[NYCVirago]

Sterling is not just a pervert and a cheapskate, he's a poor businessman. Big deal that his franchise is worth $200 million -- it's in the second-biggest media market in the country and should be worth twice that. Heck, just the franchise cost for starting the Charlotte Bobcats was $300 million.

Do you know what this lawsuit is about? Did the hooker sue him, so he sued her, or what? That's what it sounded like. He was too cheap to even buy discretion with a hooker!

[KC_Conspirator]

I believe that Sterling is the only owner in the NBA to run a franchise that has posted a profit for 14 straight years. Odd.

[L.N. Smithee]

Do you know what this lawsuit is about? Did the hooker sue him, so he sued her, or what? That's what it sounded like. He was too cheap to even buy discretion with a hooker!

I don't know what the root of it is because the folks at TSG didn't seem to want to explain it. The title of the suit, as listed on the cover of the massive Sterling deposition, is "California Savings vs. Alexandra Castro."

I am not a lawyer, but it appears to me that California Savings is suing her for non-payment on items that were allegedly illegally charged on Sterling's credit card. On this page, a lawyer asks Sterling if he ever authorized Castro to make a purchase on his credit card. Maybe some with a background in law could clear that up.

Additionally, perhaps a legal eagle could confirm or deny another possibility; that Sterling is trying to avoid being charged with perjury after saying in January 2003 that he had no intimate relationship with Castro. He insists his affectionate letters to Castro ("I adore you more than words can express") really meant that she was the best roll-in-the-hay he ever had, and that if their relationship was purely sex-for-cash/gifts, that means they weren't ever really "intimate."

Once again, the range of strained reasoning is reminiscent of Bill Clinton ('I never thought we were really alone').