LOS ANGELES — Late Wednesday morning, Clippers president Lawrence Frank joined a Zoom call with reporters for yet another uncomfortable conversation. For months, the Clippers have been under siege, from accusations of cap circumvention through a shady environmental company (the team has denied any impropriety) to a 5–16 start that has flummoxed the organization. The latest melodrama: a middle-of-the-night meeting between Frank and Chris Paul that resulted in Paul being exiled months after signing a one-year contract to return.
“Essentially,” Frank said explaining the decision, “it wasn’t working out the way we had planned.”
