Clippers vs. Spurs Game 4: San Antonio Will Sweep L.A.

The Staples Center staff has been busy with the Los Angeles Kings, Clippers and Lakers all making the postseason, but the San Antonio Spurs will do them a favor tonight when they eliminate "Lob City."

The Clippers were one of the talks of the NBA this season, with the acquisition of former New Orleans Hornets superstar Chris Paul and the franchise making the playoffs for the first time in several years. After a tough series with the Memphis Grizzlies, hopes were high for the Clips. However, the Spurs have all but dashed those with their current 3-0 series lead.

San Antonio has won each game of this series by double-digits and that trend will not change tonight when they end Los Angeles' playoff dreams.

The Spurs bench, led by Matt Bonner and Tiago Splitter, has proved to be more than the Clippers' second unit can handle, and the experience starters of San Antonio have proved to be the better first unit between the two squads.

"If we don't play with urgency, it's not going to be pretty," said superstar Clipper Blake Griffin to the Miami Herald.

Griffin, Paul and company will need to come out of the gates blazing if they want to stand a chance against their opponents tonight, but even then it won't be enough to beat the experienced Spurs.

The time for the Clippers to turn the tide in this series was in Game 3 when they had the Spurs down by 24 points in the second quarter. When a team can come back from that kind of deficit against you, it's difficult to look ahead to the next game and feel a great amount of confidence.

Now, L.A. finds themselves trying to defeat a Spurs team that is undefeated in the playoffs and the fact that no NBA team has come back from an 0-3 deficit to win a postseason series.

San Antonio's main offensive threats in Tony Parker, Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili have played together for what feels like forever, competing together in literally hundreds of playoff games, while the Clippers are still young and trying to get the hang of this postseason thing.

"Everybody knows how explosive the Spurs are, but we just could not get a stop." Paul told the Herald after the loss to San Antonio in Game 3.

The Clippers have some good pieces to build upon for the coming years and could very well defeat these Spurs if they were to meet again in the playoffs next year, but right now San Antonio is too much for Paul and company to handle.

After commanding this series through the first three games, the Spurs will easily dispose of the up-and-coming Clippers team tonight and sweep L.A. in the Staples Center.