1970-7 1 During the season, as the first owner of the Buffalo Warriors, paul schneider appointed the NBA historical superstar Dolph Shayes as the Warriors coach in the first season. But the composition of the team members is chaotic, including Bob Kaufman, a 6-foot-8 center from the Bulls, averaging 4.3 points per game. Knicks forward Don May averaged 2.6 points per game; Los Angeles Lakers guard Eldo Gallette; Emmette Bryant from Celtic; There is also a rookie striker John Hammer who graduated from Princeton University.
This season, the team ended the debut season of 1970-7 1 with a record of 22 wins and 60 losses and the last place in the Atlantic Division. But in the first season, the Warriors produced a pair of players who averaged 20+ per game, namely Bob Kaufman (20.4) and Don May (20.2). Among them, this is the only season in Tang Mei's 7-year career that scored in double figures.
197 1-72 season, the Warriors welcomed two rookie players named Smith in the second season, namely center elmore Smith. His rookie averaged 15.2 rebounds and contributed 17.3 points per game, ranking sixth in the league. The other is Randy Smith, who averaged 13.4 points in the forward position. At the same time, the team also got a walt hazzard with seven years' experience from Atlanta Hawks, who dedicated his last full season to the brave team. Hazard averaged 65,438+05.8 points per game and contributed the team's highest 5.6 assists. In this game, the Braves' overall performance is still weak, with the average score (102.2) ranking first in the league, and the average number of assists per game ranking second to last. The record of 22 wins and 60 losses ended the second season.
1972-73 season, the Warriors won the most proud player, bob mcadoo. However, Maka Du Yi can't change the plight of the Warriors at all. Under the command of new coach Jack Ramsey, the Braves actually fell behind the record of 197 1-72 season by 1 game, with only 2 1 win. What is even more ridiculous is that seven of the Warriors' 265,438+0 victories were won by the poor Philadelphia 76ers, who lost 9-73. But in the first season, McAdoo averaged 18.0 points and 9. 1 rebounds. At the end of the season, he was awarded the honor of best rookie of the year.
1973-74 season, Buffalo Warriors became the biggest dark horse in the league. The team made a gambling deal, trading young center Elmer Smith to the Lakers, and got the standard small forward Jim McMillan who averaged at least 18 points in the previous two seasons. The deal allowed coach Ramsey to liberate mcadoo to the center position. At the same time, the team supplemented Garfield Hurd in the position of power forward, and got the rookie Ernie Docrates Gaurio in the position of point guard.
This season, the Buffalo Warriors achieved an excellent record of 42 wins and 40 losses and entered the playoffs for the first time in history. Bob mcadoo won the annual scoring champion with 30.6 points per game, and ranked third in the league with 15. 1 rebounds per game. Ernie Docrates Gaurio became the second best rookie with 8.2 assists per game. In the first round of the playoffs, it faced a powerful Boston. In the case that both sides won two of the first four games, the more experienced Celtic won the fifth and sixth games in a row and won the final victory.
In the season of 1974-75, the Buffalo Warriors struggled with injuries, but this did not prevent the team from continuing to write brilliant chapters in the glory of 1973. The key players of the three teams all suffered from different degrees of injuries: Garfield Hurd missed 15 games, Jim Mcmilian missed 20 games, and Ernie Docrates Gaurio directly missed 5 1 game. However, due to mcadoo's outstanding performance in the center position, the Buffalo Warriors are still considered as an offensive team to be reckoned with. The team ended the regular season with a record of 49 wins and 33 losses, ranking second in the Atlantic Division. The playoffs continued to advance, and the Eastern Conference semifinals lost 3-4 to bullets.
1975 to 1980
1975-76 season, Buffalo Warriors accumulated dazzling numbers in attack. After the end of the season, the Warriors team ranked second in the league in scoring, assists and shooting percentage. The Buffalo Warriors entered the playoffs with 46 wins and 36 losses, tied with the Philadelphia 76ers for the second place in the Atlantic Division, and narrowly won by 1 point in the third game of the first round, but the Warriors lost to the Celtics 2-4 in the Eastern Conference semifinals and were eliminated.
During the season of 1976-77, john brown, the former owner of Kentucky High School in ABA League, bought 50% of the shares of Brave Team from Paul Snyder, and later bought the rest of his shares. John brown should spend $62 million to buy this team. However, according to the purchase contract, if John Brown sells any player of the Warriors, the money will belong to Paul Snyder. In exchange, john brown's acquisition of the team was reduced.
1976-77 season, the new owner sold the team's signature player bob mcadoo to the new york Knicks for $3 million. From a purely commercial point of view, this transaction saved john brown $2 million for buying a 50% stake in the Warriors, but from the team's point of view, it was disastrous. This season, the team has changed three coaches, and it can't change the failure result of ranking fourth in the Atlantic Division with 30 wins and 52 losses.
1977-78 season, the Warriors fell into a painful quagmire on the basketball court. The team appointed a new head coach, cotton fitzsimmons, and traded adrian dantley to the Pacers for billy knight. The Warriors also traded george johnson to the New Jersey Nets and won nathaniel archibald, one of the top 50 NBA50 superstars. However, archibald was reimbursed for a torn Achilles tendon in pre-season training camp. Finally, the team ended the regular season with 27 wins and 55 losses.
1 In June, 1978, NBA bosses voted by 2 1 vote pair1vote to pass the resolution that the Buffalo Warriors moved to San Diego and renamed the team the San Diego Clippers, and also agreed to let John Brown exchange teams with Ilf Levin.
1980 to 1988
198 1, the San Diego clippers are almost forgotten, and the team's attendance rate is even only a quarter (4500 people) of UCLA, a famous university basketball school. The fare dropped below 10, and no one asked. Owner Ilf Levin's jeweler background is doomed to be unable to control this NBA team. From Buffalo in the northeast to San Diego in the southwest, the only constant is the declining box office and the constant loss. With the aging of Bill Walton, the Clippers have fallen into the abyss.
1982, 46-year-old Don Sterling made the most important decision in his life, which instantly raised his popularity by hundreds of times-successfully acquired Ilf Levin's San Diego Clippers with $20 million just found in real estate business, thus turning a new page for this rolling in the deep team.
1984, the team that moved to Los Angeles was renamed the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers, who just arrived, settled in the memorial arena next to the University of Southern California, and made the first deal since they moved, in exchange for Marques Johnson, bridgman Jr. and Harvey Carkins of Milwaukee Bucks, bringing fresh blood to the team where the veteran retired recruits have not arrived. The Clippers, led by head coach Jim Linham, won the regular season with scores of 3 1 and 5 1 respectively. In the first year of moving to Los Angeles, the team's record only improved by one win, and it still missed the playoffs. In addition, veteran Bill Walton was forced to retire this year due to injuries and other reasons.
1985-86 season, the Clippers once again improved a victory when the main players were full, but in 1986-87 season, because of the continuous injuries of the main players, the Clippers created the second worst record in the league history. Injuries to Marques Johnson and point guard Norm Nixon pushed the team to the brink. Even if the ticket price is low, the enthusiasm of blue-collar workers is not high, and the Clippers have become a team that makes the whole league smile. Norm nixon's injury has nothing to do with basketball. While vacationing in new york, he sprained his knee in a softball game and missed the whole season of 1986-87. Sterling, who also encountered difficulties in business, could not take care of the management of the Clippers. Retired as a part-time general manager and hired former Lakers star Elgin Baylor as the vice chairman and general manager of the team. This move became the only gain of the Clippers.
Because the team's performance is at the bottom, the Clippers can harvest 65,438+0 and 2 first-round rookies every year, but Sterling rejected these rookies with his unique and stingy eyes, which later proved that these rookies have great potential. The evacuated Clippers continued the bad record of 1987-88 season.
From 1988 to 1993 and 1988, the Clippers selected the No.1 scholar danny manning, and he quickly selected the swingman charles smith of the University of Pittsburgh on 14. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the 1988-89 season, Danny Manning suffered a knee injury, and the teams with small forwards Reggie Williams and Charles Smith as the main scoring points experienced another bad season. Even if danny manning came back at the end of the game, it only added four more victories (2 1 win, 6 1 loss) for the Clippers. 1989-90 season, the clippers composed of young people gave up their defense while choosing the tactics of running and bombing. The average score of four players in the team (Manning, Harper, Smith and Kenneth Darnel Norman) is above 15, but the points lost in each game are close to 1 10, which makes the team only improve six games and end the 1989-90 season with 30 wins and 52 losses.
199 1-92 season, the team recruited Larry Brown from the Spurs, who got into a fight because of management problems and the use of stars. Brown, who is new here, starts with defense, no longer breaks fast, and gradually changes the team from a projective team to a tactical team. In the second half of the season when Brown took over, the Clippers scored 23 wins 12 losses, plus coach Shuler's 22 wins and 25 losses, and finally ended the regular season journey with 45 wins and 37 losses. The Clippers successfully entered the playoffs for the first time in the 199 1-92 season. In the playoffs, the Clippers eliminated small forward Jeff Malone and power forward Karl Malone and Jazz led by John stockton with a total score of 1-4.
1992-93 season, the Clippers' winning percentage did not improve as expected, but it was not affected by the departure of ace player Charles Smith from the Knicks. With a winning percentage of 465,438+0,465,438+0, only 50%, the Clippers surpassed the noble team in the same city-the Lakers for the first time. However, the team still did not break through the first round of the playoffs and was easily taken by Olajuwon in five games with the Rockets. Larry Brown, who lost patience and hoped for a change of scenery, also moved eastward to Indianapolis Pacers after this season and became the coach of Pacers.
1993 to 1997
1993-94 season, the arrival of new coach Bob Weiss did not stop the team's downward trend. Sterling, who saw that things were not good, might be too worried about the team's profit and loss, and even chose to trade Danny Manning, a star who was almost full-time in the first half. A season later, he gave Ron Harper, whose data dropped slightly, to the Bulls. The Clippers then plummeted and returned to the bottom of the Pacific Division, far away from more than two seasons, with 27 wins and 55 losses.
In order to continue to reduce expenses, the boss Sterling began to participate in Baylor's team management. The clippers who moved to Honda Center have become a heterogeneous group far away from the city, and only share the venue rental fee with Anaheim Night Duck in the same city. The perfect balance sheet every year has not attracted the praise of colleagues in the alliance, but has been replaced by endless condemnation and sarcasm, which has produced the title of the least angry boss in the alliance.
1994 draft, the Clippers were basically emptied in Murray, and Lamond, who was selected fourth in the first round, and Bill Fitch, who just led the Nets into the playoffs for two consecutive years, took over as the team coach. Old Bill made a drastic reform in the face of this team full of minor league free agents and young rookies, and adopted a lot of position tactics that Walter and Murray combined inside and outside, but the seemingly reasonable tactical system was ineffective because of Walter's rough skills and Murray's unstable shooting.
1994-95 season, Clippers won 17. Poor grades didn't change Sterling's stingy heart. While the fans were expecting the arrival of Antonio McDesi, the first-class power forward of the University of Alabama, who won the second place in 1995, the team owner changed hands and traded McDesi to Denver.
1995-96 season, Clippers scored 29 wins and 53 losses. However, in the 1996-97 season, due to the full-scale outbreak in the east and the overall record decline in the west, the Clippers, who had no hope of entering the playoffs, suddenly saw the dawn at the end of the season. After seven years in the league, Walter, who worked hard for the Clippers every minute, finally brought the team into the playoffs again on his own. The team's record in the 1996-97 season was only 36 wins and 46 losses. But in the playoff game against King stockton, he was swept out by 3-0.
1997-200 1 year
The Clippers, who have never been silent in the draft, 1996 won two future stars inside, Lorenzen Wright and Keith Cross. In the draft of 1997, the team chose power forward Morris Taylor in the first round of 14, which is not very high. 1994, Eric Piater, the rookie pitcher of 15 saved by the team for the future, also gradually made achievements, replacing Murray and Lamond. However, in the 1997-98 season, because of the sad departure of many veterans and the abandonment of Bill Fitch, the ending was tragic. 17 wins and 65 losses made the Clippers lose their skills overnight.
In the 1998-99 season, after bill fitch left office, Chris Ford took over the team. In this short season, the outstanding performances of Jeremy Taylor and Eric Piater Kosky did not drive the team's record. The Clippers won the worst team in the league with a record of 9 wins, 4 1 loss.
1In June, 1999, the Clippers successfully selected Lamar Odom in the 4th overall draft. At the same time, dennis johnson, a meritorious player who retired from the Sonics, was hired as a full-time coach, and the team moved to a new home, Staples, to enjoy this luxurious basketball field with the Lakers.
1999-00 season, the team suffered heavy injuries. After a season, the record still hasn't improved. In 2000-0 1 season, the team suffered a blow from the loss of Lamar Odom (suspected of smoking marijuana).
At the beginning of 200 1, corey maggette, the main player of Duke in Florida Sunshine, was brought to Staples. The first draft pick obtained through this transaction makes the Clippers the first point guard Keane Durin who can keep up appearances since Ron Harper 1994. In addition, the team selected two talented players through the first round draft, namely Darius Myers from East St. Louis University and Quentin Richardson, a freshman in Sao Paulo. These two newcomers with excellent jumping skills have provoked the backbone of the team's third position, and a series of changes have also made the Clippers a veritable strong young defender. Although they were still only 365,438+0 wins and 565,438+0 losses at the end of the season, they averaged 37 points on the bench and the team scored more than 100 points per game, which showed the madness of young people to the whole league.
200 1 to 2005
Before the start of the 200 1-02 season, the Clippers made a deal with the Bulls with Tai Sen Chandler, the second show in his hand, and got Elton Brand, the power forward wizard coveted by the whole league. In the 200 1-02 season, the young people who made people shine almost reached the top of the team. With one month left in the regular season, the team's winning percentage has recovered to more than 50%. Johnson, who was promoted to head coach, gave up his regular position to play, and the new flag of running and bombing made the Clippers one of the most ornamental teams in the league. But April's 3 wins 13 losses taught the Clippers a great lesson. It is really appropriate to describe the Clippers, which have improved greatly this season. The Clippers' final record was 39 wins and 43 losses, but they still missed the playoffs.
In the following two seasons, in March 2002 and April 2003, darius miles, who was too thin and always troubled by injuries, was sent to Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for a new assistant, andre miller, to reinforce the position of starting point guard. However, Miller's arrival did not bring immediate results to the team. Lamar Odom's mid-season injuries, Corey Maghetti's and Elton Brand's early injuries and so on. The main players missed 293 games. Suffering from injuries and lacking team chemistry, the Clippers, under the command of alvin gentry, who replaced Johnson as head coach, scored only 27 wins and 55 losses.
In the 2003-04 season, although Chris Kaman, a promising young center, was selected as the sixth in the first round, it did not change the team's dilemma. Because too many first-round rookies have been selected since entering the 2 1 century, Sterling and Baylor must selectively renew their contracts among so many promising rookies. In the end, Andre Miller, Lamar Odom, Michael olowokandi and Eric Piater Kosky, the longest-serving veteran in the team's history, all left the team without renewing their contracts, all in order to keep Elton Brand, who is known as the new captain, with a huge contract of 82.2 million yuan. The Clippers' record has been sluggish this season, with only 28 wins and 54 losses.
In the 2004-05 season, the team reform led by the former pioneer Deng Liwei began to reshape the team's offensive and defensive system, and achieved initial results. Shaun livingston, the fourth rookie who was selected in that year, began to challenge the authority of the league with Duke Brothers, and once again returned to his position and combined with the Clippers' fast-break tactics to burst into powerful fighting capacity. Bobby Simmons, the fastest growing player in the league this season, can contribute to the team 16 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists per game, which makes up for the loss of Richardson to the greatest extent. In the end, the Clippers ended the regular season with 37 wins and 45 losses, but only one step away from entering the playoffs again.
2005 to 20 10
In the 2005-06 season, the Clippers traded Chris willcocks for Vladimir Rad Manovic, a small forward from Serbia and Montenegro, who was famous for his long-range shooting at the supersonic speed, improving the team's troublesome outside shooting rate. 1996-97 By June 2005, the Clippers, who had been away from the playoffs for nine years, stood on the court again in May with a record of 47 wins and 35 losses in the regular season, and squeezed into the top four of the league out of control, ensuring the home court advantage in the first round. However, in the second round of the playoffs, it was eliminated by the Phoenix Suns with a total score of 4-3 and missed the Western Conference finals.
In the 2006-07 season, Clippers will compete with Lakers, Golden State Warriors and New Orleans Hornets for the seventh and eighth seed positions. For most of this season, the Clippers stayed in the top eight, but losing to the weak Sacramento King at home was fatal. Although the team saved their lives by beating the Suns in Phoenix two days later, in the last game of the season, the Warriors won, and the Clippers lost to the Hornets at home. The Clippers missed the playoffs after the Warriors and the Lakers were two goals apart.
In the 2007-08 season, Al Thornton, a mature talented player with NBA strength, was selected with the draft right of 14. But in August, he suffered the biggest loss. All-Star power forward elton brand tore his achilles tendon while training in the team's training hall. The injury didn't stop the Clippers from getting off to a good start. Chris Kaman scored 26 points 18 rebounds in the opener to help the team beat the Golden State Warriors. In the end, the Clippers ended the season with 23 wins and 59 losses. The biggest highlight of this season is Marcus Thornton, who scored more than 30 points in a single game three times in the second half of the season, and his average score in the whole season is second only to Kevin Durant, the rookie of the year in Seattle.
In the 2009- 10 season, the Clippers won the lottery in 2009 and selected Blake Griffin, but Griffin became the second champion in the last three seasons who didn't play for a minute in the whole rookie season. The Clippers have a poor record this season, only 29 wins and 53 losses. FIC (a method of ranking teams through various data) ranks low: 25, and the scoring efficiency is low: 28.
20 10 to 20 15
In the 20 10- 1 1 season, the team's opening performance was only 1 win 13 negative. When the audience thought that the Clippers would spend another season in the dark, Blake Griffin activated the Clippers. Griffin relied on his super-explosive physical strength and terrible inside lethality to help the Clippers beat the Heat, Lakers and other strong teams with 17. However, due to injury, the team was forced to score 32 wins and 50 losses. But in terms of players, Griffin became the first rookie in the All-Star Game after Yao Ming in 2003, averaging 22.5 points, 12.65, 438+0 rebounds and 3.8 assists. The dunk like a beast has become the most beautiful scenery in the league, and mozgov has also become synonymous with cycling dunk, and the leap of a car in this season's dunk contest has gone down in history.
In the season of 20 1 1- 12, Chris Paul joined the team, and the duo with No.1 pick Blake Griffin brought great pleasure to the fans, winning the nickname of "airdrop city" for the Los Angeles Clippers and making the team enter the playoffs. In the first round, Grizzly Bear, who staged the Black Eight Miracle 20 1 1, was eliminated with 4 wins and 3 losses. However, in the semi-final of the Western Conference, he encountered the spurs of the four-time champion and was finally swept in straight sets.
During the 20 12-20 13 season, the Clippers ranked third in the West with a record of 57 wins and 25 losses. However, in April of 20 14, Sterling was abused by blacks, and the league forced the Sterling family to sell the team and fined 2.5 million US dollars. Earlier, Shelley Sterling and the Sterling Family Trust had reached an agreement with steve ballmer, a former Microsoft official, to sell the Clippers at a record price of $2 billion. In the first round of the playoffs, he played six games with the Grizzlies, and finally lost to his opponent with a total score of 2-4, stopping the first round of the playoffs.
20 13- 14 season, March 6, 20 14, the clippers played against the old rival Lakers in the same city, scoring 73 points in the first half. In the end, 142-94 beat the Lakers by nearly 48 points, and 142 points was also a record high for the Clippers. This season, the Clippers won the Pacific Division championship in Lianzhuang, and entered the playoffs again with the third seed. The first round met the Golden State Warriors, and the first six games were tied. In the seventh game, the Clippers finally defeated their opponents and advanced to the next round. The western conference finals met with thunder. Although Paul took the lead in the first game and the home fans of Thunder were silent, they were defeated by Thunder with a total score of 2-4 and missed the finals.
In the 20 14-20 15 season, the Clippers' record was 56 wins and 26 losses, ranking third in the West and second in the Pacific Division, plus seven wins in April and 700 wins in the coaching career of head coach Rivers. In the first round of the playoffs, the opponent happened to be the defending champion San Antonio Spurs. In the end, they played all seven games and advanced to the next round with 4-3. However, in the Western Conference semifinals, the Clippers were promoted to the Western Conference Championship by the Rockets with a lead of 3- 1, and were eliminated in the Western Conference semifinals for two consecutive seasons.