National Basketball Association

Ex-Clippers owner's NBA antitrust lawsuit dismissed

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 4:47 p.m. ET

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LOS ANGELES (AP) A federal judge has dismissed a $600 million antitrust lawsuit filed by former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling against the NBA and his wife Shelly Sterling.

U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin wrote he's skeptical Sterling suffered any injury at all by the sale of the team for $2 billion to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and called other parts of the lawsuit implausible.

Sterling had claimed in the lawsuit filed last year that he could have gotten more than that for the team but the circumstances of the sale reduced the price.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling from the league for life in 2014 over recorded racist remarks that he made to a friend.

Sterling's attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com/