“Steve Ballmer finally has an NBA outlet for his rah-rah displays of emotion as the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers,” Beth Harris reports for The Associated Press. “The former Microsoft CEO’s record $2 billion purchase of the team was confirmed by a Los Angeles judge on Tuesday, clearing the way for the avid pickup basketball player to take over the team from Donald Sterling, who unsuccessfully fought his estranged wife over the sale.”
“‘We’re a family that likes basketball,’ he told The Associated Press in a phone interview,” Harris reports. “Ballmer, who lives in the Seattle area, said he hopes to attend a lot of Clippers games next season. He said interim CEO Dick Parsons has agreed to stay on for the time being. ‘That gives me a chance to figure this all out,’ he said.”
MacDailyNews Take: Ooh, wait’ll Balmy “figures it all out!”
“‘Really excited — in a pretty hardcore way — to continue the path to making the Clippers a better and better basketball team, and a better and better citizen of the Los Angeles community,’ Ballmer told the AP,” Harris reports. “Shelly Sterling lamented losing the team, but Ballmer gifted her with the title of ‘owner emeritus.’ She will receive two floor seats, 10 other seats and parking at Staples Center for games. ‘I am confident that Steve will bring the city a championship team in the very near future,’ she said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Ballmer has already changed the team’s logo:
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Really excited — in a pretty hardcore way
‘I rebuke you spirit of Ballmer. I command to go directly to Yeshua, without manifestation and without harm to the Clippers or anyone, so that He can dispose of you according to His Holy Will.’
From one braying ass to another…
The MDN logo is fantastic.
If a logo was fashioned around Balmy, consider the LIPPERS. Glistening tongue wagging out of mouth with a basketball piercing dead center … 😉
The MDN Clippers logo is good…but could be improved to better reflect the new owner, Stevie B. Make the eyes more manical, and a wagging tongue that sticks out. 🙂
And shouldn’t that iPad displaying ^IDIOT^ be present somewhere? 🙂
Dummy
maniacal
Monocular
Funicular
Funiculi funicula.
Ohhh! So predictable. What a disappointment. haanhjs wins.
hannahjs
I think you win, because nobody else seems to know that old Italian song—but they’re all over Taylor Swift, though, with her ‘Love Story’ hit. Funny, though; the story of Romeo and Juliet is even older.
When youngsters think the old is new, I flash back to “As tears go by”
I sit and watch as tears go by. But time is on my side.
The Los Angeles Microsoft Excels.
Use the acronym, if you’d prefer.
I’d like to read his 31-page letter he sent to the players….
That Clippers logo, that’s late night material. MDN, start throwing that around the web. That there’s funny.
Bye bye, Clippers.
Dribblers dribblers dribblers!
The team will simply copy everything the LA Lakers do, but in some proprietary way that only appeals to corporate season ticket holders.
Anyhow, they better bolt those chairs to the floor.
I wonder how long it will be before the team crashes or freezes.
Who cares…?😏😤