Donald Tokowitz Sterling (born Donald Tokowitz) is an American business magnate and former attorney. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association’s Los Angeles Clippers. Sterling acquired the Clippers in 1981 for $12.5 million, and as of 2014, the team is valued at $575 million by Forbes magazine, ranking them eighteenth out of thirty teams. At 33 seasons of ownership (1981 to present), Sterling has been the longest-tenured owner in the NBA since the death of Lakers majority owner Jerry Buss on February 18, 2013.
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