LA Clippers Memorabilia

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Founded in 1970 as the Buffalo Braves before relocating to San Diego and changing its name to the Clippers in 1978, the LA Clippers have been playing in Los Angeles since 1984. Treated for years like a poor cousin to the showboating and...
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Founded in 1970 as the Buffalo Braves before relocating to San Diego and changing its name to the Clippers in 1978, the LA Clippers have been playing in Los Angeles since 1984. Treated for years like a poor cousin to the showboating and superstar-filled LA Lakers, the Clippers became a dominant basketball team in the NBA thanks to players such as Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan, and, most recently, former Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard, whose basketball cards and jerseys are currently the most collected Clippers memorabilia. The Buffalo Braves joined the NBA the same year as the Cleveland Cavaliers and Portland Trail Blazers. In Buffalo, the team never finished better than second place in its division, which it accomplished in the 1974-75 season thanks mostly to the coaching of Jack Ramsay, who would coach the Trail Blazers to an NBA Championship in 1977, and the MVP-caliber play of forward Bob McAdoo, who would earn a pair of championship rings in 1982 and 1985 alongside his LA Lakers teammates Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. One of the superstars of Ramsay's championship team in Portland was Bill Walton, who, in 1979, signed with his hometown Clippers. But Walton spent most of his years in San Diego injured, playing only 14 games in his first season there, and missing all of the next two. Alas, Walton was not the only problem to plague the team. Owner Donald Sterling unceremoniously, and without league permission, moved the team to Los Angeles, triggering lawsuits between the real-estate developer and the league that were more interesting to follow than the play of the team on the court. But Sterling would get his own form of karmic payback when, in April 2014, he was banned for life from the NBA for documented, racist behavior. Within just a few months, the team Sterling had purchased for $12.5 million in 1982 was sold to former Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer for $2 billion. On the court, though, the team was finally starting to gel....
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