LA Clippers vs. Los Angeles Lakers

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The third meeting of the season and both sets of supporters have long since stopped being polite. What makes this rivalry unlike any other in the sport is that nobody travels for it: the away end is made up of people who finished work, got on the 110 or the 405, and drove twelve miles to sit among colleagues and be unbearable. They will see each other on Tuesday morning. That proximity gives the whole thing a domestic, personal quality that a hundred-year rivalry between distant cities cannot replicate. Out here the home side has the architecture on its side, which the visiting half resents openly and loudly. A Monday tip does nothing to soften any of it. Pick a side before you walk in, because the building will make you pick one anyway. Arrive earlier than you would for an ordinary Monday, too. The lots for this fixture fill the way they do for a weekend game, and nobody expects that on a school night.