Steve Ballmer's biggest bet wasn't buying the Clippers or keeping them in L.A., but building the Intuit Dome in the heart of the Lakers' ancestral home.
He sits in a conspicuous baseline seat, where he cheers like nobody’s watching. The large balding man in long sleeves roars with every splashed basket, gestures with every scintillating pass, face reddening, arms flailing, celebrating so hard he once ripped a hole in his dress shirt. He could be any die-hard Clippers fan, with one exception. He owns the team.
” As the richest owner in North American professional sports, he had the wealth and influence to move the bedraggled franchise to a city far away from the big brother Lakers, perhaps even into his adopted hometown of Seattle. Yet he doubled down and not only kept the Clippers in town but spent another $2 billion to build his own arena: the glitzy Intuit Dome, which is scheduled to open in October in Inglewood. “It was clear to me, we had to have our own home, our own identity,” Ballmer said.
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