Tech billionaire Steve Ballmer, who headed Microsoft for 14 years, has won bidding for the @LAClippers at a record $2 billion. Story soon.
BALL
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
TWO BILLION!
― Spottie, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
seattle clippers
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
a gis for steve ballmer is one of the more horrific things on this planet
― Clay, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
Oh god I nearly pissed myself for real.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:25 (nine years ago) link
oh he is just so actively repugnant that i get the heebie-jeebies
― Clay, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
Thank god for Kegel exercises.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
cue the flood of *what kind of punishment is two billion dollars won't someone think of the children* facebook posts
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/article/46704-image/Heres-what-well-remember-Steve-Ballmer-for-best-and-weirdest-moments.jpg
― slam dunk, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
lol i love ballmer he is so ballmer
― lag∞n, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link
so not ballmer
― Clay, Thursday, 29 May 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
ballmer should have bought beats and apple should have bought the clippers
― Clay, Friday, 30 May 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
Jeez, two freakin' billion dollars??? What in holy hell happened in the five years between The No Benjamins Association and now? (Other than the economy recovering and the owners winning the lockout.)
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 30 May 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2j_GPIqRA
― polyphonic, Friday, 30 May 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
so apparently his wife got him declared mentally incapacitated so she could be sole trustee and sell the team, lol
― call all destroyer, Friday, 30 May 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
30 years too late or something.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 30 May 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
ballmer #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_AP3SGMxxM
― am0n, Friday, 30 May 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
I know it's not what happened.
I know that Sterling is a douche who got caught being douchey and his co-owners wanted him gone for a while, and Silver knew he'd look awesome for doing it as early as he could.
BUT
Imagine just for a second that Sterling planned this whole thing. It is really not too far outside the realm of possibility. It would not take a Kaiser Soze or Petyr Baelish to pull this off.
I know it would have just been easier and less public and possibly more profitable (although I don't see how THAT'S possible) to just put the team up for sale, so I'm not sure if this was a thing that makes sense pragmatically. Like, would this brouhaha increase value? Possibly by way of publicity?
Thoughts?
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 30 May 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
Sorry - FELLOW owners.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 30 May 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
As first reported by NBC News, Donald Sterling will file a lawsuit against the NBA for forcing a sale of the Clippers, and he'll reportedly seek more than $1 billion in damages. ESPN's Ramona Shelburne adds that Sterling is still deciding whether to sue Shelly Sterling too. And here comes Woj, saying Sterling could file a separate suit to stop the sale of the team.
http://deadspin.com/donald-sterling-to-sue-nba-1583993252
― Clay, Friday, 30 May 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
http://thedirtyturban.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/aasilver.gif
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 30 May 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
"i got u"
http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2014/0529/nba_g_steveb2_cr_576x324.jpg
― am0n, Saturday, 31 May 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
Lawsuit filed, sale is off
― 龜, Saturday, 31 May 2014 06:34 (nine years ago) link
rough day to be steve ballmer, hope he finds the slightest comfort in his billions upon billions of dollars
― Clay, Saturday, 31 May 2014 06:50 (nine years ago) link
sterling's only delaying the inevitable. no chance he'd win. he's just trying to be the biggest pain in the ass he can be.
― put 'er right in the old breadbasket (Aimless), Saturday, 31 May 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
if he manages to delay the sale until after he dies then he wins i think
― lag∞n, Saturday, 31 May 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
if you consider poking the other guy in the eye and then dying before he can crush you as a win, then I suppose yeah, it's a win.
― put 'er right in the old breadbasket (Aimless), Saturday, 31 May 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
im glad were in agreement
― lag∞n, Saturday, 31 May 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
he gave up
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 June 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
everyone hates a quitter
― Clay, Thursday, 5 June 2014 01:41 (nine years ago) link
very disappoint
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 June 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
BUT. MAYBE NOT. QUITTING YET
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Monday, 9 June 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
jezz
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
jeez
this guy
just take ur $2b and go home
lmao this guyhttp://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/11059020/donald-sterling-decides-pursue-1-billion-lawsuit-nba-all
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link
srs question is it possible for someone to rob him of the clippers at gunpoint?
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 03:47 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpzWbvqCYAAgc4Z.png:large
put this right up there with dan_gilbert_comic_sans
― Clay, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:05 (nine years ago) link
i mean this is donald "t." sterling literally talking about systematic discrimination enacted by institutions and how said institution is avoiding "the larger social issue"
― Clay, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/sports/basketball/donald-sterling-impairment-eased-clippers-sale-to-steve-ballmer.htmlfun read and an easy way to get up to date
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 05:20 (nine years ago) link
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holy shit it's like the chutzpah story of the kid who kills his parents and then asks for clemency bc he's an orphan
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link
im a despicable monster. THIS IS THE REASON I WILL NOT SELL MY TEAM.
― am0n, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
Hi sometimes lurker here who happens to be up early:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/13/us/sterling-nba-investigation/index.html
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 13 June 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11105717/sad-last-chapter-donald-sterling-life
just starting this
― k3vin k., Friday, 20 June 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
making my way through that and, like, is there a single aspect of this guy's personality that is not utterly repulsive?
Donald liked to order for everyone at the table, then eat off their plates.
like wtf dude you are obviously the worst, get outta here
― Clay, Friday, 20 June 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
it was all soup, too
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 20 June 2014 04:12 (nine years ago) link
Soup in plates? MONSTER.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 20 June 2014 05:00 (nine years ago) link
he makes them eat the soup from his cold lizard hands
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 20 June 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link
The trial is going great:
@everettcook · 1mShelly was walking towards Donald after testifying, and he screamed at her, "Get away from me you pig."
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link