The Los Angeles Clippers have been sharing a stadium with their cross-locker room rivals, the Los Angeles Lakers, and NHL team the Los Angeles Kings since coming to Los Angeles from San Diego in 1984. Sharing a stadium has been a sore subject for the Clippers as it has had real-time negative effects on them.
With their former arena, the Clippers had to be third fiddle in terms of scheduling which caused them to consistently have matinee games on Sundays - a situation that players on the Clippers strongly disliked.
With Intuit Dome being built comes a handful of benefits for the Clippers and their fans. Not only in terms of scheduling but the arena is state of the art in a plethora of ways. The arena boasts a historically large Halo Board that's interactive for fans inside the arena.
The first taste of the new stadium that fans experienced was the Halo Board visuals during a rendition of the national anthem.
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