shaq participates in a sad little Justin Bieber roast on Comedy Central, the Lakers will get roasted, too. It is known.

ON BOSTON: Zach Lowe on the interesting problems of the Celtics.

Happy Wednesday. See you next time.

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