Editing Los Angeles Clippers (section)

====Move to Intuit Dome====
[[File:Intuit Dome Façade.jpg|thumb|right|[[Intuit Dome]] became the home of the Clippers in 2024]]
On June 15, 2017, the Clippers and the city of [[Inglewood, California|Inglewood]] entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement in which the team built a new privately funded arena, [[Inglewood Basketball and Entertainment Center]], by 2024, when the Clippers' lease with Crypto.com Arena expired.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/report-clippers-closing-in-on-deal-to-build-new-nba-arena-in-inglewood/|title=Report: Clippers closing in on deal to build new NBA arena in Inglewood|date=June 14, 2017|work=CBS Sports|access-date=June 15, 2017|archive-date=June 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170618061013/http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/report-clippers-closing-in-on-deal-to-build-new-nba-arena-in-inglewood/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-inglewood-clippers-vote-20170615-story.html|title=Forum accuses Inglewood and Clippers of 'backroom dealing' in agreement to explore building new arena|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=June 15, 2017|access-date=June 15, 2017|archive-date=June 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616082536/http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-inglewood-clippers-vote-20170615-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The arena is located at [[Century Boulevard]] between Yukon and Prairie Avenues, directly south of [[SoFi Stadium]], the home of the [[Los Angeles Rams]] and [[Los Angeles Chargers]] of the [[National Football League]]. The arena also houses a practice facility and team headquarters for the Clippers, as [[Los Angeles Clippers Training Center|the team's former practice facility]] in Los Angeles' [[Playa Vista, Los Angeles|Playa Vista]] neighborhood is still owned by the [[Donald Sterling|Sterling Family Trust]], and is leased back to the team. The Inglewood city council unanimously voted for the agreement in which a subsidiary of the Clippers purchased 22 acres covering four large city blocks in what is largely a lower-class/lower-middle-class residential neighborhood (Century to the north, 104th Street to the south, Doty to the east, and Prairie to the west) to build the new facility.

The planned arena was met with immediate opposition from [[The Forum (Inglewood, California)|the nearby Forum]] and its operator, [[the Madison Square Garden Company]] (parent company of the [[New York Knicks]]), as they accused both the Clippers and the Inglewood city government of "backroom dealing" and the fear that a new Clippers' arena would siphon events from the recently renovated sports arena-turned-concert venue. In March 2020, [[Steve Ballmer]], owner of the Clippers, reached an agreement with the Madison Square Garden Company to buy The Forum, eliminating any opposition related to the construction of the Clippers' new arena.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Newcomb |first1=Tim |title=Steve Ballmer Buys The Forum For $400 Million, Clearing Path For New LA Clippers Arena |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/timnewcomb/2020/03/25/steve-ballmer-buys-the-forum-clearing-path-toward-new-la-clippers-arena/#4d96408b1459 |website=Forbes |access-date=March 28, 2020 |date=March 25, 2020 |archive-date=March 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326161011/https://www.forbes.com/sites/timnewcomb/2020/03/25/steve-ballmer-buys-the-forum-clearing-path-toward-new-la-clippers-arena/#4d96408b1459 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On July 25, 2019, the Clippers released images of the proposed arena with the construction planned to begin in 2021 and completed in fall 2024 following the expiration of the Clippers' lease with the Staples Center.<ref>{{cite news|title=LA Clippers unveil plans for new Inglewood arena|url=https://www.nba.com/article/2019/07/25/la-clippers-unveil-plans-inglewood-arena-official-release|website=NBA.com|date=July 25, 2019|access-date=March 9, 2020|archive-date=January 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101085849/https://www.nba.com/article/2019/07/25/la-clippers-unveil-plans-inglewood-arena-official-release|url-status=live}}</ref> On September 17, 2021, the Clippers unveiled the first renditions of the new arena with an expected cost of up to $2 billion. The team also revealed the arena's name as [[Intuit Dome]] through a 23-year [[naming rights]] deal with [[Intuit]] worth $500 million.<ref>{{Cite tweet|number=1438842163081760773|user=sbjsbd|title=.@LAClippers x @Intuit = @IntuitDome The Clippers have signed a 23-year naming rights deal with Intuit for the team's new $1.8 billion arena development in Inglewood, Calif.|author=Sports Business Journal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=September 17, 2021|title=Ballmer: Clips forging 'own identity' with arena|url=https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32223760/la-clippers-owner-steve-ballmer-building-our-own-presence-identity-new-arena|access-date=September 17, 2021|website=ESPN.com|language=en|archive-date=September 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917183707/https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32223760/la-clippers-owner-steve-ballmer-building-our-own-presence-identity-new-arena|url-status=live}}</ref>