with the latest here's mary bruce who's in l.a. >> reporter: it's a record-setting bid for an nba team. former microsoft executive steve ballmer offering $2 billion to buy the los angeles clippers from embattled owner donald sterling. >> i don't think there is anything that donald sterling can say to the nba owners to convince them to let him keep the team. >> reporter: the nba is trying to force sterling to sell, punishment for his infamous racist rant. sterling has already been kicked out of the game for life, slammed in the court of public opinion, benched for his comments about african-americans by the nba, but he isn't budging. his lawyer says sterling will fight until the bloody end. meanwhile, his wife shelly sterling is moving ahead with the sale, taking bids just days before the nba hearing to oust her family from ownership. >> don is sensitive of her efforts and appreciative of her efforts. skeptical her efforts will produce a resolution of the problem.