The Donald Sterling and Los Angeles Clippers saga may finally be coming to an end. Reports previously surfaced that Sterling gave permission to his wife Shelly to sell the team. Adam Silver and the Board of Governors were reportedly willing to hold off on the oust of Sterling if the team was successfully sold and it appears they’re on their way to doing so.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reportedly won a frantic bidding war that included Los Angeles-based investors Tony Ressler and Steve Karsh and a group that included David Geffen and executives from the Guggenheim Group, the Chicago-based owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
According to the L.A Times, the Geffen group bid $1.6 billion and Ressler bid $1.2 billion. Ballmer won out with a whopping $2 billion bid. The offer set a new record for the NBA which was previously held by the Milwaukee Bucks which went for $550 million earlier this month. Though the Guggenheim Group lost out on this bid, the $2.1 billion price they paid for the Dodgers is the highest for any sports team in North America.
The deal is still tentative and must be approved by Donald who’s gone back and forth on his stance and recently put out a statement through his lawyer that “he’s not interested in selling. He’s going to fight to the bloody end”. The deal must also be approved by the other 29 NBA owners but is expected to clear that hurdle as long as Ballmer keeps his pledge to keep the team in LA and not move it to Seattle, the city where he lives and where fans are dying to get a team back.
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Ballmer maintained that he would keep the team in Los Angeles because anywhere else would be “value destructive”.
Ballmer worked at Microsoft for 34 years, including the last 14 as chief executive. He has an estimated net worth of $20 billion.
– Shaina Auxilly (@Shay_Marie)
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HONEST ABOUT THE PAST AND PRESENT US POLITICAL ECONOMIC SOCIAL SYSTEM
AND MOST IMPORTANT PAST AND PRESENT “US WHITE SUPREMACY”/ BLACK LABOR
CULTURE!! “THE KING HAS NO CLOTHES”
Mr. Sterling is and Steve Ballmer are typical
“EUROPEAN SETTLER COLONIAL BUSINESS MEN” operating on the land PIRATED
FROM THE NATIVE PEOPLE AND DEVELOPED BY AFRICAN:”SLAVE LABOR” THROUGH
GENOCIDAL TERRORISM !!!! LIKE HIS FELLOW EURO DESCENDANT BANKERS, MOVIE
EXECUTIVES. INDUSTRIALISTS, POLITICIANS, CATHOLIC, PROTESTANT,
EVANGELICAL AND OTHER “WHITE JESUS” RELIGIOUS LEADERS. The “WHITE
SUPREMACY COURT” has ruled in the DRED SCOTT CASE THAT “A BLACK MAN HAS
NO RIGHTS A WHITE MAN IS BOUND TO RESPECT”? What is new???? “THE MORE
THINGS CHANGE THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME”??? IT IS TIME THE AFRICAN
AMERICAN BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL PLAYERS STOP “PLAYING AS VICTIMS”,,,,
FORM AND CONTROL THEIR OWN MULTI- ETHNIC LEAGUES AND THEN MERGE WITH THE
NBA AND NFL!!!!! PLANTATIONS SHOULD HAVE MORE THAN JUST “WHITE” OWNERS
IN 2014 FORWARD OR THE BLACK HORSES DON’T RUN!!!!…… TALENT EQUALS
CONTROL.??????? FOR THE SAKE OF JUSTICE YOU CAN THROW IN $$$TRILLIONS
FOR “REPAIRATIONS” (REPARATIONS) 400 YEARS OF UNPAID BLACK “SLAVE LABOR”
BEFORE THE NBA AND NFL!!!!!!!! YES, YES, YES JUSTICE AND AN END TO
ECONOMIC APARTHEID!!!! Omari Tahir FOUNDER African American Heritage
Museum and Culture Center and AFRICATOWN SEATTLE (SUPER SONICS).