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'80s Clippers Alternate?


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The picture can only be from '83-84, Cummings' last as a San Diego Clipper and DJ's first as a Celtic.

I always associate the blue and white versions you refer to with the early LA Clippers (as listed on the mothership as 84-85 through 86-87).

This search of the '84-84 Star basketball cards shows mostly blue jerseys, but also Walton and Billy McKinney in the reds. As well as Terry Cummings in the the sky blue !! (used in the preseason? proto-photoshop?)

http://www.checkoutmycards.com/Cards/Basketball/1983-84,+clippers

'82-'86 is quite a 'dark age' as far as I'm concerned since the only basketball cards were Star. But it looks like you're right about these being used alongside the blues (no neat red roads for 83-85 SD, blue roads for LA solution)

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Is that the curly, kinda-1975-Astros numeral font Sand-Knit used a fair bit for about a decade? I know I've seen multiple instances, but the only one which immediately comes to mind is the Milwaukee Does from '70s women's basketball.

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Is that the curly, kinda-1975-Astros numeral font Sand-Knit used a fair bit for about a decade? I know I've seen multiple instances, but the only one which immediately comes to mind is the Milwaukee Does from '70s women's basketball.

Yep, same font.

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Ah, the early 80's Clippers uni conundrum - I came across this a couple of years ago, and spent quite a while trying to solve it. I can confirm that the Clippers wore both red and blue road unis for the '83-'84 season. I suspect that the blue uni was used more than the red, but that's just conjecture on my part.

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