It must really annoy the Lakers that they have to share their plush new home with Los Angeles' other, less-successful team. Because as roommates go, the Clippers are the NBA equivalent of all those inconsiderate slobs you were assigned to share space with in college.
   
The Clippers had an opportunity Tuesday to do their elite neighbors a big favor: Take advantage of the Jazz's sloppy and sometimes confused play and knock them behind the Lakers into seventh place in the Western Conference. But the Clippers reverted to their own bumbling, last-place style when it mattered, allowing the Jazz to hang on to sixth by winning for the seventh time in eight games, 94-89 in the Staples Center.