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The Lead

Is LA Becoming a Clippers Town?

The Lead

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is on a mission to win over more fans in a city that is synonymous with the Lakers. And the franchise has doubled down on those efforts lately, through everything from a slick marketing campaign to building and renovating hundreds of basketball courts around the city of Los Angeles. With the Clippers and Lakers set to square off on Sunday, The Athletic’s Jovan Buha joins us to talk about how the ex-Microsoft CEO's quest to build his team's fanbase is going, how these two teams match up against each other on the court, and whether or not Los Angeles might actually start to become a Clippers town.

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0:00.0

Ever since he bought the team back in 2014, Clipper's owner, Steve Balmer, has been on a mission.

0:30.0

In a city that's synonymous with the Lakers, he's trying to win championships and win over fans.

0:38.0

And with the Clippers and Lakers set to square off on Sunday, the athletics Yovon Buha joins us to talk about how Balmer's mission is going,

0:46.0

how these two teams match up against each other, and whether or not Los Angeles is starting to become a Clippers town.

0:54.0

You know, there is a whole part of Los Angeles that is not Hollywood, that are the people who take the bus and work three jobs and really have to grind to make a living.

1:12.0

From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow.

1:14.0

And I'm Kavita Davidson. It's Friday, March 6th, and this is the lead.

1:20.0

It felt like something great was happening.

1:24.0

There was just something about the emotion and that moment.

1:28.0

The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now.

1:32.0

You can't see anything like that.

1:34.0

This isn't a story where the interview the athlete will hold.

1:38.0

It stays with you.

1:40.0

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1:52.0

Hello, I'm Hannah.

1:54.0

And I'm Sirete.

1:56.0

And we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast.

2:00.0

Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.

2:02.0

From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga.

2:08.0

Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand.

2:12.0

Which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.

2:16.0

We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood,

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