Following months of legal challenges by former owner Donald Sterling, the NBA has announced that Steve Ballmer is now the official owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. This week a California court disagreed with a claim by Sterling that his estranged wife, Shelly Sterling didn’t have the authority to sell the team. The NBA banned Sterling for life after he was heard making racist statements on a recording of a leaked private phone call. Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, paid $2 billion for the franchise …