There was only one franchise I would have ever contemplated buying the San Diego Clippers.

I'm looking at it like I look at other investments as something over the long term will be enormously

valuable.

And I mean this sincerely, if somebody offered me $30 million for the San Diego franchise,

I wouldn't sell it because I think ultimately one day it will be worth that.

That's Donald Sterling in 1981.

But after he bought his basketball team, the San Diego Clippers, the sale that started

this whole thing in motion.

But Donald Sterling's purchase of the Clippers never would have happened where it not for

a different NBA sale two years earlier.

Jerry Boss paid $68 million for the forum and look what comes with it.

The Pro Basketball Wakers and Professional Hockey Kings.

Because what many people don't know is that before giving Los Angeles its worst basketball

team.

Donald Sterling helped give it its best.

This is episode two, the opposite of Showtime.

In June of 1979, a man named Jerry Boss stood on the brink of making one of his wildest dreams

come true.

This was a self-made guy, a kid from rural Wyoming with a PhD in chemistry who ended up making

his money in LA real estate.

But what Jerry Boss really loved was sports.

And he'd had his heart set in the Los Angeles Lakers for years.

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