He sits in a conspicuous baseline seat, where he cheers like nobody’s watching. “A team comes up for sale in a city I love that’s near me?” said Ballmer, 68, a former Microsoft executive who lives in Washington state. “You say, ‘OK, but it’s the Clippers,’ and my theory is, you can do anything if you put your mind to …
The year was 1973 and the muggy Michigan summer pulsed with Motown hits such as ““Higher Ground” and “Superstition.” At Detroit Country Day School, the football team wheezed its way up a steep slope known simply as “The Hill” on the backside of the leafy campus. I want people in their seats.” — Steve Ballmer, Clippers owner, on some of …
Jay Inslee presided over a meeting of Clippers and Portland Trail Blazers captains at midcourt before tipoff Monday evening as Lenny Wilkens, the coach of Seattle’s lone NBA championship team in 1979, found his courtside seat. Seattle has long been a basketball city, but for the first time in four years, since the last exhibition between NBA teams was played …
Clippers owner Steve Ballmer talks to media members during a virtual tour of the team’s new arena, Intuit Dome, that is scheduled to open in October 2024. “We’re coming.” So all those Lakers fans who booed you in sports bars, and all those radio hosts who ripped your success on “Los Angeles” sports talk radio stations, and all those Lakers …
