The Los Angeles Clippers are an NBA team based in Los Angeles. The franchise was founded as the Buffalo Braves in 1970 as an expansion team. Rebranded as the San Diego Clippers after the sailing ships seen in San Diego Bay, the team saw little success and missed the playoffs during all six of their years in SanDiego. In 1984, the franchise was controversially relocated to Los Angeles by new owner Donald Sterling without NBA approval. The Clippers’ reputation improved during the 2010s, which saw them transform into consistent postseason contenders. The team qualified to play in the NBA playoffs in five consecutive seasons from 2011 to 2017 and won two consecutive division titles in 2013 and 2014.
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The Los Angeles Clippers are an NBA team based in Los Angeles. The franchise was founded as the Buffalo Braves in 1970 as an expansion team. Rebranded as the San Diego Clippers after the sailing ships seen in San Diego Bay, the team saw little success and missed the playoffs during all six of their years in SanDiego. In 1984, the franchise was controversially relocated to Los Angeles by new owner Donald Sterling without NBA approval. The Clippers’ reputation improved during the 2010s, which saw them transform into consistent postseason contenders. The team qualified to play in the NBA playoffs in five consecutive seasons from 2011 to 2017 and won two consecutive division titles in 2013 and 2014, both firsts for the franchise. Despite this success, the Clippers have struggled in the postseason and never advanced past the conference semifinals round. They are the oldest franchise to have never played in theNBA Finals. They play their home games at the Staples Center, an arena they share with fellow NBA team Los Angeles Lakers, as well as the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women’s National Basketball Association and the Los Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. The team is a member of the Pacific Division in the league’s Western Conference. It was also the first season in Southern California for long-time announcer Ralph Lawler, who began his association with the franchise with the Clippers in the 1979–80 season. It is the only NBA team to have played in both the NBA Finals and the Finals of the NBA Women’s Basketball Championship.
It has won the NBA championship three times, the most recent in 2008. It also won the Western Conference championship in 2010 and 2011, the first time they had done so since the franchise’s inception. The club has been known as the ‘Los Angeles Clippers’ or ‘The Lob City Clippers’ due to the city’s reputation as a basketball hotbed. They have also been called the ‘San Diego Clippers’ and ‘The San Diego Lakers’ because of their success in the WNBA and WNBA. The city’s previous NBA franchise, the San Dieguito Rockets, had relocated to Houston seven years earlier in 1971. In 1978, San Diego welcomed the relocation of the Braves to San Diego, and a local contest ultimately decided on the name ‘Clippers’ as a reference to the great sailing ships that passed through the city. The Braves were sold to Kentucky Colonels owner John Y. Brown, Jr., who decimated the team’s roster, traded away all of its stars, and drove attendance down to the point where they could break their own lease on the arena. In 1979, the Braves posted a record of 43–39 under new head coach Gene Shue, leaving them two wins shy of the final playoff spot. They also finished second in NBA scoring average, with 28 9 per game, two years before the 76ers acquired World B Free, acquired from the Philadelphia 76ers. In the 1980s, they were also the only team to finish in the top 10 in the Western Division.
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