Ownership record
Who owns the Los Angeles Clippers?
The Los Angeles Clippers are owned by Steve Ballmer, who paid $2bn for the club in 2014 after the NBA forced a sale and banned the previous owner for life. It was a record price for an NBA team at the time.
The short answer
- OwnerSteve Ballmer
- Owner isthe former Microsoft chief executive
- Owned since2014
- Previous ownerthe Sterling family trust
- Reported consideration2,000,000,000 US dollars
- Assetthe NBA franchise sharing the Los Angeles market with the Lakers
How the deal was structured
Ballmer later self-funded the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, opened in 2024, making the Clippers one of the few US franchises to own their arena outright rather than lease a shared building.
On the money trail board this sits as a 2014 movement of $2.00B between Seattle and Los Angeles, sourced to Wikipedia. Open the full ledger entry.
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