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Some more public defecation from the Lakers on a display.

A game that was hyped up is the last stand.

The last stand for the Laker franchise with LeBron James to make that run after they bent over in the valley of the sun got hit by a cacti in Arizona.

And early on, the Lakers came out.

They had a big lead there up by 10 points looking pretty good in the first part of the game.

And then they had to play the rest of the game.

They had to play the rest of the game. And that was their demise.

As the Los Angeles Clippers, been told by many people that work here at Fox Sports Radio over the years, irrelevant, garbage franchise, and they continue to take the lunch of the Lakers.

113 to 105, the latest final.

And so the Clippers in fine position with the only a limited schedule left.

You look down the stretch here in the NBA,

there's only a short amount of games left before the playoffs go on.

And the NBA standings, it is bottled up at the bottom of the Western Conference.

With the Clippers right now, the seven seed in the West,

but they're only a half game behind the Utah Jazz, and the math

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