From his seat in Staples Center’s highest deck, Pablo Amaya was one of the most socially distanced fans in the arena Sunday on the night the Clippers welcomed fans back for the first time this season.
Feeling isolated was not an altogether unusual feeling. Born in Minnesota but raised in Riverside, Amaya said he is used to feeling like one of the only Timberwolves fans around. His reward Sunday for dressing up in a lime-green Minnesota jersey and shorts, putting his bleach-blond hair in two knots and driving downtown from the Inland Empire for his first live game in four years, was seeing his favorite team get drilled by the Clippers, 124-105.