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Steve Ballmer In Talks To Buy Los Angeles Clippers

Posted by samzenpus on from the dribblers-dribblers-dribblers dept.

SmartAboutThings (1951032) writes "According to rumors circulating, the wife of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has reportedly met billionaire former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Sunday and they discussed the selling of the club. Previously, it was reported that Donald Sterling had surrendered control of the Los Angeles Clippers to his wife. The rumored deal has been estimated at about $2 billion, and if it does get through, there are chances that Ballmer might want to move the club to Seattle. If Ballmer does end up buying the Clippers, this would make him the second former Microsoft top executive to own an NBA team, after Paul Allen, the owner of the Portland Trailblazers."

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  1. LA Clippy by rodrigoandrade · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obvious name change is imminent...

    1. Re:LA Clippy by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Funny

      It looks like you are trying to move the ball down court.
      Would you like to dribble it?
      make a pass?
      take a 3 point shot?

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  3. Chairs to throw... by Andrewkov · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are a lot of chairs to throw in an NBA stadium..

    Just sayin.

  4. Re:Moving to seattle? by cusco · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Seattle's case taxpayers had just coughed up almost half a billion dollars to put up a new football and baseball stadium, in the process destroying the much-loved King Dome and flattening the south end of downtown, and then gave naming rights and enormous tax breaks to the teams' owners to boot. The Sonics declared that they needed a new stadium which was going to cost as much as the other two combined, even though they couldn't reliably fill their current location, **and** they wanted to site it in a rather historic part of the city, **and** they were going to demand all parking revenue for a decade or more even though they weren't paying to build the structure. Seattle appropriately told them to take a hike, and I wish they had told the Mariners and Seahawks the same thing a few years before.

    So Ballmer wants to buy a sports team? All I can say is, "Who gives a flying fuck?"

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