Hell, when they first suggested that he'd have to sell the team, I told someone, he should say, "Fine! $2.37 Billion!" What I thought would be an "outrageous" number. What did I know?
It would have been a lot more fun to have Sterling hire teams of lawyers and investigators to track down every racist comment by a player or owner to demonstrate the unequal application of the rules. I would think he had a lot of leverage considering the disaster for the league if the average white fan caught on to what the players think of him.