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UDPATED, 2 PM: The Los Angeles Clippers are now official owners of the Forum.  Clippers owner Steve Ballmer closed a deal Monday to purchase the Forum from Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. The close of escrow comes six weeks after Ballmer-backed CAPSS LLC announced it had agreed to pay $400 million for the…

Three Los Angeles sports franchises are banding together with the Staples Center to provide financial support for hourly event staff affected by canceled sporting events at the facility amid the coronavirus outbreak. In a joint statement Saturday, the NBA’s Lakers and Clippers and the NHL’s Kings said they are working…

The NBA game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers scheduled for Tuesday night at Staples Center has been postponed in the wake of Lakers legend Kobe Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash Sunday. The game will be rescheduled at a later date. The NBA said in a statement today: “The decision was made…

Quibi has acquired a documentary series about the scandal that led to former Los Angeles Clippers owned Donald Sterling being forced to give up his NBA franchise and being banned from the league for life. Blackballed, which counts Will Packer among its executive producers, highlights the five days during the 2014 NBA…

There’s lots of NBA buzz in Los Angeles this year, with both the Lakers and the Clippers adding star players during the off-season and expected to contend. So the teams’ opening-night matchup was a strong local draw Tuesday night.. Despite going against the end of a tight World Series Game 1, the second game of the…

A debate over white culture between Los Angeles Clipper forward Sam Dekker and Bronson Koenig, a former University of Wisconsin teammate, has caused an uproar on Twitter. The problem started when Koenig, who is part white and Native American, tweeted out an article that questioned white people’s culture. Dekker rose…

Blake Griffin, the face of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise and the biggest basketball star in the city, has been traded to the Detroit Pistons. The stunning swap comes just seven months after Griffin signed a massive $171 million free agent deal that was supposed to cement his place as a Clipper for life. He now…

Now that he’s finally owner of the Los Angeles Clippers after a summer of courtrooms and controversy, Steve Ballmer has mapped out his retirement, and it no longer includes Microsoft. The day after ebulliently leading a Clippers fan festival and making the rounds of ESPN and seemingly every sports-talk radio show on…

Days before her official retirement, Barbara Walters showed youngsters how it’s done, scooping her rivals one last time to land an exclusive interview with the woman involved in the hottest story of the moment. Walters just did a sit-down with Donald Sterling's confidante V. Stiviano, whose taped conversation with the…

The Los Angeles Clippers capped this weekend’s media reaction to racist comments allegedly made by team owner Donald Sterling by staging a silent protest before Game 4 of their play-offs run today, wearing their red warm-up shirts inside out to conceal the Clippers logo ahead of Sunday afternoon’s 118-97 loss to the…