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1985–86 Los Angeles Clippers season

NBA professional basketball team season

(Phil Stone, Tom Hawkins) (Ralph Lawler, Ted Green, Pete Arbogast)

The 1985-86 Los Angeles Clippers season was their 16th season in the NBA, their second in Los Angeles.

Draft picks

Main article: 1985 NBA draft

Round	Pick	Player	Position	College
1	3	Benoit Benjamin	Center	Creighton
3	52	Anicet Lavodrama	Forward	Houston Baptist
4	74	Jim Deines	Center
Arizona State
5	99	Wayne Carlander	Forward	USC
6	121	Malcolm Thomas	Forward	Missouri
7	143	Gary Maloncon	Forward	UCLA

Roster

Don Chaney
Don Casey
Brad Greenberg

Roster notes

Forward Jamaal Wilkes becomes the 2nd Laker to play with the crosstown rival Clippers.
Forward Rory White would later serve as an assistant coach for the Clippers under coach Mike Dunleavy Sr. from 2003 to 2008.

Regular season

Season standings

:z - clinched division title :y - clinched division title :x - clinched playoff spot

Game log

Player statistics

GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3FG%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
	79	37	26.4	.490	.333	.746	7.6	1.0	0.8	2.6	11.1
	58	14	20.0	.441	.333	.891	2.1	1.9	0.5	0.1	8.8
	8	0	8.0	.222	.000	.625	2.5	0.5	0.3	0.4	1.6
	78	12	20.1	.479	.000	.649	5.3	1.0	0.8	0.4	6.7
	21	0	6.1	.250	.000	.560	1.4	0.0	0.1	0.1	1.2
	14	14	31.5	.512	.000	.814	9.4	0.9	0.4	2.1	10.2
	73	19	20.4	.454	.111	.874	1.2	3.5	1.2	0.1	9.0
	60	1	11.7	.377	.250	.804	1.1	1.0	0.6	0.2	5.2
	75	75	34.7	.510	.067	.760	5.5	3.8	1.4	0.7	20.3
3	0	6.0	.000			0.7	0.0	0.7	0.3	0.0
76	72	32.3	.475	.000	.795	8.2	2.8	0.8	0.4	14.1
14	0	7.1	.356	.000	.643	1.1	0.2	0.3	0.2	2.9
67	62	29.0	.505	.000	.760	5.9	0.7	0.4	1.4	12.0
67	62	31.9	.438	.347	.809	2.7	8.6	1.3	0.0	14.6
11	9	30.8	.552	.500	.690	3.7	2.8	0.8	1.2	23.5
6	0	11.5	.400		.500	1.3	2.0	0.8	0.2	2.2
34	2	14.2	.379	.273	.787	1.6	3.1	0.7	0.0	5.9
75	30	23.5	.519	.111	.739	2.4	1.0	1.0	0.1	11.7
13	1	15.0	.400	.333	.815	2.2	1.2	0.5	0.2	5.8

Awards, records and milestones

All-Star

Marques Johnson selected as a reserve forward for the Western Conference All-Stars. This would be his fifth and final All-Star Game appearance. With Norm Nixon chosen as an All-Star last year, this would make it the third time in franchise history that the team fielded a different player for back-to-back All-Star Games. The other two times were Bob Kauffman in 1973 then Bob McAdoo in 1974 and Bob McAdoo again in 1977 then Randy Smith in 1978.

Transactions

The Clippers were involved in the following transactions during the 1985–86 season.

Trades

Free agents

Additions

Subtractions

References

[https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/LAC/1986.html 1985-86 Los Angeles Clippers]

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