LOS ANGELES -- Steve Ballmer was at his coastal home about two hours outside Seattle when he got the phone call he had been waiting for.
Dennis Robertson, Kawhi Leonard's trusted uncle and adviser, called the LA Clippers owner around 11 p.m. to inform him that Leonard was joining the Clippers. Ballmer didn't want to wake his wife's family sleeping in the house at the time, but he reacted the only way he knows how -- he let out a scream.
"Yeah, a little bit," Ballmer said laughing loudly before clapping his hands while seated in the Blue Chips conference room in the Clippers' downtown office.