LOS ANGELES — All the way to the Staples Center loading dock and the most unfair of offseasons, Doc Rivers still was doing it the right way.
The Los Angeles Clippers coach, unlike his team's fans in those final moments of the season-ending104-98 Game 6 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, wasn't throwing things or shouting obscenities at any referee who dared come his way. He walked slowly and quietly out into the night, the arm of his daughter, Callie, wrapped around him and a look of peace on his face.
But was he angry, incensed that banned Clippers owner Donald Sterling's hateful words sparked this controversy that enveloped his championship-caliber team for these past three weeks? Of course he's angry.
