{"id":50420,"date":"2025-05-22T19:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/50420\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T19:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:59:21","slug":"los-angeles-clippers-owner-steve-ballmer-praises-the-wall-at-intuit-dome-sba-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/50420\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer praises \u2018The Wall\u2019 at Intuit Dome SBA win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Clippers owner Steve Ballmer called Intuit Dome his \u201cpassion project\u201d when accepting the award for Sports Facility of the Year at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/21\/winners-of-the-2025-sports-business-awards\/?issueId=KAZT65KSNRCM5H3PYQTDRUP2QI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/21\/winners-of-the-2025-sports-business-awards\/?issueId=KAZT65KSNRCM5H3PYQTDRUP2QI\">last night\u2019s Sports Business Awards in N.Y.<\/a>, saying that his vision has always been for the arena to be \u201ca place for basketball fans to be basketball fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Ballmer pumped his fists and shouted while rushing up the red carpet, practically leaping on the stage to accept the award from Abe Madkour, followed by his staff and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">He displayed his trademark enthusiasm in passionately speaking about his vision for the arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">\u201cOur strategy from the start was get our fans to fill the building, be part of the energy and the heat and the passion,\u201d Ballmer said. \u201cIn particular, our fans on The Wall &#8212; 51 rows of fans, uninterrupted, no break. Loud and proud student section style.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Ballmer then issued a call to action for the crowd, saying, \u201cSo if you wanna go to something that\u2019s pumping and thumping, come on out and watch a game at Intuit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clippers owner Steve Ballmer called Intuit Dome his \u201cpassion project\u201d when accepting the award for Sports Facility of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,2206,4034,192,4032,7457,251,135,4033,4031,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-50420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-fan-experience","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-clippers","13":"tag-laclippers","14":"tag-leadership","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangelesclippers","19":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114553262206274240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}