[外電] Clippers owner Donald Sterling has an answer for everyth
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If you had one question to ask Donald Sterling, what would it be?
"Why do you run your own picture so much in advertisements in the L.A. Times?"
Sterling's response: "I like the way I look.''
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And so it went Monday at the Clippers' practice facility, Sterling of good
cheer for an owner of such a failing organization and taking on all questions
while the team unveiled new uniforms since they don't have any new players to
showcase.
The lightweight uniform with holes in it, seemingly tailor-made for the
Clippers although everyone in the league will have them, was fitted to a
mannequin with its head cut off — reminding everyone of Baron Davis running
the Clippers' offense, Davis wearing No. 5 this season because No. 1 never
did fit.
A couple of months ago this was going to be the summer of all summers for the
Clippers, a fresh start, a chance to hire a new coach, $17 million in cap
space to go after LeBron or other big names like him and make a huge splash.
And so they signed Randy Foye and Ryan Gomes.
Or, as Sterling put it, "If I really called the shots we wouldn't have signed
Gomes and what's the other guy's name?
"You know, they told me if we built a new practice facility we'd attract all
the top players in the game," Sterling adds. "I guess I should have doubled
the size of this place."
He's no different than most Clippers fans.
"I swear to you, I never heard of these guys," Sterling says, "but what if
the coach says he wants them?"
The new coach is Vinny Del Negro, confident and cocky at first like all the
other Clippers coaches who have come and gone, Del Negro saying he did a
great job in Chicago and Sterling saying he's been told by the Bulls' owner
that Del Negro was his favorite guy.
So how come the guy was fired after two years?
"I really like the coach," says Sterling, Del Negro standing across from him,
"but then I guess I've said that every time I've hired a new coach."
In addition to hiring the Bulls' reject, as the summer of all summers go,
this one smelled from the outset, inexplicably Sterling and Mike Dunleavy
locked in a dispute over what he was owed after Dunleavy's departure. Same
old Clippers.
Sterling says he can't understand why LeBron didn't listen more intently to
the Clippers' overtures, which included $100 million and unstated things
being done by Staples Center to enhance the L.A. invite.
But picture LeBron sitting there, free agency yet to begin, and reports out
of Los Angeles the Clippers are pinching pennies and embroiled in a public
dispute with their former coach and last two GMs.
"If you resign from The Times, what rights do you have?" Sterling says. "The
lawyers say [Dunleavy] quit."
He says the NBA deals in litigation every day, missing the point the Clippers
cannot afford such messy nonsense when trying to rehab a horrendous
reputation.
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