My Uncle Dennis (my Dad’s identical twin and God Parent) recently lost his battle to Stage 4 Stomach Cancer.
Promised myself that I would share this to the Clippers community on my birthday and show appreciation for the impact the Clippers have had on our family and his fight with Cancer

Backstory:
My Uncle Dennis was one of the first group of buyers to purchase season tickets when the Clippers moved from San Diego to Los Angeles.
He went to all the Clipper events, even some invite only events held by Donald Sterling. (Donald Sterling even spoke to my Uncle a few times)
He’s held section 100 tickets for 30+ years but had to stop due to his health.

My family is from LA so being a Clippers family was incredibly rare growing up.
I was always teased for being Clippers fan growing.

My Uncle never had kids so he treated my brother and I like his own.
His way of spoiling us was by taking us to Clippers game.
I grew up going to see Elton Brand, Darius Miles, young Lamar Odom, my original favorite player Erik Piatkowski - then Jamal Crawford and now Kawhi Leonard.
Through every era, our love for the Clippers grew.

My Uncle was diagnosed with Stage 4 Stomach Cancer in the summer of 2019 - the year the Clippers acquired Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.
It was a long and hard fought 6 years but the Clippers gave us a reason to be positive.
During the time of Covid, my brother and I couldn’t visit him with the given health problems so a lot of our support came from post game phone calls.
We truly believed that the Clippers had it in them to win a championship while he was going through his chemo.

I was hoping to share this story to thank the Clippers for giving us something to root for and always battling when times are tough.
There never was a time where my Uncle gave up on the Clippers.
I hope Clippers Nation can remain optimistic into this next season! My Uncle was extremely hopeful and excited to see Bradley Beal’s and John Collin’s impact.
I’m sad the Clippers couldn’t bring a ship home while he was alive but I know my Uncle Dennis will be watching every game from the best seat in the house until they do!