1991–92 Los Angeles Clippers season

The 1991–92 Los Angeles Clippers season was their 22nd season in the National Basketball Association and their 8th in Los Angeles. During the offseason, the Clippers acquired Doc Rivers from the Atlanta Hawks and James Edwards from the Detroit Pistons. The Clippers led by Danny Manning and Ron Harper won five of their first seven games. They would lose six straight afterwards, but then post an 8-game winning streak in December which led them to a 14–10 start. However, they would struggle over the next few weeks sliding back below .500 with a 21–24 record as head coach Mike Schuler was fired. After splitting two games under interim Mack Calvin, the team hired Larry Brown, who resigned as coach of the San Anonio Spurs a few weeks earlier.

Contents

• Roster Notes
• Season standings
• West First Round
• Transactions
• References

Under Brown, the Clippers won 23 of their final 35 games to finish fifth in the Pacific Division with a 45–37 record. Making their first playoff appearance since the 1975–76 season when they were known as the Buffalo Braves, and ending a fifteen-year playoff drought. This season also marked the first time that the Clippers finished with a better record than their crosstown rival, the Los Angeles Lakers, who finished two games behind them with a 43–39 record. In the first round of the playoffs, the Clippers lost in five games to the Utah Jazz.

Following the season, Rivers was traded along with Charles D. Smith and Bo Kimble to the New York Knicks, Edwards signed as an unrestricted free agent with the Los Angeles Lakers, and Olden Polynice was dealt to the Detroit Pistons.