The owner of the LA Clippers will soon be a man named Steve Ballmer, unless Donald Sterling has his way. The crazy old racist claimed he was going to sue the NBA, then dropped the lawsuit, then decided to go ahead and sue. Even though the NBA has been shielded from any such proceedings per a deal wife Sterling's wife Shelly, the ordeal would take time and attention and would hold the team up in legal matters which the NBA definitely does not want. Shelly has had her flip-flopping husband declared mentally incompetent, which Sterling also denies, so the former lawyer may soon be back in court.
Even though NBA Commissioner Adam Silver doesn't want lawsuits to delay the sale of the team, he remains firm that the deal is legitimate in his eyes (via ESPN):
"But the outcome seems pretty clear as I said the other day: Shelly [Sterling] has an agreement with Steve Ballmer. She sold the team. There was a document signed by Donald Sterling giving her the right to negotiate that sale. On top of that, under their trust agreement, she had him found by two leading neurologists in L.A. to be incapacitated or incompetent, or whatever the standard is under that trust agreement giving her the sole right to enter into that agreement."
The truth is, even if Donald Sterling knows he can't win, he may be doing this for spite. He's a crazy, but rich, old man who is losing the thing which is most precious in this world to him. And instead of moving aside and accepting the inevitable, he is acting like a child and fighting a war of attrition. A very public war (via CNN):
"Donald Sterling initially vowed to fight the sale and filed a lawsuit against the NBA, then said he was going along with the sale -- until Monday, when he again pulled his support. 'From the onset, I did not want to sell the Los Angeles Clippers. I have worked for 33 years to build the team.'"
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