INGLEWOOD, Calif. — David Adelman’s comment this week was just another brick in The Wall.
He didn’t even intend it as a passive-aggressive dig. He was simply pointing out a fact of life that his team would be dealing with in Los Angeles this week: The speaker system at Intuit Dome is really bleeping loud.
But all it takes is a little push to provoke Clippers fans. Decades of failure and inferiority within their own city have forged an enormous chip on their collective shoulder. As both a towering monument to that attitude and a living manifestation of it, they have The Wall now — a steep, continuous 51-row section behind one of the baskets at Intuit Dome, rising from court-level to the top of the arena.