LA Clippers vs. Los Angeles Lakers

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The argument moves out to Inglewood for the return leg, and the terms of it change completely. In the newer building the visiting half of the city cannot simply buy the loudest seats in the house: that steep fifty-one-row section behind one basket goes only to certified supporters of the home team, and turning up in the wrong colours is explicitly against the rules of the place. So the derby sounds different out here. Less evenly divided, more like one crowd with intruders scattered through it, which is precisely what the people who drew the plans were hoping for. The drive is half the experience. Century Boulevard before a home tip-off fills with people who had to make a decision this year about which of two arenas twelve miles apart is actually theirs, and almost nobody makes that decision quietly. This is the marked date on the Los Angeles basketball calendar. Park early, walk in through the plaza, and pick your side out loud.