The Los Angeles Lakers are NBA champions, and with the title comes the liberty to snicker at your rivals. Actually.

Earlier than the Lakers’ captured their 17th title, their crosstown rival Los Angeles Clippers fell in embarrassing vogue by blowing a 3-1 lead towards the Denver Nuggets within the Western Convention semifinals. All season, followers had been getting ready for an all-Los Angeles Western Convention finals, however one group didn’t uphold their finish of the discount.

Lakers couldn’t imagine Clippers’ collapse

Lakers bench ahead Jared Dudley revealed on “The Invoice Simmons Podcast” that the Lakers’ response to the Clippers’ misfortune was laughter.

Through Silver Display screen and Roll:

“We had been laughing. We had been laughing. We had been laughing within the sense like ‘I can’t imagine it.’ I picked them to win recreation seven, there was no method I assumed they had been going to lose. Our entire thoughts was, ‘We bought to beat the Clippers. We wish the Clippers.’ They needed us. It was the trash speaking that occurred — Pat Beverley ‘verify ball’ through the pandemic, ‘Playoff P’ speaking about he one of the best, him and Kawhi, Kawhi with the commercials, the crown. We’re seeing all these billboards up right here. So once we go to apply on daily basis there’s a Kawhi billboard — we see this billboard each single day. It’s proper there.

“However what, it was simply loopy. You see Paul George hit the aspect of the backboard, Kawhi not having that, however these boys, they didn’t wish to be within the bubble. They didn’t wish to be there, and I don’t blame them for sure instances, however the world wanted to see the Clippers and the Lakers and it was unlucky we didn’t get to see that.”

Through the time the Clippers had been falling aside, the Lakers had already superior with a five-game victory over the Houston Rockets. They later took their very own 3-1 lead over the identical Nuggets, and took care of enterprise with a 117-107 Recreation 5 win.

Simply one other day in a Lakers-Clippers rivalry outlined by a one-way move of derision and schadenfreude.

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The Lakers weren’t precisely unhappy to see the Clippers go. (Picture by Ethan Miller/Getty Photographs)

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