Los Angeles Lakers vs Los Angeles Clippers Live Stream (Play-By-Play & Scoreboard) #NBAonESPN
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There's plenty of animosity between the NBA's two Los Angeles teams, but it would hardly be fair to call the Lakers and Clippers rivals. After all, one team has 17 championships and the other has none. The Lakers and Clippers have never faced off in a postseason series, and they've only even made the postseason in the same year eight times. For most of basketball history, the Lakers have contended while the Clippers have tanked, and the moment the Clippers were ready to join them on top of the mountain, the Lakers tumbled back down to Earth.
The summer of 2019 was supposed to finally give us the fabled streetlights vs. spotlights rivalry. Kawhi Leonard and Paul George spurned the Lakers for the Clippers. The little brother was the championship favorite... and then blew a 3-1 lead to a Nuggets team that the Lakers beat on their way to the 2020 title. Injuries depleted the two teams from there. For all of the opening night and Christmas showdowns, the Lakers and Clippers have still never really managed to play a truly meaningful game with significant stakes for both sides.
Well, that's about to change. The Lakers have never led the Clippers in the standings this season, nor have they been tied since opening night. In fact, the Clippers have led the Lakers by as many as 6.5 games this season, but fortune has slowly shifted in favor of the purple and gold ever since. The Lakers got healthy. The Clippers caught the injury bug. The Lakers dumped Russell Westbrook and soared. The Clippers signed Russell Westbrook and saw firsthand why the Lakers were so eager to move him in the first place. On Friday, the Lakers defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves for their 14th win in their past 21 games. The Clippers lost to the Memphis Grizzlies for their 10th loss in the same time frame.
They are now separated by only a single loss in the standings. The 39-38 Lakers are the Western Conference's No. 8 seed. The 41-38 Clippers are No. 6. The Lakers have two of the easiest games on their schedule coming up: road dates with the tanking Rockets and Jazz. The Clippers lost the second half of a back-to-back on Saturday against the Pelicans, and Paul George won't suit up again in the regular season. All of this is to say that the Lakers and Clippers will probably be quite close in the standings by the middle of this week, perhaps tied, and there is a very real chance that the team that slips gets stuck fighting for a postseason berth in the play-in round while the victor sits comfortably in the top six. They won't have to wait passively to find out how their competition is doing, either.
On Wednesday, the Clippers will "host" the Lakers for what is shaping up to be the most important game the two have ever played against one another. For the first time in this non-rivalry's history, both the Lakers and Clippers are all-in on winning the championship right now, and both the Lakers and Clippers will badly need to win this game to set themselves up to do so. There are, of course, no guarantees here. The conference is so condensed that other teams might push the victor down or prop the loser up. But the Clippers know well just how scary the play-in round can be. They were eliminated last season when they lost there twice. Anything can happen in a single game, particularly for teams as injury-prone as these two.
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