“Just try to give them a chance to compete,” Ham said. Ham said that his team discussed throwing in the towel during a timeout with around six minutes to go and the Lakers down by 18, but a “group decision” was made to make one more push. The stars didn’t check out until 27 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter - even though the Clippers led by double-digits for most of the final period. The implications seemingly factored into the decision to play LeBron, AD (and D’Angelo Russell) on the second leg of a back-to-back and coming off eight days on the road. In other words: Wednesday posed arguably the most important game of the Lakers’ season (and perhaps the most consequential Lakers-Clippers meeting ever). The result all but assured that the Lakers (41-39) will have to go through the play-in tournament unless they can defeat the Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz and both the Clippers and Golden State Warriors lose their final two games. It was the Lakers’ 11th straight loss to the Clippers and 36th in their last 43 meetings. Despite being put in an exceedingly tough position by the scheduling gods, LeBron James and Anthony Davis suited up for the Los Angeles Lakers in their 125-118 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday at Arena - and played into the final minute.
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