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Bill Plaschke: Clippers moving in right direction with Blake Griffin trade

LOS ANGELES - Did the Los Angeles Clippers really just do what I think they did?

Did they just trade the best home-grown player in franchise history, their one real connection with Hollywood, the most glittering mural in the rafters?

Did they do it barely six months after basically making him a Clipper for life by giving him a five-year, $171 million contract?

An about-face on the franchise's face? Calling a car for the guy who once dunked over a car?

Works for me.

The Clippers trade of Blake Griffin on Monday was stunning but

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