Top 10 Plays and Moments from Los Angeles Clippers' 2014-15 Season

The Los Angeles Clippers are the kings of highlights. 

Because of that, it wasn't hard to find 10 great plays they made this season. It was actually too easy. The hard part is narrowing the group of dunks, lobs, shots and dance moves down to just 10.

As we near the end of the year, with the Clippers boasting a 55-26 record and vying for home-court advantage in the Western Conference playoffs, we can look back on some of the best plays in Lob City over the past 80 games.

And yes, there will be dancing.

10. Blake Griffin's Windmill

Sometimes, it's just nice to beat the living heck out of a rival. For Clippers fans, this was one of those times, which come all too frequently now.

The Clippers destroyed the Los Angeles Lakers this year, sweeping the season series and extending their winning streak to six games over their across-the-hall competitors. 

The Clips turned these games into a string of blowouts too, trampling the Lakers by 16.3 points per victory this season. Some of those games turned into dunkfests. Jan. 7's 114-89 victory was one of those samples. Take it away, Blake...

9. J.J. Redick's Emotional Performance

Sometimes, sports just give you those magical moments. One of them came back in a 106-102 early November victory.

In just the sixth game of the season, the Clippers took on the Portland Trail Blazers at Staples Center. But the crowd wasn't usual for J.J. Redick. Nope, Redick had a special fan that day: His 11-month-old son came to see him play in person for the first time.

Redick gave him something to tell the grandkids one day (yep, he'll definitely remember that game), dropping 30 points on 11-of-13 shooting.

"I could have gone 0-of-30 tonight and it still would have been one of the top three or four days of my life," Redick told Melissa Rohlin of the Los Angeles Times. "To have my son at my NBA game, it's incredible."

8. DeAndre Jordan Posterizes Jason Smith

The Clippers' 111-80 March 25th win over the Knicks wasn't the first evening the team would have some beef with Smith. 

Smith and Griffin got into a bit of a scuffle in 2012 when Smith football-style decked the Clippers power forward to the ground on a fast break. Griffin ended up fine, but Smith was ejected from the game for his Polamaluan clothesline. 

Maybe not by coincidence, Griffin and Jordan spent this game trying to dunk on everyone and everything in their way. It turned out Smith crossed D.J.'s path one too many times and paid the price for it.

7. Steve Ballmer's Dancing

I've probably seen this video 10 times.

Actually, it might be more. Twelve times? Fifteen? It's all over, right? Either way, I've seen it a bajillion—yeah, let's call it a bajillion—times, and somehow, I still laugh.

I don't know what's sillier: that a billionaire dances like this or that anyone dances like this. In the end, the best part might be the frantic woman to Steve Ballmer's left who tries to mimic the Clipper owner's spastic...movements? Can we call them movements?

No matter what, I will never again hear Fergie and not think of Ballmer.

6. Lakers Fall Asleep on Defense

So, the Clippers didn't actually do anything impressive here, but this still had to be sneakily exciting for Clippers fans. 

Look, when you own the history the Clippers do, you take all the small battles you can win. This was only the second game of the season, which the Clips eventually won 118-111. The Clippers were supposed to dominate, but somehow, they found themselves down five in the second half. Then, the Lakers fell asleep on defense.

Yes, this is an out-of-timeout play during which five basketball players all apparently fell asleep, and while they dozed off, Blake Griffin politely tip-toed to the rim.

5. Nutmegging Ain't Easy

Ah, more Lakers vs. Clippers...it's what the people deserve.

Carlos Boozer is familiar with being embarrassed on a basketball court. Not because he's always getting humiliated on the floor, but because he once accidentally clenched a fist, wound up and Tiger Woods-pumped to celebrate an and-1, only to punch referee Danny Crawford right in the chumbawambas. He did get up again, though.

If you're not embarrassed after that, I can't imagine you'll blush after anything. Boozer may have regretted his action at the moment, but it must have prepared him for the mentality of getting nutmegged by Chris Paul on national television, like he did during the Lakers' 106-78 April 5 loss.

4. Chris Paul Downs the Trail Blazers

We're getting more recent now. 

It's a pity this game was played on April Fools' Day, because the timing gave everyone an excuse not to believe Paul's stat line. Except it happened. This actually happened.

CP3 went for 41 points, 17 assists, five rebounds and four steals in a regulation game against the Blazers. He turned it over just one time. Once!

Paul pulled his team, once down 19, to a win with a classic 126-122 game, one that was surely his best of the season. It's performances like this one that make him a dark horse to finish at the top of some MVP ballots. 

3. Blocked by Jordan...Blocked by Jordan!

DeAndre Jordan has become one of the NBA's most polarizing players.

Some people think he's the definitive Defensive Player of the Year, someone who impacts a game like no one else with rebounding, rim protection and shot denials. Others take the complete opposite opinion—that Jordan doesn't actually make the Clippers defense much better, an argument that the on/off numbers support.

In reality, Jordan's worth likely lies somewhere in between those two extremes. Doesn't it always?

There is one Jordan-related opinion no one will argue against, though: He's responsible for some of the most exciting YouTube clips on the Internet. And this 40-second stretch from a January game against the Nuggets might be his most superb highlight.

In the end, this may have actually won the Clippers the game. They only ended up winning 102-98 over the lowly Nugs.

It's not even one highlight. It's four: a block, another block, another block and then a reverse slam. As Ralph Lawler so eloquently says, "Blocked by Jordan!"

2. DeAndre Jordan Crushes Brook Lopez

The Clippers' Jan. 22 game with the Brooklyn Nets got out of control quickly, and the Clips eventually won by 39.

In the process, DeAndre wrecked Lopez's spirit. He killed his basketball presence. He didn't even let the Nets center leave the ground before he threw down on him.

Jordan used this season as a springboard to leap over Griffin for the title of "best in-game dunker." 

Sure, Blake is more versatile, and his best dunks are probably flashier than anyone's, but Griffin isn't elevating in traffic and slamming as much as he used to do it. Jordan, though, is rising all the time. He's probably even doing it now. 

1. Blake Griffin's Three Beats the Suns

This was sort of the "Hey! Blake Griffin can actually shoot!" moment. Or at least it was the symbolism behind that idea.

Griffin's jumper has improved immensely this season. He's knocking in a career-high 41 percent of his shots from 16 feet out to the three-point line, which is above the league average of around 40 percent. Actually, Griffin's scoring numbers, whether it's ratio of attempts that come from mid-range or accuracy from that area, are almost identical to LaMarcus Aldridge's.

Now, onto his best game-winner ever, which came with the Clippers down 120-118 against the Phoenix Suns on Dec. 8.

He may have messed up the first out-of-bounds attempt on what probably should have been the final play of overtime, but he certainly made up for it—as did the forgiving rims at Staples.