The Clippers will play the ninth Game 7 in franchise history on Sunday. It’s been a mixed bag, with far greater luck in the first round than the second. The Clippers have won three of their four opening-round Game 7’s. The franchise is more famous for its 0-4 mark in second-round Game 7’s (which includes a 1975 series loss, as the Buffalo Braves, to the Washington Bullets), but that’s a story for the second round.
None of this, of course, will have any bearing on Sunday’s showdown against the Dallas Mavericks, but it’s interesting nonetheless. Here’s the Game 7 breakdown in the first round:
2017
The year the Clippers last played in a first-round Game 7, where they lost to the Utah Jazz.