



In perhaps the strangest year for off-the-court moments in NBA history, the fracas between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Houston Rockets might be right at the top of the list. The two teams played an otherwise forgettable game (save for the fact that it was Chris Paul’s first against his former team in Staples Center), but after, all hell broke loose, as a contingent of Rockets players reportedly used a secret tunnel to make their way into the Clippers’ locker room to confront Blake Griffin and Austin Rivers.

It was quite the news for basketball fans to wake up to the following morning. We’re now pretty far past the incident, so much so that both of the Clippers players at the center of the incident are elsewhere — Griffin was traded to Detroit at the deadline, Rivers was traded to Washington earlier this offseason.

But still, the legacy of the tunnel raid lives on. The incident is apparently so popular that the Clippers are using it as it markets stadium tours.



I received this email from the Clippers today. They are doing tours of the SECRET TUNNEL at Staples! Cc: @World_Wide_Wob pic.twitter.com/73rxaqjKuy — Adam Spector – the Fist of Khonshu. (@Howsito) July 13, 2018

Now there is no way that the Clippers (or anyone, for that matter) care about what I think, but I would highly recommend that they lean all the way into this. Have Steve Ballmer pull some strings with Microsoft and have them turn this into a full virtual reality experience, where you put on a headset or something and join the Rockets as they storm the secret tunnel into the locker room. Get greeted by Tobias Harris and Boban Marjanovic, both of whom have a bunch of water balloons and weren’t on the team at the time but are still delightful. There are options here is my point, and if the Clippers do let you do a tunnel tour, they might as well let it reflect the absurdity of the whole thing.