Los Angeles Clippers

The Los Angeles Clippers are a smaller US basketball team located in Los Angeles, as compared to the other larger team representing the city, Los Angeles Lakers. The Clippers play as a member of the Pacific Division of the National Basketball Association all over the nba Western Conference. The Clippers play their home games at the Staples Center, an arena that they share with NBA's Los Angeles Lakers sister team, Women's National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Sparks, and National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings. The franchise became known as the Buffalo Braves in 1970, and along with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Portland Trail Blazers, it was one of three expansion franchises to join the NBA that year. The Braves had some improvement and three times they made the postseason, led by Bob McAdoo, the Most Valuable Player Team. Conflicts over the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium and lease transactions with the Canisius Golden Griffins led to their relocation from Buffalo, New York, to San Diego, California. After the move to be known as the San Diego Clippers, in 1978 the franchise was rebranded in reference to the San Diego Bay sailing ships which can be found there. With the arrival in San Diego of the Bill Walton Star Center, who lost almost three complete seasons due to injuries since his retirement, the franchise has made no strides in the area in its six years. In 1981 Donald Sterling, a Los Angeles-based real estate developer, bought the franchise. In 1984, with no NBA consent, Sterling controversially moved the franchise to Los Angeles. Facing fines and a lawsuit brought against NBA league officials attempting to move the league to San Diego, the team eventually prevailed when they remained in Los Angeles where no major regular season or playoff results were made. In American professional athletics, we have also been seen as icons of a chronic disappointment, making false parallels with their previously successful city-rivals, the Lakers. The franchise expanded between 2008 and 2017 by adding stars such as Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan and Chris Paul to it. This lineup has led the Clippers as a perennial playoff franchise nicknamed "Lob City." The club won its first Division title during the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons. They played seven times in the playoffs throughout 2012 and 2019, matching the total of franchise appearances from 1970 to 2011. The Los Angeles Clippers announced a new corporate identity on 18 June 2015. The club's signature logo features a compass-shaped basketball, with the "LAC" ring centre monogram. Below is the wordmark emblem of the club in black, with the two angled lines under the wordmark symbolising the ocean floor, which the club claims applies to its nautical patrimony. The squad revealed their new home and away uniforms that had the theme pattern from previous uniforms preserved. The home white jersey features a black wordmark pattern over the front of the shirt. The away red shirt features a monogram of "LAC" across the right breast of the club, with the player's jersey number across the left breast. On 6 November 2015, the Clippers unveiled a sleek black theme commemorating downtown Los Angeles. The uniform retains the pattern style of the previous uniform but without the wordmark incorporating the club's core logo. On 11 August 2017 the Clippers unveiled their latest branding designs and for the Adidas Project and the Branding. The designations for home and road were dropped, and the team replaced their road red uniform with a new blue "ring" uniform matching the uniform of the white "Association" which was not substituted. Also the mask had remained intact.