Donald Sterling has added his wife, Rochelle, and two doctors as defendants in his federal lawsuit against the NBA over the forced sale of the Clippers, alleging that they were part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to remove him as the team’s owner.
The amended complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles accuses Rochelle Sterling of “secretly” working with the NBA and Commissioner Adam Silver to sell the Clippers to Steve Ballmer for a record $2 billion.
Silver, who banned Sterling from the NBA for life and fined him $2.5 million in response to inflammatory comments he made about African Americans in a recorded conversation, is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit.