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Clippers To Remain At Staples CenterIt looks like the Clippers will not be on the move after all. According to ESPN the team announced Thursday it has agreed to terms of a 10-year lease with the Anschutz Entertainment Group, owners and operators of the Staples Center. The original lease had been scheduled to expire at the end of the upcoming season. "We are very pleased to announce this agreement and to be able to ensure that our fans will enjoy the long-term comfort and stability that goes along with making Staples Center our home," Clippers executive vice president Andy Roeser said in a statement. The agreement goes into effect immediately, the Clippers said. No other terms were announced. "Our goal has always been to operate the world's most important and certainly most busy arena and this long-term agreement from our partners will certainly ensure this," AEG president and CEO Tim Leiweke said. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Clippers Near Completion of Staples Center Lease ExtensionSeveral weeks ago Staples Center officials made it seem as though they were unsure whether hosting 41 Clippers games per year was worth it, but now a long-term lease between the two sides is imminent. "We would like the Clippers to stay and … I think we're going to work this out," Tim Leiweke, president of Anschutz Entertainment Group, told radio station XTRA. "I think we'll have something in the next week, at the very latest. "And it will be a long-term deal." Leiweke was previously quoted as telling the newspaper, "We actually would make more money if, instead of 40 Clippers games, we had five concerts. So, those are some of the decisions we're going to have to make. The Clippers' issue is in negotiations now. Their lease is up after this year. "And ironically, shockingly, we've got to make a decision as to whether we even want them back. We're not sure." The Clippers moved from the Sports Arena before the 1999-2000 season, signing a six-year lease with Staples Center, which opened five years ago this month. At the same time, the Lakers and NHL's Kings signed 20-year leases with Staples Center. Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Clippers Likely to Move to the Pond in Anaheim Next SeasonWith the comments made by Tim Leiweke, president of Anschutz Entertainment Group, which owns and operates Staples Center, it appears very likely that the L.A. Clippers will move to the Pond in Anaheim following this season. Leiweke stated that the Staples Center makes more from about five concerts than it does over the course of a 41 home-game schedule of the Clippers. The lease that Donald Sterling holds with the Staples Center runs out after this season, and it is likely that the operators of the Pond would give the Clippers a favorable deal to move down the 5 to Anaheim, particularly with the uncertain status of the Mighty Ducks of the NHL. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Clippers Oct 2004 Archive
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