LA Clippers vs. Houston Rockets

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Three weeks is exactly long enough to remember what happened last time and still be annoyed about it. The second meeting with the same opponent inside a month arrives with the first one sitting unmentioned in the building, carried by both benches and by everybody in the seats who watched it, and a Monday fixture that looked like nothing when the schedule came out has quietly acquired a shape. That is the part of a season nobody plans for. Houston play at a pace that makes a Monday impossible to sleep through. By the second week of March the standings are doing real work on every conference game, so the result matters more than the date suggests. Come for the rematch rather than the original; they are reliably better. Prices for a Monday in March stay reasonable right up until the standings make the fixture matter, which can happen in the week beforehand without any announcement at all.