Racist Dirtbag Donald Sterling Now $2.5 Billion Richer
Donald Sterling is best known for being ten pounds of racist neckflap in a five-pound housing discrimination bag. After his lawyers claimed he'd received offers to buy the Los Angeles Clippers for $2.5 billion, Deadspin pointed out this would make Lob City the most valuable sports franchise on the planet. Yes, those Los Angeles Clippers.
Needless to say, our gobs are thoroughly smacked this morning by the story broken by the Los Angeles Times.
Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has won a frenetic bidding war for ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, with a $2-billion offer that would set a record price for an NBA team.[...]The sale price would be almost four times the previous NBA franchise high: the $550 million paid earlier this month for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Can we shut up now about how his rights were violated by "taking away" his team?
Hell, at this point someone would claim creating jobs is killing jobs. See also solar roads