KING CASE AFTERMATH: A CITY IN CRISIS : Lakers, Clippers Will Settle for Homes Away From Home : NBA playoffs: Game against Trail Blazers will be played in Las Vegas. Game against Jazz will be at Anaheim.

Games 4 of the Clipper-Utah Jazz and Laker-Portland Trail Blazer series have been switched out of town because of the civil disorder in the Los Angeles area.

The Clippers, originally scheduled to play the game at the Sports Arena, will play the Jazz Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Anaheim Convention Center.

The Lakers, scheduled to play at the Forum, will play the Trail Blazers at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Nevada Las Vegas’ Thomas & Mack Center.

The Clippers and Lakers each trail in their best-of-five series, two games to one.

“We’ve lost a big advantage,” Laker Coach Mike Dunleavy said.

Said Clipper General Manager Elgin Baylor: “It takes away some advantages when you’re not playing at your own arena--the familiarity with your own place, the baskets, the lighting and your own fans. But we still will have Clipper fans there, and that’s important.”

Both teams had to find a venue in which they were assured of playing Sunday.

“This site was our decision,” Laker spokesman Bob Steiner said. “We’d rather have played here, but we were looking for the closest, largest site that was available.

“Nothing is being scheduled for L.A. this weekend. We can’t say we’re going to go (in the Forum) on Sunday. What if we can’t go?”

Of course, both teams have already played--and lost--two games on their opponents’ courts and each would have to play Game 5 there.

But things could have been even worse.

A Jazz official raised the possibility of playing Game 4 in Salt Lake City, noting the Jazz would give the Clippers the home team’s share of the gate.

Said Coach Larry Brown: “I’d rather play it in a studio.”

Dunleavy was asked if anyone had mentioned playing Game 4 in Portland.

“That would be the last thing I’d want to do,” he said. “Nobody has mentioned anything like that to me. They know better.”

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