NEW YORK — The NBA, Shelly Sterling and the Sterling Family Trust today resolved their dispute over the ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, the league announced. Under the agreement, the Clippers will be sold to Steve Ballmer, pending approval by the NBA Board of Governors, and the NBA will withdraw its pending charge to terminate the Sterlings’ ownership of the team. Because of the binding agreement to sell the team, the NBA termination hearing that had been scheduled for June 3
We are still more than a month away from free agency, and everything seems so placid now. LeBron James? Looks primed for a three-peat. Carmelo Anthony? He wouldn’t leave New York, would he? He’ll be happy to take less than the max, as Phil Jackson has said he’ll need to do. He will be the backbone of the Knicks’ renaissance, right? No chance those two guys end up in Cleveland or Dallas. No chance, right? Well, five weeks out, and nobody can
Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet’s two-day NBA playoff fantasy leagues Yeah, I really felt like the smart guy yesterday evening when I got on the computer immediately after hearing that Matt Bonner was starting and added him to my lineups. It enabled me to drop Steven Adams and Kawhi Leonard and and a third superstud, Kevin Durant, to a team that already included Russell Westbrook, LeBron James and Tony Parker. I was not the
On Wednesday night, LeBron James had unquestionably his worst playoff performance as a member of the Miami Heat. He bricked eight of his 10 shot attempts, turned the ball over three times and mustered only four assists and two rebounds. According to a measurement devised by John Hollinger, the O.G. of basketball advanced statisticians, it was the second-worst playoff performance of James’ career. Not surprisingly, the four-time MVP’s struggles were a big reason Miami lost 93-90, failing to close out
While many around the league were either expressing sheer amazement for a Russell Westbrook dunk in Oklahoma City’s 117-89 loss to San Antonio. Others were expressing surprise over the obscene amount of money—$2 billion—that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed to pay in order to become the new Los Angeles Clippers owner. While all of these things are both entertaining and informative, in the midst of it all was the Scripps National Spelling Bee, a yearly contest to determine the
Another day, another blowout. The 2014 NBA Playoffs continued on Thursday, May 29 with the resumption of the Western Conference Finals. The San Antonio Spurs looked to bounce back from consecutive losses, while the Oklahoma City Thunder attempted to rebound from two lopsided defeats at AT&T Center. Here’s how it all transpired. [Read more…]
Has Steve Ballmer finally acquired an NBA franchise? Ever since Shelly Sterling claimed to have her husband Donald’s approval to move forward with the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers, she has moved at a blistering pace to field bids in hopes of securing a legitimate buyer before the NBA Board of Governors convene Tuesday, June 3 to vote to have them removed as team owners. Since initiating the bidding war for the Clippers, Shelly’s husband—estranged or not—has
Two billion dollars. Want to see the zeroes? $2,000,000,000. That is what the Los Angeles Clippers will be sold for, unless Donald Sterling can somehow prevent it. This is just nuts. [Read more…]