LA Clippers vs. Milwaukee Bucks

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There are maybe eight home games left by now and everybody in the building can tell you the number without checking. That awareness changes a crowd completely - people arrive earlier, stay through the breaks, and applaud things in the third quarter that would have gone unremarked in November. Milwaukee are a proper opponent and a real test, the kind of fixture that produces an actual contest rather than a procession. A Wednesday in the last week of March is the deepest point of the run-in. Come now rather than in April if you want the tension without the sentimentality, because the final fortnight adds a layer of goodbye to everything and some people would rather just watch the basketball. Check the seeding picture before you buy. The difference between a live late-March game and a dead one is the largest single swing in atmosphere this building produces all year, and it is worth knowing which one you are buying into.