NBA sets stage for $2 bn Clippers sale to Ballmer (AFP)

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The NBA set the stage for the $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to Steve Ballmer on Friday, halting its efforts to strip Donald Sterling of the club. Sterling's wife Shelly Sterling negotiated the sale of the club to ex-Microsoft chief executive Ballmer on Thursday in a deal that still must be approved by the league's board of governors. "The NBA, Shelly Sterling and the Sterling family trust today resolved their dispute over the ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers," the league said in a statement.

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