Donald Sterling’s legal fight over the $2-billion sale of the Clippers appeared to end when a federal judge dismissed the onetime owner’s antitrust lawsuit against the NBA.
In a strongly worded 13-page order Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Judge Fernando M. Olguin wrote that “the court is skeptical Sterling suffered any injury at all, let alone an antitrust injury.”
The judge described other portions of the lawsuit as “plainly insufficient” and “clearly implausible.”
Sterling sued in May 2014 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles the day after his wife, Shelly, agreed to sell the Clippers to Steve Ballmer.