his wife sehelly agreed to sell the team for $2 billion. not just a good deal, the most ever paid for an nba franchise. stay with us. a lot more on this bizarre stories twists and turns. i m wondering if there s some info about his mental capabilities as well. if he s mentally incapable, how can you file a lawsuit? three, intelligence officials are trying to find out more about the american who blew himself up in a massive suicide bombing in syria. they believe they know the man s name. manneer mohamed abu saleh and in he grew up in florida. questioning family members, a few friends, and apparently he went to syria to join extremist fighters there. number four, a marine is in a mexican prison for accidentally crossing the border with several guns in his car. marine sergeant andrew tamiressi was punched, left naked in his cell and shackled to his bed
groups use the fact americans are fighting there and now the fact of an american suicide bomber in syria to try to get a lot more recruits to their cause. christi? the propaganda war just as valuable times as that bullet and ground war there. mohammed jamjoom in washington, thank you so much. donald sterling is suing the nba for $1 billion. with a b. the embattled los angeles clippers owner isic taing the league to cord becauurt becauser decision to ban him from games for life and to sell the team. his wife sold the team for $2 billion to microsoft ceo michael ballmer. the most ever. but did ballmer pay too much? s we have more. the question is $2 billion and the rest of that sentence is, for the l.a. clippers. alexandra? reporter: you got it. what s $2 billion worth to you?
principally because he wants to make money. this is someone who s going to take 10% of their net worth and they re going to buy a sports team in l.a., which is going to give them a lot of prestige. reporter: for $2 billion, there s plenty of prestige. a way for the wealthy to diversify investments and we a salary cap in place, nba owners can be protected from dipping into their own pockets. steve ballmer knows if you had runs this team somewhat prudently he s not going to have to put any capital in to the team. if you have $20 billion. not a bad thing. reporter: in january, his list of valuable nba teams, clippers at 13th, worth $755 million. steals price, estimated at $1 billion once donald sterling s racist rant was revealed. the nba should trip over itself, get the documents done approve the transaction and move on to other business as fast as
consent. he s not going to consent. reporter: blecher and sterling are suing the nba for $1 billion in damages calling for sterling s lifetime ban from the league and his $2.5 million fine to be lifted claiming the nba s case against sterling relies entirely on an illegally recorded conversation. it s not clear if the lawsuit would interfere with the sale of the clippers. hours earlier, blecher told us sterling would look at the sale to steve ballmer and decide where to go from there, saying, he doesn t want to fight with shelly. that s the bottom line. anything s possible with donald sterling. with $2 billion on the line, not even donald sterling will mess this up. reporter: the nba announced its resolved disputes with shelly sterling, withdrawing its effort to terminate the ownership of the clippers and cancelling the owners vote on that and in exchange she won t sue the nba and she s going to protect the nba from future lawsuits from donald sterling
pursued different theories of liability against the nba and different theories of why he should be able to keep his team. so certainly if you look at this like the, they are, shelly sterling, the sterling trust, and donald sterling, are all imin aed plaintiff ei named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, yeah, all one plfr acting together, but at different times in the course of this very odd proceeding, they have seemed to be, taking an adversarial relationship. we will see very much in the next few weeks how they circle their wagons. i just want to say, circling back for a second on victor s point, too. if, in fact, donald sterling is of you issering from dementia, he doesn t even have the authority to have a lawyer file a lawsuit. i don t know how a judge is going to resolve that. who started it all? how about that v. stiviano? left out in the cold while the sterlings walk away with $2 billion. you don t know. he could be handed her money.