Not going to happen.

No championship for the Los Angeles Clippers.

Not this year. Not next year. Not ever.

This is a team that has had most of this decade to figure out how to take advantage of their core four players, who helped them win 50 games for five consecutive seasons … and they have never quite solved it.

Bad execution, bad luck, bad karma … all that and more. But it doesn’t much matter now, because if the Clippers don’t win in Salt Lake City tomorrow night, their season is over — potentially ending their run as a sort-of contender. Or even a winning team.

Did any rational observers really have hope for these Clippers, after five consecutive playoffs appearances (involving pretty much the same cast of characters) yielded nothing beyond the second round?

Three trips to the conference semifinals, including the epic collapse in what should have been a clinching Game 6, at home, against the Houston Rockets in 2015.

Clippers fans can recite the agonizing specifics but we can sum it up for everyone else.

The Clippers led by 19 late in the third quarter and not only blew that lead, they just shut down in the fourth quarter, getting outscored 40-15 to lose 119-107. It was a 25-point swing in about 15 minutes of court time.

And everything that has happened to the team since that game seems little more than the details ahead of a 2017-18 crash.

They are down 3-2 to the fifth-seeded Utah Jazz, with Game 6 in SLC.

Clippers fans will quickly point to the loss, in Game 3, of star forward Blake Griffin to a season-ending foot injury as a big factor in what looks like another early exit. But this is the series in which one of Utah’s best players, center Rudy Gobert, missed essentially the entirety of the first three games.

Utah managed to win Game 1 without Gobert, and has won the past two to put the Clippers on the verge of returning to the irrelevance that pre-dated the 2010 on-the-court arrival of Griffin.

This is hard to imagine, but there are kids in Los Angeles who don’t remember the Lakers making the playoffs and don’t know a time when the Clippers failed to make the playoffs.

A decade from now, it will be a trivia question.

If the Clippers don’t conjure some magic in Utah … well, it feels like the end. Of everything.

Chris Paul is a free agent, as are Griffin and J.J. Redick. The team’s three top scorers.

The Clippers can pay them more than the league’s other teams, but will any of them be up for returning to a franchise that escaped decades of incompetence … only to find postseason failures more painful and higher-profile than the steady beat of unnoticed defeat that had been the club’s history?

Unless the Clippers can show the kind of grit that has never been characteristic of this team, and win Game 6, followed by Game 7 back in Los Angeles, this feels a lot like end times for the franchise that failed to take advantage of what should have been the best times in Clippers history.