Guest Sports News Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 [attach=full]14807[/attach]By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The $2 billion sale of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers faces a key legal hurdle on Monday as the estranged husband and wife who own the franchise battle in court over control of the team. Shelly Sterling, 79, has asked a Los Angeles judge to confirm her as having sole authority to sell the pro basketball franchise to former Microsoft Corp chief executive Steve Ballmer at an NBA-record price after husband Donald Sterling vowed to block the deal. Attorneys for Donald Sterling plan to argue that Shelly Sterling misled him into submitting to mental fitness examinations in May which ultimately handed control to his wife when physicians deemed him incompetent to manage business affairs because of early Alzheimer's disease. In an unprecedented move, the league banned 80-year-old Donald Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million in April after taped racist remarks he made privately were leaked to celebrity website TMZ.com during the Clippers' playoff run. Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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