clippershistory.com is an independent, fan-built record of the Clippers franchise, from Buffalo in 1970 to Inglewood today. We are not affiliated with the team or the NBA. We are just the people in the seats, writing things down.
What we are trying to do
- Make the history easy. Anyone, a ten year old or a grandparent, should be able to understand this franchise in five minutes and fall down the rabbit hole for five hours.
- Grow the fan base. Every kid in LA and the San Gabriel Valley deserves to know there is a team here you can get in on the ground floor of.
- Keep the record honest. The 12-70 season and the 50-win surprises get the same plain telling. Self-awareness is our love language. We live in the shadow of another team's banners and we are genuinely fine.
- Save the good stories. The quiet, decent, human stuff that databases cannot hold, like the Kim Hughes story. That is what the newsletter is for.
House rules
- Every page answers its question in the first sentence, then goes deep.
- Corrections are welcomed, fast, and credited. Fix the record here.
- Games and simulators are clearly labeled fan speculation, always.
- We reference real players and events for historical context only, and every page carries the independence disclaimer.
How photos work here
Sports photos are a licensing minefield, so we keep it simple and clean. We only publish images we have clear rights to: photos fans took themselves and contributed with permission, openly licensed images from sources like Wikimedia Commons with full attribution, and our own original graphics. Contributors keep ownership of their photos, grant us a non-exclusive right to display them with credit, and can ask us to take them down at any time. If you see your photo here without credit, tell us and we will fix it the same day.
Supporting the site
The site is free and the history always will be. As we grow, support will come from things that add to the record instead of gating it, like the Founders' Wall, a permanent page where a small one-time contribution engraves your name and your fan-since year into the site's history. Coming soon. No memberships, no paywalls on the past.
One more way we keep the lights on: some outbound links, like the books on the Required Reading page and occasional ticket links, are affiliate links. If you buy through them, this site may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, clippershistory.com earns from qualifying purchases. Affiliate links are marked, we only recommend things we would tell a friend to buy anyway, and no history content will ever be shaped by a commission.
Who runs this
clippershistory.com is owned and run by Peter Kim, a Clippers fan since 1990, which means Sports Arena years, Danny Manning's knee, and every bit of the long wait. Peter also makes videos with his wife on the Peter & Lisa Kim YouTube channel and writes about the best eats in the San Gabriel Valley at eatinsgv.com. Same energy in all three places: love the local thing properly.
Say hey
Questions, stories, corrections, or a good clip for the newsletter: hello@clippershistory.com. If you made it this far down the page, you are exactly who this site is for.