Ballmer will consider building a new arena in the future

[Quake Griffin]

I know it's a bit out of the way, but I always thought the honda center should be considered.

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nothnx Jeff.

this chip needs to go up in LA County at minimum.
Laker fans win if we go to Orange County.

[TucsonClip]

Moving out of LA Live for the Honda Center/Anaheim would be a disaster.

[Roscoe Sheed]

The Sports Arena is about to meet wrecking ball in a matter of time...a new MLS team is coming to L.A., and with it a new soccer stadium will open on the LASA site by 2018.

If Ballmer should build a new arena for the Clippers...why not next to the practice facility in Playa Vista? I haven't been by the area in awhile, but I remember there's ample room on the land next to the facility.

I wish because I live very close to the facility.

However, there have been a huge amount of new housing and commercial developments there over the past year. I don't think there is any space left for an arena.

[Clemenza]

Moving out of LA Live for the Honda Center/Anaheim would be a disaster.

DTLA is a boom town right now. No team in their right mind would leave the DTLA-LA Live area. Unless you're going to move or build on the other side of downtown(Historic Core) or Hollywood. Why would you move out of the center to Orange Country to play in no mans like the Angels or the Galaxy?

[Ranma]

As a resident of Orange County, I was a big advocate of moving the Clippers to Anaheim into the Honda Center. However, it just doesn't make sense any more. That arena is just old now and Ballmer wants to keep the team in the actual Los Angeles area and not go the route of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim's owner Arte Moreno.

There's two options that would seem to make sense. The first is buying the land the Forum currents sits on from the Madison Square Garden Company in order to build a new arena and piggyback on the construction of the adjacent property that is proposed as the new stadium for the NFL's Rams. This would open up a synergetic partnership with another pro sports franchise that would build more momentum towards revitalizing the Inglewood area. This would not only appeal to the city but also the Rams since it would alleviate the parking problem for their proposed site given the lack of available land in the area.

The second option would be to buy the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena and the accompanying land in order to build a new arena there, which would return the franchise to its original L.A. location. It's closer to where the team currently plays in Downtown Los Angeles, but in a bad area around the USC campus. While this would present a convenient option with nostalgic value, I'd lean more towards the Inglewood option given the respective possibilities.