The LA Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers each played the first game of their respective regular-season schedules last night, though if you didn’t look at a calendar, you would have thought this game was taking place in May.
The crowd was raucous, social media was on fire, and a postseason feel was present in Tuesday night’s meeting between the Clippers and Lakers, which the Clippers won 112-102, despite the absence of their second star, Paul George.
It didn’t always look like the Clippers were going to have the edge, especially at the very beginning of the game.