Quake Griffin wrote:I thought the Pond was built after 1992, so I wikid the 1992 playoffs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_NBA_playoffs
Looks like the game was at the Anaheim Convention Center (where I've caught other basketball contests before).
Then I looked this up.
I find it unbelievable that that place has actually hosted an NBA playoff game within the last 30 years.
#SterlingYears
because the riots
https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/la-sp-clippers-jazz-riots-20170416-story.html
Bring your Sports Arena ticket to Anaheim, fans were told. First come, first served.
- With 11,000 tickets sold for Game 4, there would not be enough seats for everyone. The NBA insisted upon an adjacent viewing room with televisions.
“Once you got your seat, you didn’t want to get out,” Lahr says. “Nobody wanted to go to the bathroom because somebody else would grab their seat.”
Not even an electrical failure in the first quarter, which forced officials to use a hand-held air horn instead of the venue’s buzzer, could dampen spirits.
“If I could have hoped,” coach Larry Brown said at the time, “I would have hoped for this.”
With the score close and less than 2 minutes remaining, Manning made two free throws and Smith scored on a layup. Rivers — providing the postseason leadership the team had needed — weaved into the lane and flipped a shot into the air.
The ball hung on the rim a moment before dropping in.
The Clippers ultimately outscored Utah 11-2 in those final moments to cement a 115-107 victory.
“It was like, for the people of L.A., the first time they could come out of their houses and rejoice,” he says. “I remember that.”
It WAS the Convention Center. You had to line up early to get tickets, since it was smaller than the Sports Arena—I totally forgot about that. It was small and epically loud. I remember the volume. The Pond games were a couple of years later—now that I think about it, I remember seeing the Suns there during the big losing streak at the beginning of the 94-95 season, when I was home from school. I saw another game there that was moved because of the Northridge Quake. Both were great—but it was probably because both were huge sell out crowds. The announced crowds at the Sports Arena were usually around 9000—and that was overestimating by, maybe, 50 percent. I’m not kidding.
