Home venues in Ticket Timeline's game data
Buildings the Clippers have called home in the attendance data Ticket Timeline uses—useful when an old ticket names a former arena or an earlier naming-rights label.
Ticket Timeline's game data covers Clippers home arenas from the Los Angeles era onward, with gaps where source rows do not connect continuously; the franchise's full history dates back to 1970 in Buffalo.
If your ticket says Staples Center or Crypto.com Arena, that's the same building under two different naming-rights labels—not two different arenas.
The Clippers franchise joined the NBA in 1970 as the Buffalo Braves, one of three expansion teams that year alongside the Cleveland Cavaliers and Portland Trail Blazers. After eight seasons in Buffalo, ownership and arena conflicts pushed the team west: it relocated to San Diego in 1978, becoming the San Diego Clippers. In 1984 the franchise moved again, this time to Los Angeles, taking the LA Clippers name it still carries. In Los Angeles, the Clippers first played at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena (1984–1999), then moved into the new downtown arena that opened in 1999 as Staples Center, sharing the building with the Lakers as tenants for over two decades. Staples Center was renamed Crypto.com Arena in December 2021. In August 2024, the Clippers moved out on their own for the first time in franchise history, opening Intuit Dome in Inglewood—the first arena built specifically for the Clippers.
LA Clippers play home games at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, CA, USA. Dates for those nights are anchored in Pacific time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names a former arena or an earlier name of the same building.