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 San Diego Clippers (1978-1984)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
One of the Clippers first big moves was the signing of Free Agent World B. Free who finished second in the NBA in scoring with 28.8 ppg.
San Diego was all abuzz as they signed Free Agent Bill Walton away from the Portland Trailblazers.
Following the season the Clippers would set sail for Los Angeles, in the years since the Clippers moved to Los Angeles the NBA has not even considered a return to San Diego.
www.sportsecyclopedia.com /nba/sdclips/sdclippers.html   (739 words)

  
 Los Angeles Clippers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Clippers began in 1970 as the Buffalo Braves.
Brown left the Clippers to join the Indiana Pacers as their head coach, and Bob Weiss was brought in to replace him.
Notoriously, the Clippers drafted Danny Ferry in the 1989 NBA Draft.
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 San Diego   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1847 San Diego was a destination of the 2000 mile march of the Mormon_Battalion which the built the city's first courthouse with brick.
Downtown San Diego is literally the city center as the name "Centre City" implies, as it is located in the heart of San Diego County.
Downtown San Diego is delimited by San Diego Bay to the west, Hillcrest to the north, San Diego Freeway to the west, and National City to the south.
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 San Diego Clippers!
The San Diego Clippers are in the Western League of the American Strat-o-Matic Baseball League.
The Clippers have rebuilt themselves under Hoagland and have a promising young team in the hopes of returning their team to the season 1 ASBL form of being the Pacific Division Champs.
However, San Diego was able to lure him out of retirement (and the grave) to come manage their young ballclub to attain the success that those Yankee teams did.
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 CLIPPERS: The ABC’s of 2003
The Clippers are currently 3rd in the NBA in free throw shooting, connection on over 78% from the charity stripe through December 31st.
Clippers Forward Corey Maggette is having yet another career year this season; his numbers are up in virtually every category and is averaging over 20 ppg.
The Clippers are celebrating twently five years in California this season, as the team moved to San Diego from Buffalo before the 1978-79 season.
www.nba.com /clippers/news/abc_2003.html   (743 words)

  
 Los Angeles Clippers : Clippers Ticket Broker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Later in 1977/1978 season, the team moved to San Diego, California and was renamed as the San Diego Clippers.
The team name is in orientation to the city's history; as a harbor for Clipper ships and the Star of India which was still harbored in San Diego.
The Clippers has used the LA Sports Arena 1984/1985-1998/1999, Arrowhead Pond 1994/1995-1998/1999, sharing the place with other teams including the Mighty Ducks for ice hockey and the Splash of the soccer.
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 Welcome to Kevin's Go Clippers page
The Clippers came into the league as an expansion team in the 1970-71 NBA season but they were known as the Buffalo Braves.
In the 1978-79 season the Braves moved to San Diego and became the San Diego Clippers.
In the 1989 draft the Clippers picked Danny Ferry, but he refused to play with the team so he was traded with Reggie Williams to Cleveland in return for Ron Harper.
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 Padres News: January 2006
San Diego State, an NCAA team in 2002 and NIT entry in 2003, and the University of San Diego, an NCAA team in 2003, are within reach of returns to the postseason.Both schools play in beautiful facilities -- SDSU's Cox Arena and USD's Jenny Craig Pavilion.Or as Bill Walton, San Diego's Mr.
The NCAA awarded San Diego a sub-regional this year after SDSU staged a successful sub-regional in 2001.
Some people will tell you San Diego is a bad basketball town, but they don't know about the Curse of the Bamboozler.
sandiegopadres4.blogspot.com /2006_01_01_sandiegopadres4_archive.html   (927 words)

  
 Nuggets Hope To Stave Off Elimination Against Clippers - NBA - Los Angeles Clippers
In fact, the Clippers, who were the Buffalo Braves until the 1978-79 campaign, were eliminated in the opening round in 1992, 1993 and 1997.
The Braves, who became the San Diego Clippers after the 1977-78 season, defeated the Philadelphia 76ers, 2-1 in the first round of the 1975-76 playoffs for the only series victory in franchise history.
The Clippers, who have lost two straight contests when they have a chance to eliminate their opponent from the playoffs, are 0-5 all-time in Game 5s in the postseason, while the Nuggets have dropped two straight Game 5s.
www.nbcsandiego.com /nba101/9138627/detail.html   (590 words)

  
 CLIPPERS: Clippers History
In the Clippers' first San Diego season, their 43 victories were impressive, but just shy of playoff caliber.
The transition to STAPLES Center resulted in record-breaking attendance marks for the Clippers and the franchise extended their lease for an additional 10 years before the start of the 2004-05 season.
In the summer of 2003, the Clippers inked forwards Elton Brand and Corey Maggette to long-term deals and brought in a former NBA Coach of the Year, Mike Dunleavy, to patrol the sidelines.
www.nba.com /clippers/history/index.html   (708 words)

  
 San Diego Padres : Roster : Broadcasters
Now in his 33rd year as San Diego’s most-outspoken and most-respected radio broadcaster, Leitner’s previous play-by-play credits also include the NFL’s San Diego Chargers and Philadelphia Eagles, the NBA’s San Diego Clippers, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Conneticut and San Diego State University Aztecs football and basketball.
Beloved by fans on both sides of the border, the Tijuana native’s credentials include a season as the voice of the San Francisco Giants in 1991, four years as play-by-play man for the Tijuana Potros of the Mexican Pacifi c Winter League and two seasons broadcasting for Tijuana’s team in the Sonora AA Summer League.
During the summer of 1999 he was awarded the Orden Diego de Lozada by the Mayor of Caracas for his work in Venezuela with the Carlos Hernandez Foundation.
sandiego.padres.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/team/broadcasters.jsp?c_id=sd   (2138 words)

  
 san diego magazine archives
The ABA League team is San Diego’s seventh professional basketball team since the Rockets began here in 1967.
The Clippers, San Diego’s only other NBA franchise, had some of the worst seasons in NBA history.
Pat Mooney, the assistant general manager for the Clippers in 1978, says it was hard to get a fan base here.
www.sandiego-online.com /issues/may01/hoops2.shtml   (796 words)

  
 Journal of San Diego History
IN 1882 THE CONDITION OF SAN DIEGO as regarded tidiness and sanitation, apparently left much to be desired.
A most popular error is that the San Antonio to San Diego mail line of James Birch was the first overland mail service because it was opened the year before the Butterfield route's inauguration.
The contractor for the San Diego-Salt Lake section was George Chorpenning, who had transported the mails from Utah to Northern California in a commendable fashion since getting his first post office contract to do it in 1851.
www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/58july/misc.htm   (1099 words)

  
 San Diego Events, Concerts, & Parties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is surrounded by several dense urban communities and abruptly ends with Mission Valley to the north.Coronado and Point Loma separate San Diego Bay from the ocean.
In June 2004, San Diego was ranked the top biotech cluster in the U.S. by the Milken Institute[citation needed].
Qualcomm Incorporated was founded and is headquartered here, and the company is the county's largest private-sector technology employer (excluding hospitals), with more than 6,000 employees in San Diego.[3] Other companies also have research and development labs in San Diego, principally focused on cloning Qualcomm's CDMA cellular technology.
www.partysandiego.com   (5432 words)

  
 Clippers clinch winning season | The San Diego Union-Tribune
The Clippers (42-29) had only five seasons above.500 since the franchise came into the league as the Buffalo Braves in 1970.
The game was the final meeting between the teams this regular season, and the Clippers won two of three to take the series for the first time since 1985-86.
The Clippers were up 82-69 heading into the fourth quarter and stayed comfortably in front.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060401/news_2s1nbasep.html   (580 words)

  
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A contest was held throughout the San Diego area to help rename the Braves franchise.
The outcome of the contest was the Clippers, which was a reflection of the history of the San Diego harbor.
At the time of his signing, Walton seemed to be the missing link that the Clippers needed to establish themselves as a playoff contender.
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 Buy Cheap Los Angeles Clippers Tickets - Basketball Los Angeles Clippers NBA Tickets
They moved to San Diego, California for the 1977-78 season, and became the San Diego Clippers.
In 1984, the Clippers moved to Los Angeles, California, playing in the LA Sports Arena while the Lakers, with a better reputation, continued to play at the Forum in Inglewood.
The Clippers are sometimes associated with not being adept at basketball.
www.nbaticketsnow.com /los-angeles-clippers-tickets.asp   (261 words)

  
 Journal of San Diego History
Over the years Abe Tokunosuke had gained the support of the major canneries in San Diego.
Abe, pioneer in the establishment of San Diego's tuna industry, at work in his office about 1938.
The launching of one of the world's largest tuna clippers in July 1936.
www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/82fall/offensiveimages.htm   (175 words)

  
 University of San Diego - USD Magazine
Brown, who also was an associate head coach for the Indiana Pacers and an assistant coach with San Antonio, Washington and Denver, immediately hired Hank Egan, who skippered the USD men’s basketball team from 1984 to 1994, as an assistant.
Neal Meyer ’94 is an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Clippers.
James Borrego ’01 is the video coordinator for the San Antonio Spurs.
www.sandiego.edu /publications/usdmagazine/fall2005/athletics4.php   (307 words)

  
 ipayOne Center - History
The roar of 11,682 professional hockey fans gave birth to ipayOne Center (formerly, the San Diego International Sports Center) on November 17, 1966, as the San Diego Gulls-then of the Western Hockey League-won their home opener in a 4-to-1 victory against the Seattle Totems.
Thanks to the vision and commitment of a man named Robert Breitbard, a football hero at Hoover High and San Diego State University, the Center was built for a modest $6.4 million with the purpose of bringing professional sports to the San Diego region.
When the Center celebrated its 35th birthday in 2002, the changes and improvements continued, including completion of the new color theme for each entrance concession stand, new condiment service areas, renovation of the Grille and successful installation of the World-Famous San Diego Zoo and San Diego Wild Animal Park interactive display.
www.sandiegoarena.com /history.php   (510 words)

  
 Suns Attempt To Take 3-1 Lead Over Clippers In West Semis - NBA - Los Angeles Clippers
Elton Brand finished with 20 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in the loss for the Clippers, while Vladimir Radmanovic tallied 18 points, 14 in the fourth, but missed a potential game-tying three-pointer at the buzzer.
The Clippers, who defeated the third-seeded Denver Nuggets in five games in the first round, returned to the playoffs for the first time since the 1996-97 campaign, when they were swept in the opening round by the Utah Jazz, 3-0.
The Braves, who became the San Diego Clippers after the 1977-78 season, defeated the Philadelphia 76ers, 2-1 in the first round of the 1975-76 playoffs.
www.nbcsandiego.com /nba101/9212667/detail.html   (623 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Mr. San Diego   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"San Diego was made for a guy like me," he says.
Two sports: After graduating from Long Beach (Calif.) Polytechnic High in 1977, he bypassed Cal State-Fullerton because the baseball coach wouldn't let him play basketball.
As a point guard, he still holds San Diego State's all-time assists record and was a 10th-round draft pick of the NBA's San Diego Clippers in 1981.
www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/padres/2001-06-27-mr-san-diego.htm   (204 words)

  
 San Diego, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Northeastern: Carmel Mountain Ranch, Miramar, Mira Mesa, Rancho Bernardo, Rancho Peñasquitos, Sabre Springs, San Pasqual Valley, Scripps Ranch, Sorrento Valley, Tierrasanta
The renowned Chino Farms in nearby Rancho Santa Fe provides fresh organic produce both to local restaurants and to restaurants in San Francisco and other cities.
Allied Gardens · Del Cerro · Grantville · Mission Valley · San Carlos · Serra Mesa · Tierrasanta
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 1980 San Diego Clippers - Basketball-Reference.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1980 San Diego Clippers - Basketball-Reference.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)
You Are Here » Basketball-Reference.com > Teams > San Diego Clippers > 1980
Estimated salaries are marked with an asterisk (*).
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