Posted on 06/04/2014 3:47:09 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
Donald Sterling officially announced Wednesday that he, the NBA and his estranged wife Shelly have agreed to sell the Los Angeles Clippers to Steve Ballmer for $2 billion and various additional benefits, Sterling's lawyer told NBC News.
All disputes and outstanding issues have been resolved, and the $1 billion lawsuit against the NBA Sterling filed last week has been dropped, Sterling's lawyer Bobby Samini told NBC News exclusively. Sterling told NBC4 in an exclusive interview on Tuesday he was ready to "move on" from the team.
"I feel fabulous, I feel very good. Everything is just the way it should be, really. It may have worked out differently, but it's good. It's all good," Sterling said.
A vote by the NBA Board of Governors will be needed to finalize the sale.
Last week, the league announced that it had canceled a hearing to oust Sterling, instead moving forward to vote on the deal negotiated by his wife to sell the team. The move came on the same day Sterling's attorneys filed suit in a Los Angeles federal court against the NBA and Silver, asking for damages in excess of $1 billion.
Silver fined Sterling $2.5 million and banned him for life from the league after an audio recording surfaced in which Sterling told companion V. Stiviano not to bring black people to Clippers games.
Sterling obviously planned everything from the very beginning. Brillian!
Crap ... CNN will lose 4 hours of race baiting per day. Wonder what they can have slap happy Banister, Coyote Blitzer and the cult of death cover for those 4 hours?
Magic got a used hooker!
Even better!
The team is still an asset and part of his wealth. I think the next closest bid was $1.6 billion. If he can sell it in the future for more than he paid, it's not a hit to his wealth at all.
Los Angeles has the Lakers.
They don’t need, or really even want the Clippers.
I see 100 Laker bumper stickers for every Clippers.
Ballmer’s going to get a haircut with those Clippers.
For $2 billion he could probably but the entire WNBA and toss in the Lingerie League as well.
to Baltimore?
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