Nuggets send Clippers into offseason pondering missed opportunity

With 6:10 left to play in Game 7 on Saturday, Kawhi Leonard sat on the bench and stared at nothing. He spoke to no one, and he looked at no one. The Clippers’ star wing player appeared lost in thought, no doubt pondering, like many around the team, what might have been if the team had shown up in the final game.
Against the more physical Denver Nuggets, the Clippers didn’t display the kind of fight that had gotten them to a decisive game in their best-of-seven first-round playoff ser