On May 4, 1981 Levin sold the Clippers to Donald Sterling for $13.5 million.

The owner, Donald Sterling, has long been viewed as being among the cheapest in professional sports.

"On the other hand, if you have rooted for this franchise over the years and lived and died with Donald Sterling, at this point you're delusional."

Donald Sterling has owned the Clippers for twenty-five years and has never gone once.

Donald Sterling - current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Adding to the Clippers' woes have been numerous injuries, and questions about whether their owner, Donald Sterling, will keep the team together next season.

Since Donald Sterling purchased the team in 1981, the Clippers have had one winning season - 1991-92, when Larry Brown took over as coach.

Knowing that the owner, Donald Sterling, did not intend to keep them together, they understandably played one-on-one ball in an attempt to raise their stock in free agency.

But until the frugal owner, Donald Sterling, begins committing to the players over the long haul, the lottery beckons.

Earlier this season, he was almost on his way to Miami for Glen Rice, but the Clippers' owner, Donald Sterling, killed the deal.