Ty Lue said he doesn't "give a damn" if anyone thinks the Los Angeles Clippers purposely tanked the final two games of the regular season to drop to the fourth seed to try to avoid possibly playing the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the playoffs.

The Clippers dropped from third to fourth as they rested Kawhi Leonard and Paul George in losses to the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder.

"I don't give a damn what anybody else thinks on the outside," Lue said Tuesday when asked about the criticism. "We decided to go health over anything else. We finally got our team healthy, and that is what we focused on."

Lue later added: "Whatever people say on the outside, I don't care. I don't read Twitter, have Twitter and Insta-twit, all that. I don't care about all that. I am my own man and I do what I want to do, that's how I live my life."