How the world looked when Lakers-Clippers first faced off as shared tenants - ESPN

The Los Angeles Lakers and LA Clippers will face off on Wednesday for their final regular-season matchup as shared tenants of Crypto.com Arena.

The Clippers will move to the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California at the start of the 2024-25 season, marking the end of a 25-year run at the stadium first known as the Staples Center and now Crypto.com Arena. It will also mean the conclusion of the «Hallway Series» with the Lakers.

The series began one-sided — the Lakers held a 38-13 record against the Clippers from 1999-2011. But the past decade has been in the Clippers' favor. Heading into Wednesday, the Clippers have won 37 of the last 46 games dating back to the 2012-13 season.

Here's what the world looked like the first time the Lakers and Clippers played at the venue as shared tenants — Dec. 14, 1999.

Released on Nov. 24, 1999, Pixar's «Toy Story 2» became the top film of December, grossing $114 million domestically.

At the time, it became the third-highest grossing animated film in history. It was also 1999's top animated film worldwide with $487 million.

Randy Newman's «When She Loved Me,» was featured in the movie and won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The film also won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy.

Remember when everything was supposed to crash the second the clock struck midnight to ring in the new millennium?

The potential bug — known as Y2K — started with computer programs. To save memory space, abbreviations designated as four-digit numbers were viewed as two. For example, 98 would be read as 1998. Therefore, the concern was that once the year turned to 2000, — abbreviated as 00 — computers would read it as 1900,