Steve Ballmer has reportedly reached a deal to buy NBA side Los Angeles Clippers for $2bn. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
The former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has won the bidding for the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers franchise with a $2bn offer, a source with knowledge of the bidding said on Thursday.
Ballmer outbid two groups, one led by media mogul David Geffen which included TV chat show queen Oprah Winfrey and offered $1.6 billion and another from Los Angeles investors who bid $1.2 billion.
An official representing Ballmer had no immediate comment.
The Clippers came up for sale after the NBA banned owner Donald Sterling for life because of racist remarks he made in a recorded conversation that was leaked last month to TMZ.com.
Sterling, who has vowed to fight the NBA's punishment, would have to approve the sale, as would league owners
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