Los Angeles Lakers vs. LA Clippers

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By February the derby has stopped being a novelty and turned into a grudge with a record attached. Two meetings have already happened, both sets of supporters remember them in incompatible detail, and the third one arrives with all of that sitting in the building before anybody touches the ball. The thing that makes this fixture unlike any other on the calendar is the commute: the away support is not a travelling contingent, it is the people you work with, driving twelve miles up from Inglewood and the South Bay to sit directly behind you and be insufferable about it. The room genuinely splits, and you hear it on every call that goes the wrong way. A Wednesday tip keeps the price marginally sane for a fixture this size. Go, and pick a side loudly enough that the people around you have to respond to it. Arrive early enough to watch the away section fill in. For this fixture it is the only time all season that a visiting end in this building is made up entirely of people who drove there after work.