The Honey Training Center is a 42,500 square foot (3,950 m2) two-story training facility. It served as the main training and practice center for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2008 until 2024 when the organization moved all operations to Intuit Dome.
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The Honey Training Center is a 42,500 square foot (3,950 m2) two-story training facility. It served as the main training and practice center for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2008 until 2024 when the organization moved all operations to Intuit Dome. Located in the planned community of Playa Vista in Los Angeles near Loyola Marymount University, the facility is at least 1 mile (1.6 km) away from nearby beaches (Playa Del Rey, Marina Del Rey, and Venice), 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Los Angeles International Airport, and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of the Clipper's previous arena, Crypto.com Arena. While the team maintained some office functions at Crypto.com Arena, the Playa Vista facility served as the official headquarters of the Clippers. The Honey Training Center is located 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest from the current Clippers arena, Intuit Dome, in Inglewood. The training center was formally opened on 25 September 2008. The facility contains two regulation basketball courts including a duplicate of the wood floor that the team plays on at Crypto.com Arena. On 7 July 2005, Andy Roeser, then-executive vice president of the Clippers, and Steve Soboroff, the president of Playa Vista announced the sale of a two-acre (0.81 ha) plot where the Clippers would build what they called "a state of the art training facility." According to Soboroff, who was instrumental in the development of Crypto.com Arena and in convincing the Clippers to move there from the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, Roeser had been discussing the siting of a team practice facility since 2000. Prior to the opening of the Clippers' team facility, the team conducted its practices and workouts at the Spectrum Club, a fitness center in nearby El Segundo, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the Toyota Sports Center, the practice facility and team headquarters of the NHL's Los Angeles Kings. After Soboroff joined Playa Vista in 2001, they began scouting locatio