| Los Angeles Clippers Awesomeseating.com is your go-to broker for NBA tickets. Whether you’re looking for cheap seats behind the back boards, a luxury sky-box or something closer to court-level, we’re your Awesome ticket broker for Los Angeles Clippers Tickets for the regular season and Los Angeles Clippers Playoff Tickets. Team History The Los Angeles Clippers started life in 1970 as the Buffalo Braves, one of three expansion franchises the NBA added in the 1970–71 season. The others were the Portland Trail Blazers and the Cleveland Cavaliers. After years of financial problems due to low tickets sales, the NBA allowed the franchise to be moved to San Diego in 1978. They only stayed till 1984. The poor tickets sales gremlin apparently made the trip from Buffalo: in 1983-84 attendance averaged 4500 a game. Owner Donald Sterling, an LA real estate developer and attorney, successfully lobbied the NBA to move the team to his hometown. The Clippers are a hard-luck franchise, with a historical winning percentage of .364 as of the completion of the 2007-08 regular season. In the club’s 38 years it has only made the playoffs seven times. The most recent appearance was 2005-06, when the Clippers went 47-35 to make the NBA playoffs for the first time since 1997. After knocking off Denver in the first round the team lost a seven game Western Conference Semifinal series to Phoenix. Nothing has gone right since. The Clippers fell to last place in the Pacific Division in 2008 with a record of 23-59. Head coach and GM of the Los Angeles Clippers is Michael Joseph Dunleavy, Sr., father of Michael Joseph Dunleavy, Jr., of the Indianapolis Pacers. Dunleavy Senior was 1999’s NBA Coach of the Year in 1999. He’s a quality coach who started as an NBA head coach with the LA Lakers in 1990 and led the team to the 1991 NBA Finals against the Chicago Bulls in his first season. The Lakers lost in 5. After an early exit from the 1992 playoffs Dunleavy resigned from the Lakers to accept the head coaching job for the Milwaukee Bucks. After an unspectacular 5 seasons he left Milwaukee to become head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers in 1997. He got the team to the playoffs four times, but never made it far and was fired at the end of the 2000-01 season. He joined the Clippers in 2003 and was talked about for the 2006 NBA Coach of the Year award that eventually went to Avery Johnson. 2008-2009 The 2008-2009 NBA Los Angeles Clippers bear little resemblance to last season’s team. Elton Brand and Corey Maggette are gone along with several others. Ten new players have been added, including the Portland Trail Blazers’ second-round pick, Mike Taylor. The blockbuster move was the acquisition of forward–center Marcus Camby from the Denver Nuggets. The Clippers also acquired guard Jason Hart from the Utah Jazz. This is a team determined to change its fortunes and we have cheap Los Angeles Clippers tickets available now. The Los Angeles Clippers are in the Northwest Division of the 3-division Western Conference of the National Basketball Association. Awesomeseating.com offers cheap tickets and luxury tickets for all NBA teams. We have NBA Playoff Tickets as soon as the playoff situation finalizes. Buy your cheap tickets to Los Angeles Clippers basketball from your trusted ticket broker right now. |