LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Clayton Kershaw and Anze Kopitar announced their impending retirements two hours apart on Thursday, the Los Angeles sports world changed forever in an afternoon.

The timing was pure coincidence for the Dodgers' enduring ace and the Kings' longtime captain , and their decisions were relatively unsurprising.

These two 21st-century LA icons still created one epochal sports day for their adopted town.

“I guess it’s kind of funny how everything works out like that,” Kopitar said. “It must have been something in the universe for us to decide to do it together this day.”

After spending the better part of two decades as the heart and soul of their respective teams, Kershaw and Kopitar will step out of the Hollywood lights over the next year — Kershaw in a few weeks

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