Clippers’ Doc Rivers not proud of Pacific Division title banners

The Clippers have won back-to-back Pacific Division championships, and this summer they hung banners commemorating those titles at their practice facility in Playa Vista.

That doesn’t exactly thrill Clippers Coach Doc Rivers, whose preference would be for the franchise to wait for an NBA championship banner.

“I don’t love them,” Rivers said of division banners. “I hope someday we can remove them all and just put the real banners up, but right now we have to start from somewhere and I think anything that associates yourself with winning anything in this organization is important.”

The Clippers have never made it past the second round in the playoffs. They also happen to share Staples Center with the Lakers, a team that’s won 16 championships.

Rivers personally saw to it that the Clippers would not be reminded of that when they play at home. Last season he initiated a policy whereby the Lakers’ championship banners and retired jerseys are hidden behind giant photos of Clippers players during the team’s games at Staples Center.

So for now, the Clippers will be surrounded only by reminders of their accomplishments, which, as of yet, are nothing to truly celebrate.

Just ask Blake Griffin.

“It’s cool,” Griffin said of the Pacific Division banners, “but it’s not something I would bring somebody in for a tour and walk them in front of the banners and say, ‘Here they are.’ ”