It seems like everybody wants to buy the Clips. Everyday we get word of another person wanting to buy the franchise.
Today’s candidate (via Mashable) is former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer. He’ll meet with the “estranged” wife of Donald Sterling, Shelly to discuss buying the franchise this weekend.
But here’s something interesting. Ballmer is conveniently a Seattle man… Now there’s many people that want the Sonics back. (including me, I love their kits) Imagine if he did that.
But alas. That’s not Ballmer’s motive. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal he indicated that he would keep the Clips in LA should he be the owner.
I don’t work anymore, so I have more geographic flexibility than I did a year, year and a half ago. Moving them anywhere else would be value destructive.
Sorry Seattle. Still ain’t happening. He is retired after all. He may need something to do. And owning an NBA franchise is not bad a venture.