The Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers are taking each other on Thursday night. Both Los Angeles teams have been playing middling basketball lately though they each still technically remain in the playoff race. Still, the Lakers have underachieved compared to preseason expectations and have taken a lot of heat from the media for it, specifically from TNT's Inside the NBA crew. Shaq and Charles Barkley have hit the Lakers hard for their struggles this season, which is why LA center Dwight Howard had a little fun at their expense before the Clippers game.

Dwight Howard is hilarious. Howard was hoping that there was any other channel that the Lakers-Clippers game could have been on except for Shaq and Charles Barkley's TNT. The last thing he wanted to hear was those two.

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But that wasn't even the best part of the video. How on point were Howard's Shaq and Barkley impersonations? The Lakers center has clearly been practicing his impressions.

Hopefully, Howard can keep the Lakers' locker room nice and loose ahead of the Clippers showdown. All it would take is a quick Shaq and Charles Barkley impersonation.

If Howard can bring that level of dedication to the Lakers-Clippers game tonight, then the former LA squad should be in good shape.