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3 unusual facts about Los Angeles Clippers


Carl E. Douglas

On February 12, 2009, it was reported that Douglas and Baylor would be suing the Los Angeles Clippers and the NBA, alleging race and age discrimination issues in the Clippers franchise.

Cartman Finds Love

When Cartman learns that Kyle and Nichole have gone to a Nuggets-Clippers game together, he goes to the arena, and makes an impassioned plea on the arena's jumbotron for couples to recognize the importance of perseverance in their relationships, telling the audience that they should not let society dictate who they should be with, masking it as a plea to Kyle to not give up on their "relationship".

Jasmine Villegas

Her first professional singing gig was at age 11, when she performed the national anthem for the Los Angeles Clippers.


1977–78 Boston Celtics season

NBA lawyer (and future commissioner) David Stern offered a comprise in which Levin and Brown would swap franchises, so that Levin could take over the Braves and move them to San Diego.

2009–10 Cleveland Cavaliers season

On February 17, the Cavaliers completed a three-team trade with the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Clippers, acquiring Antawn Jamison from Washington and Sebastian Telfair from L.A. The Cavs sent Zydrunas Ilgauskas to the Wizards, plus a first round draft pick in 2010 and the rights to Emir Preldžić.

Del Taco

In an effort to improve its reputation, Del Taco launched a sports-sponsorship program with teams in eight U.S. states, including the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Phoenix Coyotes hockey teams, basketball’s Los Angeles Clippers and Utah Jazz, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas’s football and basketball teams, and several minor league hockey and baseball teams.

KBEH

The original owner, Don Sterling (no relation to the Los Angeles Clippers owner of the same name), fighting ongoing losses, sold the station in 1988 to billionaire Meshulam Riklis, the then-husband of actress Pia Zadora.

LaMarcus Aldridge

On March 31, 2007, in the first quarter against the Los Angeles Clippers, Aldridge was taken to Providence Hospital in Portland for shortness of breath and irregular heartbeat.

UCLA Bruins men's basketball

Seven of Lavin’s former Bruin recruits became roster members of NBA teams: Trevor Ariza (Washington Wizards), Matt Barnes (Los Angeles Clippers), Baron Davis, Dan Gadzuric, Ryan Hollins (Los Angeles Clippers), Jason Kapono (Panathinaikos B.C.), and Earl Watson (Utah Jazz).


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Arash Markazi

When Markazi took Sports Illustrated swimsuit models Damaris Lewis and Kate Upton to the Los Angeles Clippers-Oklahoma City Thunder game on April 2, 2011, he helped catapult Upton’s popularity when he recorded her doing The Dougie and posted it on his Twitter.

Ernest Vandeweghe

Kiki Vandeweghe (born 1958), his son, former basketball player for the Denver Nuggets, Portland Trail Blazers, New York Knicks and Los Angeles Clippers

Warren Harding High School

Charles Smith (1985), played basketball for New York Knicks, Los Angeles Clippers,Florida Beachdogs & San Antonio Spurs.