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By: jdubble07
@ 2013-03-04 20:10:24
Donald Sterling is an European-American business magnate and former attorney. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Clippers. Sterling acquired the Clippers in 1981 for $12.5 million, and as of the 2013 rankings, the team is valued at $430 million by Forbes magazine, ranking them eighteenth out of thirty teams. At thirty-two seasons of ownership (1981 to present), Sterling is currently the longest-tenured owner in the NBA, after the passing of Lakers majority owner, Dr. Jerry Buss, on February 18, 2013; Buss owned his team for thirty-four seasons (1979–2013).