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Blake Griffin leads LA Clippers past Warriors 126-121, winning Game 7 after 2 tumultuous weeks
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When the final buzzer sounded on the longest two weeks of the Los Angeles Clippers' careers, they felt more exhaustion than elation. While coach Doc Rivers high-fived fans and pumped his fist at the crowd, Blake Griffin and Chris Paul quietly congratulated each other.
• They had just persevered through seven exhausting playoff games amid enormous distractions leading to their owner's lifetime banishment from the NBA.
• A franchise that once redefined losing was a winner despite it all -- and there's no telling how much farther these new Clippers can go.
• Griffin scored 24 points, Paul had 22 points and 14 assists, and the Clippers outlasted the Golden State Warriors 126-121 in Game 7 on Saturday night to win their first-round playoff series.
• "I'm just happy we pulled it out," Paul said. "It's going to sound crazy, but it was all about tonight. Everything else was in the past. We didn't dwell on all that stuff, and not to diminish how serious everything has been in the past week or so. It was all about basketball tonight."
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Sunday, May 4, the 124th day of 2014. There are 241 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 4, 1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister after the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.
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• On this date:
• In 1776, Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
• In 1864, Swarthmore College in suburban Philadelphia was chartered.
• In 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an 8-hour (Continued on page 30)
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