Shelly Sterling asks court for backing as Clippers owner

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By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Shelly Sterling on Wednesday asked a Los Angeles court to confirm her as the controlling owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers franchise in an attempt to block estranged husband Donald Sterling from possibly stopping the $2 billion sale of the basketball team. Donald Sterling, 80, was banned for life by the National Basketball Association in April and fined $2.5 million by the league after tape of racist remarks he made in private were leaked to the media. He has vowed to fight the sale of the franchise and his wife's claim that she is the sole trustee of the Sterling Family Trust that owns the Clippers. Attorneys for Shelly Sterling filed the emergency request for a hearing in a bid to reinforce her status as the sole trustee of the family trust.

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