LA Clippers vs. New York Knicks

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The visitors are playing both teams in this city on consecutive nights, which is a scheduling joke with a genuine consequence: whichever LA side gets them second gets a tired team, and tonight is not that one. New York travel in numbers that no other away support matches - you hear them in the concourse before you reach your section, and by tip-off a visible fraction of the lower bowl is in blue and orange and thoroughly enjoying being outnumbered. This building was designed specifically to make that difficult, which turns the whole evening into a contest in the stands as well as on the floor. Get there early enough to watch the away end assemble. It is one of the better pieces of theatre on the calendar and it happens before anybody tips off. Buy ahead rather than on the day for this one. Visiting demand firms the market up in the final week rather than softening it the way most March fixtures do.