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Word: nonplayoff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

...collapse of sports in Los Angeles is total. Not only does nobody want in any longer, everybody wants out. The Clippers, who had escaped from San Diego and begun to edge toward respectability, have been bombed back to their traditional nonplayoff status. Most telling, they can no longer keep their first-round draft picks -- and they had 10 of them over a seven-year stretch in the 1980s. Owner Donald Sterling keeps losing them to places like Atlanta and Milwaukee, the kinds of places L.A. teams and players used to move from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Days in La-La Land | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

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