For most NBA teams. They usually hang their division winning banners in their training floor. Only Conference and NBA Championship banners go into the main arena.
For the Los Angeles Clippers. They are not bothering with hanging division banners. According to ESPN. Nothing will be hung unless it has “NBA Champion” on it.
This offseason, the team decided against hanging their division banners at Staples Center and instead hung them in their training facility, overlooking their practice courts.
Clippers coach Doc Rivers wants his team to be proud of winning back-to-back division titles but said he looks forward to taking them down and putting up a “real banner” next year.
“We have no history,” Rivers said Tuesday. “You might as well start parading something. It’s nothing deeper than that. I don’t love them. I hope someday we can remove them all and put the real banners up but right now we have to start from somewhere. I think anything that associates yourself with winning anything in this organization is important.”
“They look cool but honestly I never really look up there and think about it,” Clippers forward Blake Griffin said. “I never say, ‘Ah, yes, we did that.’ Like we’ve said for the past several years, we want more than that. It’s cool, but it’s not something where I would bring someone in for a tour and walk them in front of the banners. No.“
It seems that the Clippers finally mean business. I don’t see why division banners are even a thing. Nobody cares about division titles. It’s all about Conference championships and of course NBA Championship banners.
The Los Angeles Clippers know that and who knows. Maybe a ring is in sight this season.
