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Article: Lack of cable deal symbol of rough start for Clippers. (Up Front).(Los Angeles Clippers)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 9, 2002
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The Lakers aren't the only team off to a lousy start this year.
After a promising 2001-2002 season in which they made big strides toward building up a local fan base and narrowly missed the playoffs, the Los Angeles Clippers were 7-13 late last week and once again looking up from near the bottom of the National Basketball Association's Pacific Division.
And despite a new 25-game package with KTLA-TV (Channel 5), there is an impasse between the Clippers and Fox Sports resulting in about a dozen fewer games aired on television this year than last.
Officials for Fox, whose Fox Sports Net and Fox Sports 2, carried about 40 Clippers games per year ...