LA Clippers vs. New Orleans Pelicans

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Sunday evening is the quietest this building ever gets, and quiet suits it. The arena was designed around noise - a bowl that funnels sound straight down onto the floor, a ring of screen overhead that nobody can ignore, an entire section built to intimidate - and on a half-full November Sunday all of that machinery is running for a few thousand people who simply wanted to watch basketball. The effect is oddly intimate. New Orleans are loose and watchable and have nothing at stake in November, which is the right kind of opponent for an evening like this. Inglewood on a Sunday also means the roads work and the lots empty in minutes. If your only experience of this place is a sold-out derby, come to the opposite of one and find out what the building is like when it is not performing. Parking is also at its least painful on a Sunday evening out here, which is a small thing until you have tried the same trip on a Friday and remembered it ever since.