LA Clippers vs. Philadelphia 76ers

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Second night in a row and the dead week is still going. Nobody knows what day it is, half the city is somewhere else, and the people who turn up on consecutive evenings between Christmas and New Year are a specific and rather admirable breed. Philadelphia are a proper opponent rather than a holiday courtesy, which gives the evening some spine. A six o'clock Sunday tip means you are out before nine with the night still available, which matters more in a week where the ordinary rules about bedtimes have already collapsed. Seats for the second of a back-to-back are always the best value on the calendar. Spend the difference on sitting low enough to hear the floor, which is the thing that converts people and the thing television has never once managed to transmit. Arrive in time for the warmup if you can. In the dead week it is noticeably more relaxed than usual and you often get closer to the floor than the ticket strictly entitles you to.