Duck, duck your head! Pigs are flying!

They have to be. The Clippers, the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA, the team that has been an NBA punch line for ineptitude, incompetence and penury for three decades, agreed to hire the league's most in-demand coach, Doc Rivers, and is paying him as much as any coach in basketball.

Yes, the Clippers, whose owner has been sued as a slum lord with his real estate properties and who even has taken to booing and heckling his own players from his courtside seat.