Ballmer buys the Clippers

[markem]

Ballmer is an original softie (Microsoft employee). He is passionate and has always seen the MS way as the best way. Not surprising that he'd dis the competition. In that arena, admitting that your competition has a very good product is likely to cause a stock drop.

What will be interesting, provided that the sale goes through, is if he can modify his rhetoric to the more polite world of the NBA.