For all the 35 years they have shared Los Angeles, the Clippers have languished in the shadow of the Lakers. This season, the signing of LeBron James was supposed to return the Lakers to local dominance. To the delight of L.A.'s other team, it hasn’t.
For 17 games, the Lakers played without James while he recovered from a groin injury. They went 6-11. In his first game back, they beat the Clippers in overtime on Jan. 31.
At the trade deadline the Clippers chose to think first about the future, clearing salary-cap space and shipping off leading scorer Tobias Harris and Boban Marjanovic in a deal that brought them more draft picks than players. The Lakers prioritized their present. James also hadn’t been shy about his desire to play with Davis, with whom he shares an agent.
Since then, the Lakers have lost to bottom-feeding teams in Atlanta, New Or-leans and Memphis. On Saturday they suffered their worst loss of all, at Phoenix, which has the worst record in the NBA. “We’ve just got to continue to go,” forward Brandon Ingram said. “I’m personally not worried about anybody outside this organization, worried about a story or anything. I’m going to continue to worry about us every day — how we can get better in practice, how we can come together to the games and be prepared and focused and just be worried about the next night.”
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