For Steve Ballmer, Building An NBA Champion Is Harder Than Running Microsoft But More Fun

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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been trying to spend his way to an NBA championship from the start. The problem, of course, is that if money could buy championships, the fingers of both Ballmer’s hands would be weighted down with rings.

Ballmer will finally be his own landlord, he’ll expand his revenue sources, he’ll get out from under the Lakers — his more popular and more successful co-tenants in downtown L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena — and he’ll be able to better pamper his players who, after eight-plus seasons of his generous stewardship, have yet to get within smelling distance of a championship.

Dynamiting the salary cap hasn’t resulted in the Clippers hanging any championship banners from the Crypto.com Arena ceiling, where the Lakers would have 15, starting in 1949 when they played in Minneapolis. The Clippers started the anchor leg of the 2022-2023 season with the team heading south. A five-game losing streak had NBA scouts warning that lackluster results this late in the year usually result in an early playoff exit. Again.

Industry sources have put a target price tag of $75 billion on the NBA’s next multiyear media deal, slated to begin after the 2024 season. Doable? Ballmer will only say that a year from now, after a new agreement is reached, “we’re going to be in much better shape financially.”

 

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