Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Continues his Suing Spree

Donald Sterling has proved that he is not going down without a fight.  The NBA Clippers owner has filed a concurrent suit in the Los Angeles high court, seeking damages left right and center from his estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, the Clippers and the NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver.   Sterling is adamant that these parties had no right to attempt to sell the Clippers from under him and says that they violated corporate law by doing so.

This is the third legal front opened by Sterling as he battles to maintain ownership of the NBA team.  He is asking that the court freeze the sale of the Clippers to former Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer in a $2 billion deal.

A probate trial is already underway where Shelly Sterling requested  that the judge allow her to take control of the Clippers, after two doctors found that her husband was not mentally sound to run the team. Clippers Chief Executive Dick Parsons said that should Donald Sterling stay on as owner of the team, it would kick off a “death spiral”.  Already, sponsors, fans and players are getting jittery about the unstable ownership setup.

The team’s best player, Chris Paul, recently told a news conference that if Sterling remained on, he would have to reconsider his place in the Clippers during the 2014-2015 season.  Paul said that there have been talks about staging a players boycott until Sterling is ousted once and for all, calling his presence as current owner “unacceptable”.

Parsons said that losing Paul would be the beginning of the end for the Clippers.

Before Adam Silver banned Donald Sterling from basketball for life, members of the Golden State Warriors planned on staging a court walk-off in protest.  Their minds were only changed when Silver went through with the lifetime ban.