For the majority of their time sharing Staples Center, the Los Angeles Lakers and L.A. Clippers haven’t been good at the same time.
For the most part that was because the Clippers have been terrible for pretty much all of their history, but in recent years they were the better team record-wise, if not Angelenos’ hearts.
This season, though, the Lakers and Clippers are both two of the top teams in the Western Conference, so before they played against each other on Friday night, it was only natural that their head coaches were asked about the current state of the “rivalry” between the two franchises, such as it exists at all.