After promising to fight the NBA, Donald and Shelly Sterling have reportedly agreed to sell the Los Angeles Clippers.
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According to ESPN and USA Today, Donald Sterling will voluntarily transfer his shares of the basketball team to his estranged wife, who will negotiate a forced sale of the team. The NBA’s Board of Governors has scheduled a vote on June 3 to force Donald Sterling to sell the club that he has owned since the early 1980s.
The NBA fined Sterling $2.5 million and imposed a lifetime ban after tapes in which he made remarkably racist comments to his assistant (and possibly girlfriend) surfaced on the internet.
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Shelly Sterling, who has a stake in the team as well, had also promised to fight to hold on to partial ownership. Reports say that she plans on trying to maintain a minority stake in the team, but the NBA is adamant about purging all Sterling connections to the franchise.