LA WEEKLY has a rather lengthy, yet startling look into Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s claim that he’s building a $50 million homeless shelter, as announced by his various LOS ANGELES TIMES full page advertisements the last two years.
Since the ads began, construction has not begun on the facility, nor have meetings with other homeless shelters ever gone anywhere. And a lot of folk are convinced the “project” only exists to help one person — Donald Sterling. Poor kid. I hope he can make it through another day with his billions of dollars. Read more…
T.J. Simers scores the rarest of exclusives, a wide-ranging interview with L.A.’s most lovable slumlord and purveyor of prostitution, L.A. Clippers Owner Donald T. Sterling. Yippee!
Later in the piece, Sterling says Al Thornton will be a good player if “he gets some coaching.” And Corey Maggette would be a better player with “aggressive coaching.”
So take one guess why Dunleavy isn’t fired already.
KTXL reports Johnson owns “dozens” of properties in the Oak Park district of the city, but they “sit vacant or are in disrepair“.
Now a group of residents is protesting Johnson’s lack of action. More from Ms. Ware: “He’s let a lot of his properties go down the tubes and because of that, a lot of people are suffering and in pain, and he has to realize that.”
Contractor Jeff Guillot, who works with Johnson’s development company, said his goal for the Oak Park residences was “Tightening up the buildings, just nailing the boards back on the siding, that kind of thing.”
Now that’s what we call development! To be fair, Kevin Johnson is just getting started in the real estate business, and he’s got a long way to go to catch up to everyone’s favorite slumlord-turned-NBA-owner Donald Sterling (who we want to personally thank for the rent-control crack houses on L.A.’s Westside).
• ANONYMONITY SUITS PAY-FOR-SEX L.A. CLIPS OWNER: We’ve been walking the Venice Beach boardwalk daily for some time now, and in all those years down there, we’ve never seen ANYONE wearing a suit. Let alone a black suit-black shirt ensemble in the middle of summer.
That changed Saturday when we observed Donald Sterling in the middle of freak central, strolling through thousands of unwashed commoners in a black pinstriped suit - accompanied by a 30-something paid companion friend. And we’re happy to report that not a single soul recognized him.
And what are we thinking?! Those of you outside the 213 area code probably don’t know who the hell we’re talking about either. Just think Jerry Buss (septuagenarian strip club purveyor) without the rings.
• We think we know why Curt Schilling is sandbagging the season. Apparently the Red Sox blogger (38 PITCHES) now has some serious competition on the web.
• Michael Hiestand of USA TODAY for some reason kept the sound on during The Open - and he was rewarded by finding out how Nick gets his kicks: “when the leaderboard tightened and (ABC-TV) analyst Nick Faldo used an analogy you’ll probably never hear from him when he’s an analyst on CBS’ coverage of The Masters:
