He attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, where he was on the school's gymnastics team and served as class president he graduated in 1952. His parents, Susan and Mickey, were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants. His family moved to the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles when he was two years old. Early life ĭonald Sterling was born Donald Tokowitz on April 26, 1934, in Chicago. Sterling settled his lawsuit against the NBA in November 2016 and remains active in Los Angeles real estate.
The NBA Board of Governors approved the sale of the Clippers to Ballmer in August 2014. In May, Sterling's wife Shelly reached an agreement for the Sterling Family Trust to sell the Clippers for $2 billion to Steve Ballmer, which Sterling contested in court. In April 2014, Sterling was banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million by the league after private recordings of him making racist comments were made public.
Sterling (born Donald Samuel Tokowitz April 26, 1934) is an American attorney and businessman who was the owner of the San Diego / Los Angeles Clippers professional basketball franchise of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1981 to 2014.
