Do the Celtics Play in Boston or LA?

Prior to the 1978-79 season, Boston Celtics owner Irv Levin and Buffalo Braves owner John Y. Brown agreed to trade places. Levin, a California native, would takeover the Braves and move them to San Diego, where they became the Clippers, while Brown would takeover the Celtics.

However, each owner wanted to keep a few of his favorite players on the team he was inheriting. So on top of the ownership swap, a trade involving seven players and two second-round draft picks was worked out.

Brown took Nate Archibald, Marvin Barnes and Billy Knight with him to Boston. Kermit Washington, Kevin Kunnert, Sidney Wicks and first-round draft pick Freeman Williams accompanied Levin to San Diego.

So what?

I might have asked the same question until I read the Boston Globe's commentary from 1992.

Technically, the Braves' franchise is playing home games in the Boston Garden while the Celtics' franchise is on the West Coast. You want proof? Clippers' owner Donald Sterling was still writing out checks to fulfill the contract of John Havlicek during the mid-1980s.

And if the Celtics are really the Clippers and vice versa, how does this impact the 1985 trade sending Cornbread Maxwell from Boston to Los Angeles for Bill Walton? Did the Boston Celtics really win any NBA titles after 1976? Was Larry Bird really a Clipper?

Whoa.

I just can't figure out if I need to lay off those hallucinogenic drugs or ingest more of them...