Will the Los Angeles Clippers Surpass the Lakers as the L.A. NBA Favorites?

Back on Dec. 8, Derek Fisher’s buzzer-beater enabled the Lakers to edge out the Clippers, their Staples Center co-tenants, 87-86.  That started the Clippers on a four-game slide.

Since then, the perennial Western Conference cellar-dwellers have turned things around winning eight of their last 11 games and capping it with a statement win last night against the Miami Heat, 111-105, snapping the Heat’s 13-game road winning streak.

These were the same Miami Heat that destroyed the Lakers on Christmas Day, 96-80.  And these were the same Los Angeles Clippers that began this season losing 13 of their first 14 games.

But that was then, and this is now.  First-year hea...

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