Clippers-Lakers game Monday comes with motivation aplenty

LOS ANGELES — Former Laker Ivica Zubac expects full well that his former teammates will be motivated when they meet his new team Monday — it’s crunchtime in the playoff race and the seventh-place Clippers lead the 10th-place Lakers in the Western Conference standings.
After being part of the first trade between the franchises since 1983, when the teams exchanged packages that brought Norm Nixon to the (then-San Diego) Clippers and sent Byron Scott to the Lakers, Zubac said he&r