Despite the continuing story about the return of the Lakers, the LA Clippers are still the best team in Southern California -- and the best team in the NBA outside of Northern California.The Clippers (14-2) rank second in ESPNs Basketball Power Index?and?are the only team in BPIs top five offenses and defenses, and Chris Paul is having an MVP-caliber season. Paul leads the NBA in real plus-minus?and is more than two points ahead of second-place James Harden.But there is a scandal brewing that might cost the Clippers their chance at a championship -- and its name is Austin Rivers.Rivers is, by minutes per game, the second guy off the Clippers bench, but there is little evidence that he does much of anything well enough on the court to warrant being on the roster. Rivers is a guard who ranks ninth on his own team in 3-point shooting percentage, among players averaging at least one 3-point attempt a game. (Center Marreese Speights is currently hitting 3s at a higher rate.) He does not pass the ball well (his assist rate of 13.6 percent ranks 80th in the league), he ranks eighth on the Clippers in steals per 100 possessions and is the only player on the team to log more than 100 minutes with a negative box plus-minus rating on both offense and defense.Shall we go on? OK, in real plus-minus, Rivers ranks 60th among just the point guards. RPM suggests Rivers is being outplayed by such luminaries as Jonathan Gibson and Malcolm Delaney.Advanced stats are not everything, of course, and we have not measured all aspects of what a player can contribute to his team. But we have measured a lot and there is simply no evidence that Rivers has earned a prominent role on a team that wants to challenge for a championship.The response here is about the Clippers options. Maybe Rivers was the best they could get? Nope. Rivers signed a deal in July that pays him $11 million this season (fifth-highest on the team), yet the Clippers could sign Jarrett Jack today (likely for a lot less than $11 million) and improve in every statistic mentioned above. Jack has better numbers than Rivers in basically every season of his career. He passes better, shoots better, plays better defense and, given that he made $6.3 million last year, would absolutely provide better value.Signing Jack is not the Clippers only option, or likely even their best option, but he is clearly a better option than Rivers. If coach Doc Rivers does not come to grips with that basic fact regarding his sons play, the Clippers will fall short again and waste another brilliant season from Chris Paul.For more analytics content, head to ESPN.com/analytics. Christian Miller Jersey . 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At the end of the night, when Infiltration climbed back to the grand finals to another rematch against the Japanese star, all possible movements and tactics of Fuudos explosive R.Mika had been broken down and dismantled by Team Razers South Korean genius.The win for Infiltration puts him in an elite class, as the SFV championship gives him his fourth title at the Evolution tournament. While he won two tournaments in Street Fighter X Tekken in 2012 and 2013, Infiltrations greatest accomplishment came when he won the Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition title four years ago over Bruce GamerBee Hsiang from Taiwan. He also joins Daigo TheBeast Umehara as the only other competitor to win two mainline Street Fighter titles at Evolution in the modern era.As anticlimactic as it sounds, this tournament was Infiltrations to lose. After his main rival and greatest threat, Hajime Tokido Taniguchi, fell in the run-up to the top eight, the obstacles to his fourth Evolution trophy seemed to completely open up for the top-ranked player in the world. It wasnt until Fuudos mix-up heavy and crowd-pleasing masked wrestler took the stage that Infiltrations throne was in danger.However, when the excess confetti was shot into the arena air, R.Mikas frenzied play had been neutralized, and Infiltration was draped in his homelands flag to the delight of his South Korean fans that had traveled all the way to Vegas.Aside from Fuudo, it was the unexpected Nash player also from Japan, Atsushi Yukadon Fujimura, who gave Infiltration the most trouble. The unheralded player from Japan was given little opportunity to take down the South Korean titan in the winner semifinals, and the game play followed the narrative. Infiltration got ahead early and often, and although thhe Cinderella story was able to take a set off the multi-time champ, Infiltration adapted -- and he adapted easily.ddddddddddddIt wasnt until their next match in the loser bracket final where Yukadon showed his possible full potential. The rookie was able to push Infiltration to the brink before the veteran showed his years of professional play by not flinching with his life on the line in the dying rounds.Yukadon shook off his nerves that seemingly struck him in the opener, and the two had the best Nash vs. Nash mirror weve seen thus far in Street Fighter V, with Infiltration barely edging out the Japanese prospect. In third place, Yukadon has made himself known in the scene, and the coming months will show if this was the start of a new force in the professional scene, or simply a one-off performance.First at Final Round 19 in March. First at North California Regionals a week later. First at Red Bull Kumite in April. Second at Community Effort Orlando in June, losing only to the Murderface Tokido. And now, a first-place finish at Evolution 2016, giving him four major Street Fighter V championships in five outings. With more upcoming in the next months on the road to the ultimate prize, the Capcom Tour Championship, Infiltration still has work to do if he wants this year to go down as one of most dominating years for a single player in fighting game history.The mind and heart of South Korean Street Fighter -- Team Secrets fiery Lee Poongko Chung-Gon would be considered the soul -- Infiltration and his Nash have an entire nation behind them.Tokido will be coming for redemption. The legend Daigo will be coming for his throne. Fuudo will want to gain revenge. Ryota Kazunoko Inoue defending his Capcom championship. Arman Phenom Hanjani will fight for the pride of Europe. Justin Wong and Joseph L.I. Joe Ciaramelli for the United States.Infiltration will be waiting, though, and ready for the challenge. 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