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Q: The deal also needs the eventual approval of three-fourths of the 30 NBA owners, but is expected to clear that hurdle as long as Ballmer reaffirms his pledge to keep the team in Los Angeles and not move it to home in Seattle. ||||| Shelly Sterling announced late Thursday night that she has signed an agreement to sell the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer for $2 billion. 
  
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 A source close to the situation told ESPN's Ramona Shelburne that Sterling and Ballmer signed the final papers of the sale shortly before midnight at the offices of her Los Angeles-based attorneys. Sterling announced she was acting under her authority as the sole trustee of the Sterling family trust, which owns the Clippers. 
  
 "I am delighted that we are selling the team to Steve, who will be a terrific owner," Sterling said in a statement. "We have worked for 33 years to build the Clippers into a premiere NBA franchise. I am confident that Steve will take the team to new levels of success." 
  
 Donald Sterling bought the Clippers in 1981 for $12.5 million. 
  
 Ballmer, who previously had been involved in a failed bid to buy the Sacramento Kings and relocate them to Seattle, released a statement saying he was "honored" by the opportunity. 
  
 He has said both publicly and privately that he will not relocate the Clippers from Los Angeles. 
  
 "I love basketball," he said. "And I intend to do everything in my power to ensure that the Clippers continue to win -- and win big -- in Los Angeles. L.A. is one of the world's great cities -- a city that embraces inclusiveness, in exactly the same way that the NBA and I embrace inclusiveness. I am confident that the Clippers will in the coming years become an even bigger part of the community." 
  
 Shelly Sterling became the sole trustee of the Sterling family trust very recently, sources told Shelburne and ESPN's Darren Rovell, when her husband, the Clippers' controlling owner, was found by experts to be mentally incapacitated. Initially, both Sterlings were the trustees, but the findings by neurologists made Shelly Sterling the sole trustee, empowering her to sell the team to Ballmer. 
  
 The rules of the trust did not require a court hearing first to declare Donald Sterling, 80, incapacitated. That allowed Shelly Sterling to negotiate directly with Ballmer and the league to sell the team. 
  
 The agreement will be sent straight to the NBA for final approval, sources told Shelburne. It must be approved by the league office, and Ballmer must be approved by three-fourths of the league's owners. 
  
 Donald Sterling's lawyer, Max Blecher, confirmed that evaluations were performed on his client, but he wrote to Shelburne in an email Friday that the results of the neurologists' examinations were "grossly exaggerated" and that "Mr. Sterling is far from mentally incompetent." In similar comments to CNN, Blecher said it was determined that Sterling had "modest mental impairment," "a slowing down." The evaluations were performed earlier this month, a source told Shelburne. 
  
 Blecher also told CNN that Sterling "doesn't want a fight with Shelly. That's the bottom line." 
  
 Bobby Samini, another attorney for Donald Sterling, told the Los Angeles Times, "There's been no sale. There can be no sale without Donald's signature." 
  
 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer signed an agreement to buy the Clippers for $2 billion. Noel Vasquez/GC Images/Getty Images 
  
 Shelly Sterling and Ballmer proceeded with their deal, despite the threat of legal action by Donald Sterling, because they were, as one source put it, "very confident the sale would go through" even if there were "bumps in the road or delays." 
  
 Shelly Sterling had pushed to negotiate a sale before Tuesday's board of governors meeting at which both of the Sterlings' ownership interests could be terminated, while Donald Sterling had vowed to fight the league's attempts to force a sale. Through his personal attorney, Donald Sterling sent a 32-page response to the league this past Tuesday, but the rebuttal did not address Sterling's mental capacity as part of his defense. Shelly Sterling told the "Today" show earlier this month that she thought her husband might have been developing dementia. 
  
 Blecher had told ESPN in an interview Wednesday that "when this thing first happened, [Donald Sterling] was kind of like in a trance. It was like a state of shock. His whole system was disoriented." 
  
 Sterling's mindset at that time led to a May 22 letter from his longtime personal attorney, not Blecher, informing the NBA that his client intended to sell the team and had given his wife authority to negotiate for him. Blecher said Sterling had changed his mind since then and "as time has evolved, he's come to a much more hard-line position" and "was the old Don I knew. ... Now he says, 'Look what they've done to me. I'm not going to take this lying down.'" ||||| Clippers owner Donald Sterling, shown in 2012, has been banned from all NBA activities. (Photo: Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports) 
  
 Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling does not have the authority to stop a $2 billion sale of his team because he has been determined to be mentally unfit to make decisions related to the family trust, a person familiar with the situation told USA TODAY Sports. 
  
 The Sterling Family Trust owns the team, with Donald and his wife Shelly each owning a 50% share. The trust spells out provisions and procedures related to the mental capacity of the trustees, and Donald Sterling did not meet the standard in a determination by experts, giving his wife sole decision-making power for the trust, the person said. 
  
 Shelly Sterling reached a deal Thursday with former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to sell the Clippers for a record $2 billion. The contract was sent to the NBA for approval a few days before the league's Board of Governors was set to vote on whether to terminate the Sterlings' ownership of the team. 
  
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 As part of the deal, Ballmer gets 100% of the team, though Shelly Sterling still could be involved in the franchise in some other capacity, the person said. 
  
 "Shelly Sterling was acting under her authority as the sole trustee of the Sterling Family Trust which owns the Clippers," said a news release issued late Thursday by Shelly Sterling's representatives. 
  
 "I am delighted that we are selling the team to Steve, who will be a terrific owner," Shelly Sterling said in the statement. "We have worked for 33 years to build the Clippers into a premiere NBA franchise. I am confident that Steve will take the team to new levels of success." 
  
 Donald Sterling's attorneys didn't return calls Thursday night from USA TODAY Sports. After Sterling authorized his wife in writing last week to sell the team on his behalf, his attorney this week said he had reversed course, did not want to sell and instead wanted to fight the NBA, which banned him for life on April 29. 
  
 But Shelly Sterling continued to entertain offers for the team even as her husband's attorney said he did not want to sell. 
  
 Now it's up to the league to approve the deal and possible further battles with Donald Sterling, if he chooses to fight to keep the team he bought in 1981 for about $12 million. 
  
 In a statement released through Shelly Sterling's law firm, Ballmer said he was honored to have his name submitted to the NBA Board of Governors for approval as the next owner of the Clippers. 
  
 "I love basketball," the statement from Ballmer said. "And I intend to do everything in my power to ensure that the Clippers continue to win – and win big – in Los Angeles. LA is one of the world's great cities – a city that embraces inclusiveness, in exactly the same way that the NBA and I embrace inclusiveness. I am confident that the Clippers will in the coming years become an even bigger part of the community. I thank Shelly Sterling for her willingness to entrust the Clippers franchise to me, and I am grateful to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and his colleagues for working collaboratively with me throughout this process." 
  
 Bank of America assisted the process, along with Shelly Sterling's legal team of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger. 
  
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 Married more than 50 years, Donald and Shelly Sterling said they are separated but have not filed for divorce. Their marriage and ownership of the Clippers has become a nearly daily public issue since last month, when a recording of Donald Sterling was leaked to the gossip site TMZ. In the recording, he is heard making racially charged remarks about African-Americans in a private conversation with his female companion, V. Stiviano. 
  
 While acknowledging his comments were "uneducated" and "hurtful," Donald Sterling said the recording was made without his consent and therefore was illegal and could not be used against him in any proceeding. It's not clear who leaked the recording, but it might have been prompted by a lawsuit against Stiviano filed by Shelly Sterling, who sought the return of assets given to Stiviano from her husband. 
  
 After the recording became public, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Donald Sterling for life, fined him $2.5 million and said he would move to force a sale of the team. The ban only applied to Donald Sterling, but the league said an ownership termination would apply to Shelly Sterling's 50-percent stake as well. 
  
 Brent Schrotenboer is an investigative and enterprise reporter for USA TODAY Sports. Contact him on Twitter or via e-mail. |||||
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Donald Sterling has been declared mentally unfit to run the Sterling Family Trust, the entity that officially owns the Clippers, and hence cannot block the sale of the team to Steve Ballmer, sources tell USA Today and ESPN. Shelly Sterling put out a press release last night saying that she was selling the team "under her authority as the sole trustee," authority that she apparently gained when unspecified "experts" declared her 80-year-old husband incapacitated. Under the trust's rules, doing so doesn't require a court hearing. Sources said Shelly Sterling and Ballmer signed final papers authorizing the sale just before midnight. Sterling said she was "delighted" and that Ballmer would be a "terrific" owner, while Ballmer promised not to try to move the team—the ex-Microsoft CEO once put in a bid for the Sacramento Kings with the goal of moving them to Seattle. After initially giving his wife permission to sell the team, Donald Sterling had reportedly changed his mind. "There's been no sale," one of his lawyers said just yesterday. "There can be no sale without Donald's signature." A source tells ESPN Shelly and Ballmer went ahead with the deal even in the face of such a statement due to their confidence "the sale would go through."