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Shelly Sterling wants her Los Angeles Clippers to win so that she can get a championship ring
The Sterling family continues to be the NBA’s great shame.
The league can argue away using Donald Sterling’s wife Shelly Sterling as a means to an end to oust the former Clippers owner that they should have ousted years ago, but it will never be able to step down from the fact that the league sold out in letting Shelly Sterling remain a technical member of the Los Angeles Clippers as its bogus “Number One Fan” – and by extension a member of the NBA family. The league failed in that regard.
Because Los Angeles is Los Angeles, and because the Sterlings are still the Sterlings, TMZ decided to stake out Donald and Shelly Sterling after a dinner date out on Wednesday night in order to ask how the “couple” is handling their half-estrangement from the NBA.
Via Triangle Offense, here’s what Shelly decided to slur toward the waiting camera:
“I pray they do good,” she said smiling. “I want to get rings. We just want to see ‘em win.”
The NBA declined to remove Shelly Sterling from its ranks earlier this year, and if the Clippers eventually do win a championship, Shelly Sterling will receive a championship ring. That may seem like a meaningless gesture, but it is symbolic of the NBA head office’s Great Big Whiff in its hurry to remove Donald Sterling with alacrity, passing off on Shelly Sterling’s significant misdeeds as just the price of business.
The 6-4 Clippers are in Miami on Thursday night, ready to take on a Miami Heat squad that will likely play without Dwyane Wade and Luol Deng. The potential win could take them one step closer to a ceremony that could see Shelly Sterling on the podium with NBA commissioner Adam Silver and new owner Steve Ballmer.
And the NBA should be ashamed about that.
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