Donald Sterling’s Lawyer Vows To ‘Fight To The Bloody End’

In this photo taken on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, center, and V. Stiviano, right, watch the Clippers play the Sacramento Kings during the first half of an NBA basketball game, ... In this photo taken on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, center, and V. Stiviano, right, watch the Clippers play the Sacramento Kings during the first half of an NBA basketball game, in Los Angeles. The NBA is investigating a report of an audio recording in which a man purported to be Sterling makes racist remarks while speaking to his Stiviano. NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in a statement Saturday, April 26, 2014, that the league is in the process of authenticating the validity of the recording posted on TMZ's website. Bass called the comments "disturbing and offensive." (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) MORE LESS
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Donald Sterling doesn’t sound like a man willing to roll over, with a lawyer for the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner saying Tuesday that his client “is going to fight to the bloody end” in the NBA’s pursuit to terminate his ownership of the franchise.

The defiant vow followed reports last week that Sterling had agreed to allow his wife, Shelly, to negotiate the forced sale of the Clippers.

The NBA is calling for a June 3 meeting of the its board of governors to vote on whether to terminate Donald Sterling’s ownership as part of the league’s punishment for racist remarks he made to his girlfriend, V. Stiviano.

Sterling’s attorney, Max Blecher, told ESPN that his client has no intention of selling the team.

“I don’t know what agreement [Shelly Sterling] has with him, but I’m saying to you today, he disavows anything she’s doing to sell the team,” Blecher said. “He says, ‘It’s my team, and I’ll sell it when and if I get around to it.'”

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  1. Spoken like a true warrior,…paid by the hour.

  2. Avatar for meri meri says:

    …yet gets paid whether or not they succeed. Man, I should switch to consulting already.

  3. Donald trades a tramp right arm for a lawyer right arm that knows it’s getting a Bentley up front.

  4. Avatar for darcy darcy says:

    Cash Cow baby! Let the litigation begin!

  5. Funny, but when I went to law school, Contracts was a first-semester, first-year course. Sterling’s attorney seems to have ditched those classes.

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