Ex-Microsoft CEO Ballmer buys NBA's LA Clippers for $2 bln (Reuters)

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(removes garble from headline) By Ronald Grover and Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES, May 29 (Reuters) - Former Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer has purchased the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers franchise for $2 billion, a record for a professional basketball team, sole trustee Shelly Sterling announced on Friday. In a news release from Greenberg Glusker, Sterling's counsel, she said she had signed a binding contract to sell the team to Ballmer on behalf of the The Sterling Family Trust, which owns the club. We have worked for 33 years to build the Clippers into a premiere NBA franchise.

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