There's still a bright light when they won games, but it's against not a tougher opponents. Now they were tested by the Nuggets without their best players, and guess what the result it, they have lost the game. For sure this is going to hurt them more.
It's really hard to have committed players that's why they should consider not always trading their players nowadays because they may end up like this and with their current state, there will be no doubt that they cannot get to the NBA playoffs with this kind of performance. The Clippers should consider fixing their plays and strengthening their chemistry because it is such a shame that they can't even win a game from a team that resting their star players, what more if they meet up in the Playoffs in the first round?
To be honest it's both sided, you could have a team who trade their players for other players without noticing, the player may even learn that they got traded from twitter, it has happened a million times already. You could also have players who force their way out, making the team basically get nothing in return.
Both sides are not really loyal to each other, and if you are really seriously loyal then you could be either like Giannis where you get a bit lucky but also build a decent team around you, or you could be like Dame where the team owners basically reject building a decent team around you to save some money and make you spend over a decade trying to achieve the impossible. In the end, the owners make hundreds of millions in profit every year when their teams are valued higher, and players are making tens of millions of dollars for playing. That is as good as both sides could hope for, there is nothing wrong with that and I think it should be decent enough.