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“... In 2014, Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for a then-record $2 billion, rescuing the basketball team from the clutches of Donald Sterling, who had been forced to sell after a recording was released in which he made racist comments. Sterling, long known as a West Coast doppelgänger of Donald Trump, was the kind of owner who held his team as merely another asset, content to enrich himself but hesitant to spend much money on it, even if it made the team uncompetitive ...”