Los Angeles Clippers Milestones

Order these Los Angeles Clippers franchise moments by the year they happened. You place all 25 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Los Angeles Clippers Milestones
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How to play the Los Angeles Clippers history timeline

Clippers milestones make up this deck, each with a short description, and you put them in order by the year they happened. You begin with one card on the line and its year showing. Every new card goes into the gap you choose. A right answer reveals the year and keeps the card in place; a wrong answer moves it to its correct spot and costs you one of three lives.

This franchise played in two other cities before Los Angeles, and the deck spends real time there, including a string of individual honors for one early star that are hard to tell apart. Elsewhere you'll find lean years, high draft picks, an ownership change and a push toward contention with star signings. The draft cards are the usual trouble, since the team picked high often and the era isn't always obvious.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Founded as the Buffalo Braves Joined the NBA as an expansion team in western New York
  • Drafted Bob McAdoo Took the North Carolina center second overall
  • Bob McAdoo named Rookie of the Year Braves' second-year scoring big man won the debut honor
  • Bob McAdoo won his first scoring title Braves center led the league in points
  • Bob McAdoo named MVP High-scoring center won the league's top individual honor
  • Bob McAdoo won a third straight scoring title Braves center topped the league in points once more
  • Relocated to San Diego Franchise moved west and became the Clippers
  • Signed Bill Walton Hometown former MVP joined the San Diego club
  • Drafted Terry Cummings Second overall pick became Rookie of the Year
  • Relocated to Los Angeles Franchise moved up the coast to share a city with the Lakers
  • Hired Elgin Baylor as general manager Hall of Fame player took over front-office duties
  • Drafted Danny Manning Took the Kansas star first overall
  • Drafted Michael Olowokandi Took the Pacific center first overall
  • Drafted Lamar Odom Selected the Rhode Island forward fourth overall
  • Acquired Elton Brand Traded for the young Bulls big man
  • Drafted Chris Kaman Central Michigan center taken sixth overall
  • First playoff series win in Los Angeles Sam Cassell and Elton Brand won a first-round series
  • Drafted Blake Griffin Took the Oklahoma forward first overall
  • Traded for Chris Paul The 'Lob City' era began with the star point guard
  • Hired Doc Rivers Former Celtics champion coach took charge
  • Sterling banned, Ballmer buys in A lifetime ban preceded the former Microsoft CEO's record purchase
  • Re-signed DeAndre Jordan Center reversed a decision to leave for Dallas
  • Signed Kawhi Leonard Reigning Finals MVP joined alongside a Paul George trade
  • Reached the Western Conference Finals Kawhi Leonard and Paul George led a first-ever conference finals
  • Intuit Dome opened Moved into an Inglewood arena of their own

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