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I’m glad The Best Los Angeles Sports Arguments<\/a> exists. Now we can find out whether the best way to avoid traffic and still be seen at Lakers games is<\/p>\n

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  1. showing up at the beginning of the 2nd quarter<\/li>\n
  2. leaving at the beginning of the 4th quarter<\/li>\n
  3. both!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m glad The Best Los Angeles Sports Arguments exists. Now we can find out whether the best way to avoid traffic and still be seen at Lakers games is showing up at the beginning of the 2nd quarter leaving at the beginning of the 4th quarter both!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,32,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-sports","category-urban-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-uk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1343,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bizspeak","url_meta":{"origin":1880,"position":0},"title":"Bizspeak","author":"Gil","date":"February 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I read a lot of financial earnings statements at my job. 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