Tag: Basketball

New Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, center, fires up the crowd as he speaks at the Clippers Fan Festival on Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Steve Ballmer debuts as LA Clippers owner

Beth Harris · August 18, 2014 10:53 pm

FILE - In this March 2, 2010, file photo, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer speaks in Santa Clara, Calif. Ballmer is officially the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. The team says the sale closed Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, after a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling, on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, to sell the franchise. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)

Steve Ballmer becomes owner of LA Clippers

Beth Harris · August 13, 2014 7:17 am

With her attorney Pierce O'Donnell, right, Shelly Sterling, center, talks to reporters after a judge ruled in her favor and against her estranged husband, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, in his attempt to block the $2 billion sale of the NBA basketball team, outside Los Angeles Superior Court Monday, July 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Judge OKs record-setting $2B sale of Clippers

Brian Melley · July 29, 2014 2:46 am

Big Ideas: On basketball, prisons and Kansas

Joseph Lawler · July 18, 2014 3:20 pm

FILE - In this March 10, 2007, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James reacts to a shot made by teammate Anderson Varejao during the final seconds of the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game in Milwaukee. James told Sports Illustrated on Friday, July 11, 2014, he is leaving the Miami Heat to go back to the Cleveland Cavaliers. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

LeBron James returns to Cavs: ‘I’m coming home’

Tom Withers · July 12, 2014 4:29 am

Four time-NBA MVP LeBron James announced Friday in an essay published in Sports Illustrated his decision to leave the Miami Heat and move his considerable talents and the prospect of an NBA championship back to Cleveland. (AP Photo)

Ohio lawmakers giddy over LeBron James’ return

Sean Lengell · July 11, 2014 8:44 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2012, file photo, a Cleveland Cavaliers holds a sign and yells as Miami Heat's LeBron James is introduced before andanNBA basketball game against Cavaliers in Cleveland. James told Sports Illustrated on Friday, July 11, 2014, he is leaving the Miami Heat to go back to the Cleveland Cavaliers. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

James’ return to Cleveland could complicate GOP

Philip Elliott · July 11, 2014 7:30 pm

Four time-NBA MVP LeBron James announced Friday in an essay published in Sports Illustrated his decision to leave the Miami Heat and move his considerable talents and the prospect of an NBA championship back to Cleveland. (AP Photo)

What the White House thinks of LeBron James returning to Cleveland

Brian Hughes · July 11, 2014 6:05 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, talks with retired Chinese basketball star Yao Ming, left, about his efforts against international wildlife trafficking as the two participate in an event about combating trade of animal remains, during the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)

Energy and Environment

Rejected! Yao Ming says no to wildlife trafficking

Bradley Klapper · July 9, 2014 10:34 am

Shelly Sterling, the estranged wife of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, arrives at a Los Angeles courthouse with her attorney Pierce O' Donnell, Monday, July 7, 2014. With the potentially record-breaking $2 billion sale of the Clippers hanging in the balance, a trial beginning Monday will focus on Shelly Sterling had the authority under terms of a family trust to unilaterally negotiate the deal. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Sterling trial gets underway after delay

LINDA DEUTSCHTAMI ABDOLLAH · July 8, 2014 1:58 am

Ballmer brings cheer, competitiveness to Clippers

Ryan Nakashima · June 2, 2014 8:52 pm

NBA owners to vote on sale of Clippers

Tami Abdollah · May 31, 2014 3:09 am