{"id":6007,"date":"2014-08-13T08:18:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T12:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2014-08-13T08:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T12:18:06","slug":"the-clippers-have-a-new-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=6007","title":{"rendered":"The Clippers Have a New Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/steveball.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/steveball.jpg?resize=250%2C248\" alt=\"steveball\" width=\"250\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/steveball.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/steveball.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Steve Ballmer welcomed word on Tuesday that he is officially the next owner of the Clippers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The former chief executive of Microsoft said he planned to return soon to Los Angeles Monday for a rally at Staples Center with fans, players and coaches, including head Coach Doc Rivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be thanking the fans and giving them a chance to get to know me and to hear from Doc and some of the players,\u201d Ballmer said, minutes after the NBA released a statement, saying the transaction was completed after a court order confirmed previous co-owner Shelly Sterling\u2019s $2-billion sale. NBA owners voted via email last week to OK Ballmer as successor to Donald Sterling, who controlled the team for 33 years.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Sterling of course had been ousted from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million following his statements in April to his ex boo that he did not want to see her at Clippers games with African Americans. <\/p>\n<p>Asked about his philosophy, Ballmer said, \u201cI told them to be hard core \u2014 to be persistent, to stay at it, to grind, grind, grind. I know the team will do that and I want the team to know that everyone behind them is going to support them in the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Steve Ballmer welcomed word on Tuesday that he is officially the next owner of the Clippers.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[359,807],"class_list":["post-6007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-donald-sterling","tag-matrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-1yT","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/steveball.jpg?fit=250%2C248&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}