LOS ANGELES >> Six months and 82 games of labored breathing earned the Clippers a home-court advantage that then lasted four entire quarters before vanishing as convincingly as the NBA career of Keith Closs.
They fell - collapsed, actually - Saturday against a Utah Jazz team that was playing shorthanded and with the heavy history of having lost 18 of its past 20 games to the Clippers.
“Obviously, you want to win all your home games,” Coach Doc Rivers said after the defeat. “We fought all the way until the end of the year to get it.