After months of playing musical chairs and overtaking each other for the ninth seed, both teams will finally settle who gets to claim it on Tuesday. Yes, it's for a play-in seed, but this is very much a high-stakes game.
If L.A. can't get the sixth seed, it should at least fight hard for the seventh or eighth seed to have two chances to win one play-in game. Losing Tuesday's game to the Warriors not only gives them the tie-breaker advantage but also increases the Lakers' chance to stay in the ninth or 10th seed of the play-in bracket.
At this point, the Lakers and Warriors are probably sick of facing each other in high-stakes games, as they've been doing since the first play-in game. But that's the consequence of being mediocre all season and having to cram their way to victory by the end of the year.
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