Death, taxes and the Clippers beating the Lakers. Those are about the only sure things in life.

The Clippers have defeated the Lakers 11 consecutive times winning by an average of 22.6 points during the past 10 meetings.

The Lakers are listed as the home team, but both teams play their home games at Staples Center so that is negated.

The Clippers are furious after losing 90-88 at home to the Mavericks two days ago. They'll be ready here to pound a team they've long hated since LA has always been a Lakers town.

The spot is bad for the Lakers returning home after a seven-game, two-week road trip that didn't finish until Friday night.

The Lakers are not playing well after an early hot start dropping 12 of their past 13 going 3-10 ATS. They went 1-6 on their road trip.

This is a cheap price to back the much superior, motivated Clippers.