Leave it to Jerry Sloan to ignore 14 years of precedent, 31 games of evidence and a mountain of history -- recent and ancient -- of the parties involved.
"These things happen in basketball," the Jazz coach shrugged Wednesday after his team's 96-89 loss to the Clippers.
But they don't happen to the Jazz. They don't happen to the Clippers. And they never, ever, not even once, happen in the Delta Center.
LA Ends Years of Misery with Win in Utah