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Speaker 1: Right now in downtown Los Angeles, a battle for supremacy

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Speaker 1: is taking place between the two NBA teams that call

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Speaker 1: this home. One organization has won the NBA's Western Conference

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Speaker 1: thirty times, taken home sixteen World Championships, boasted twenty seven

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famers, and has retired nine Jersey numbers. The

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Speaker 1: other is the Los Angeles Clippers. Westward is a podcast

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Speaker 1: about the birth of professional basketball in Los Angeles and

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Speaker 1: a rivalry thirty five years in the Majorshipers never going

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Speaker 1: to steal La. Let me make that very clear. Why

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Speaker 1: in the world would you want to go to the Clippers?

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Speaker 1: And it's told of the man who was and is

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Speaker 1: at the center of both, Jerry West. This is not

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Speaker 1: about the Clippers unrooting the Lakers from their parasol. That

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Speaker 1: won't never happen, But for seven straight years, the Clippers

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Speaker 1: had the best team in Los Angeles. From the Dan

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Speaker 1: Patrick podcast network, iHeartRadio, Joy Road and Sugar twenty three,

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Speaker 1: featuring interviews with George Lopez, Chris Lloyd, Eljim Baylor, Paul Westhead,

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Speaker 1: Jim Brown, Jeff Perlman, Byron Scott, and Bobby glenn Smith.

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Speaker 1: Westward premieres April twentieth. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.