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By Larry Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - The NBA on Thursday launched its bid to oust Donald Sterling as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers over racist comments as a committee of 10 fellow team owners or their proxies convened by telephone for a strategy session. The conference call by members of the advisory finance committee of the National Basketball Association's Board of Governors came two days after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver declared Sterling banned for life from pro basketball. Silver on Tuesday also fined Sterling $2.5 million, the league maximum, and called on the 29 other club owners who make up the governing board to exercise their authority to force Sterling to sell the Clippers. If approved, the board could then go further still and vote to seize ownership of the team for the NBA itself to sell, cutting Sterling out of the negotiations.
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