Our younger readers may not know that in 1978, the owners of the Celtics and the Buffalo Braves—both crazy guys who made bad personnel decisions and didn’t really belong in the NBA—somehow convinced the league to let them swap franchises. The owner who ended up with the Braves—a guy named Irv Levin—moved the Buffalo franchise to Los Angeles San Diego and renamed them the Clippers. As part of the transaction, the Clips (sorta) blew a chance to land the right to the C’s 1978 draft pick that became Larry Bird.
Why is this relevant?
It’s not really. But I thought of the C’s/Clips connection last night when I checked the box scores from the teams’ Friday night games. The C’s hit 58.4 percent from the floor, and since 2007, Boston has won every game in which they’ve hit at least 57 percent of their field goal attempts, according to Basketball Reference. (Record: 14-0).
The Clippers shot 57.5 percent from the floor and Friday and lost to Charlotte by eight.
For the season, teams leaguewide are now 74-7 in games in which they hit at least 57 percent of their shots, according to BR.
The Clippers are responsible for two of those seven losses.
Happy Saturday.
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He moved then to San Diego. Sterling move them to LA. but they start to suck as soon as they left Bufallo.
The Pacers beat the Clippers in November even though Indy shot 37.6%. It was one of the worst games I’ve ever seen. Clipps shot 32.2%. There were 107 rebounds.
@Filipe–don’t know how I messed that up, having just been reading about it for various reasons. Thanks.
Ahhh, John Y. Brown, JR. Made nearly a billion on KFC franchises, bought Caesar’s Palace, then got into the NBA for the fun of it. Luckily for Celtics fans, he decided to go into politics and became governor of my fair Bluegrass State.
Oh yeah, did I mention that he was connected to one of the largest drug-smuggling ventures in US history? Food for thought.