For Elgin Baylor and his teammates on the Los Angeles ... According to Baylor, the incident occurred on a flight from Minneapolis. Before the plane took off, the pilot had already told the players ...

They had lost to the Hawks and were flying back home to Minneapolis. "We were playing cards, and then the lights went out, and it got cold," recalled Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor ...

It was an Elgin. "And that's what he named me after," said Baylor, no doubt relieved that ... The team was located in Minneapolis then, but after dominating the NBA in the early '50s, it fell ...