LA Clippers vs. Indiana Pacers

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The last Sunday before the city shuts down for a fortnight is a strange, suspended sort of evening. Everybody has either finished work or given up pretending, nobody has travelled yet, and there is a two-day window where the whole place is relaxed and still here. A seven o'clock tip fits neatly inside it. Indiana are a seriously well-drilled opponent who will not be treating the date as a holiday, which keeps the basketball honest while everybody in the seats is comprehensively in holiday mode. This is also the first of two home games in two nights, which almost nobody does both of. Pick this one if you want the fuller building and the better atmosphere; pick tomorrow if you want the better seat for less money. Worth knowing: the two games fall on consecutive evenings, so if you are choosing, the difference is entirely atmosphere against value rather than quality of opponent.