Trial over $2 bln Clippers sale starts with Sterling no-show

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By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The trial over the $2 billion sale of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers got off to a rocky start on Monday with the team's co-owner Donald Sterling skipping proceedings that were delayed several times by legal wrangling and courtroom gamesmanship. The attorney for Sterling's estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, called Sterling as the first witness in the trial, but the 80-year-old real estate billionaire, whose doctors have said he has Alzheimer's disease, was not in court. "Mr. Sterling was supposed to be here today," lawyer Pierce O'Donnell told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas.

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