I dont care...just as long as its in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. SAN DIEGO, ANAHEIM, or Los Angeles' THE FORUM.

I dont care...just as long as its in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. SAN DIEGO, ANAHEIM, or Los Angeles' THE FORUM.

lol the forum??????? hell no id be soo freaking scared to drive to inglewood for clipper games lol

Which Teams Will be Moved?

I live in Inglewood, right near Hollywood Park and the Forum. Ever since the Lakers and Kings left for Staples, the city has been trying to make up that lost revenue by building shopping centers and townhouses next to Hollywood Park. The Forum itself usually sits empty, except for the occassional concerts and filming for TV, movies, and commericals. Up until early this year, the church that currently owns the Forum had their Sunday morning church services, but no more.

However, the Clippers (or another NBA team for that matter) could never move in the Forum as it...in comparsion to Staples Center, the seats at the Forum are too cramped, as well as the concourses. They would spend a lot of money to renovate the Forum to bring it to NBA standards, which would include adding luxury suites, which the Forum never had none of. But, it is an ideal location seeing as that it's not far at all from the team headquarters in Playa Vista...in fact, if you take the major roads heading west from the Forum, it's about 10-15 minutes away.

I would like that too....but I told my Laker friends that and they said..."Hell no...too much Laker history goes in the forum." Which is kinda true.

LOL check this kids take on the CLIPPERS moving

One thing to think about here...Staples Center was built for nearly $400 million, and that was ten years ago. In a market like Los Angeles, and seeing all of the newer arenas across the country being built for nearly as much, all within the last five years or so, the price tag I would imagine would be somewhere around $500 million. We all know that Sterling won't foot the bill himself, and public money (especially here in California) is out of the question, so it would have to take a group of developers and investors to make it happen. The Clips have five years left on their Staples lease, and I don't think Sterling would go through the trouble of paying to get out of the lease.

To answer Trueblood's earlier post regarding what should happen if the Clippers ever abandon the Playa Vista facility...with all of the developments they're building in that area (there's a business park going up right next to the Clipper facility), Sterling could always sell it to the Playa Vista people, and they use it as a neighborhood fitness center or something.

Yeah, the Sonics proposed Renton arena was going to go for around $500 million and the Sacramento arena is said to be even a little higher than that. I have to think that Inglewood would have a similar cost.

That's why I proposed the renovated Forum idea. I think you could do that for around $200 to $300 million plus by being in LA, you could probably get a much better naming rights deal than you can in some of the other small markets in the country.

My thinking would be this. Sterling could take care of $100 million. That's $5 million a year over 20 years, which is what I assume the lease would be for. While he only pays 1.5 million at Staples, he gets hardly any revenue outside of ticket and suite sales. At the new arena, he would more than make up the 3.5 million since he would have control over all revenue that comes through the building, including non Clipper events.

The Warriors get $3 million a year from Oracle while the Nets could get $20 million a year from Barclays if the Brooklyn arena happens. LA is bigger than the bay area but smaller than NY so I'm thinking Sterling could get anywhere from $5 to $10 million a year on naming rights. That takes care of another $100 to $200 million so you've pretty much paid off the building right there. Any cost overruns could be taken care of by the Inglewood general fund. Renton was willing to pitch in $100 million for the arena so I'm sure Inglewood could fit the bill for something minor like $20 million.

Renovations work if done properly with a good lease. Oracle seats almost 20,000 with over 60 suites. Space is limited so you can't have restaurants and stuff like that but Sterling wouldn't care as it saves $300 million to do it this way as opposed to building from scratch. The Warriors have a fair lease with the city of Oakland so they are profitable. Seattle had a horrible lease where the owner not only didn't control revenue, he had to pay mortgage and give a good percentage of seat and suite revenue back to the city. Therefore, you wind up with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The only move that makes sense is to Anaheim. A couple of years ago we played several home games there and they sold out every game. That's something that they rarely do at Staples. The owner and players would not hvae to move, the training facility would still be in use, and it would just be a short jaunt down the freeway to games. But if Sterling was goint to do this, he would have already done it. He wants to stay at Staples. But he has a lot of work to do to get out from underneath the shadow of the most successful franchise in the world.