Elgin Baylor has parted company with the Los Angeles Clippers.
Elgin Baylor has parted company with the Los Angeles Clippers.

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Baylor departs role with the Clippers

The Los Angeles Clippers have parted company with general manager Elgin Baylor, the team have confirmed.

LOS ANGELES // The Los Angeles Clippers have parted company with general manager Elgin Baylor, the team said on Tuesday. "We greatly appreciate Elgin's efforts during his time with the Clippers, and we wish him the very best," Clippers owner Donald Sterling said. The team did not say why Baylor, 74, had left. His duties have been given to head coach Mike Dunleavy. Baylor, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com), would not comment on the specifics of his departure.

"There is a dispute, and on the advice of my attorney they did not want me to discuss it," he told the newspaper. Baylor, an 11-times NBA All Star, joined the Clippers in 1986 as vice president of basketball operations and general manager, titles he held at the time of his departure. The former Los Angeles Lakers forward has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame and was chosen as one of the NBA's "50 Greatest Players of All Time" during the league's 50th Anniversary celebration in 1997.

* Reuters

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