Joking at the expense of the Clippers could soon be a thing of the past.

"I'm not going to sit here and promise that we're going to win this amount of games or that we're going to go this far in the playoffs,"  Blake Griffin said. "There's going to be none of that.

"The only thing I'm going to promise is that you're going to get our best every night and when you hear the Clippers, it's not going to be a joke anymore. I can guarantee you that."