Steve Ballmer May Change Clippers Team Name When the Team Moves to Inglewood in 2024

Updated: July 30, 2019

We all know Steve Ballmer and the Clippers are fired up. They just signed the biggest free agent in 2019, traded for another all star in Paul George, and are getting their own arena in 2024 out in Inglewood.

That’s right. In four seasons the Clips will be in a new state of the art arena.

Here are the plans for the new arena:

Transformative.

Unparalleled.

A place for #ClipperNation to call home. pic.twitter.com/1gJGBe19vr

— LA Clippers (@LAClippers) July 26, 2019

But what’s also interesting is that the Clippers may change the team’s name and uniforms as well in 2024:

“Hopefully, by the time we’re done, it won’t be a Clipper logo,” Ballmer said. “It will be some naming rights sponsor.”

And Ballmer would not rule out changing the logo — and the colors, and perhaps even the nickname itself when the Clippers move into the new arena.

“We have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to really step our identity up another level,” he said. “I don’t anticipate making a change, but we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and that is the kind of thing you somehow do in consultation with your fans.”

-LA Times