LOS ANGELES — The Clippers were none too pleased last season that they played five games in seven nights five different times, tied for the most in the NBA. In 2022-23, they will have none of that — a significant change for an older roster that aims to keeps its players as fresh as possible ahead of the postseason.
Another potential plus: As those playoffs approach, the time off in the Clippers’ schedule increases. In the season’s final five weeks, they will have six breaks between games of two days or more.
That doesn’t mean the Clippers won’t face challenging stretches toward what is an explicit pursuit of the franchise’s first NBA championship. That loosening of the schedule in the season’s final weeks? It’s because they will have already played 61 games by the mid-February All-Star break — the second consecutive season the Clippers will have reached that figure, which ties the 2017-18 Minnesota Timberwolves and a long-forgotten 1950s franchise for the most in NBA history.
