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MONTREAL - Guy Lapointe knows who hell be thinking of as the Montreal Canadiens retire his No. 5 jersey on Saturday night.First his father Gerard, and then his former teammates and mentor Claude Ruel, the Habs coach when Lapointe broke into the National Hockey League in 1970-71.Ive been thinking about this every day ever since (Canadiens owner) Geoff Molson told me about it in June, said Lapointe.Lapointes will be the 18th Habs jersey to be retired and marks the last of the Big Three defencemen from the Habs juggernaut team of the 1970s to get the honour — Serge Savards No. 18 was retired in 2006 and Larry Robinsons No. 19 in 2007.Im happy hes being honoured while hes alive, said Yvan Cournoyer, one of several teammates, including Savard, Robinson, Rejean Houle, Pierre Bouchard, Pierre Mondou, Yvon Lambert and Mario Tremblay, who will attend the ceremony.He was an exceptional player and a great person.The ceremony will begin 30 minutes before the Canadiens play the Minnesota Wild, where Lapointe has been a scout since 1999.Cournoyer knows from his own ceremony in 2005 how memorable an evening it will be for Lapointe.Its even better than getting inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, said the man known as The Roadrunner for his blistering speed.Its quite the honour when you think of all the players who have worn the Canadiens jersey in more than 100 years. When the banner goes up, its your whole life and entire career that youre seeing.You tell yourself that all the sacrifices, the injuries, the scars, were worth it. And that youd be ready to do it all over.Houle remembers Lapointe as someone who used to love driving forward into the other teams zone.It was, get out of the way. He had such acceleration and a powerful shot.When Lapointe cracked the NHL, he was able to play with boyhood idol Jean Beliveau.In fact, Lapointe says his best memory from his playing days is his very first game that 1970-71 season, a year that ended with him scoring 15 goals and earning the first of his six Stanley Cups.He had no weaknesses, said Savard. He was very good offensively but also defensively.Lapointe played 777 games with the Canadiens, scoring 166 goals and adding 406 assists for 572 points.He also played for the St. Louis Blues and the Boston Bruins before ending his stellar career in 1984. His final tally: 622 points, including 171 goals, in 894 games.Lapointe, 66, also represented Canada in the thrilling Summit Series against the Soviet Union in 1972 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993.He was known for his pranks, including cutting laces and underwear, putting shaving cream in skates and slipping ketchup into shoes.He likes having fun and spreading it, said Houle. Air Max 720 Scontate . The 29-year-old from Port Colborne, Ont., who trains out of San Diego, will fight bantamweight champion (Rowdy) Ronda Rousey on July 5 in the co-main event of UFC 175 in Las Vegas. Vapormax Outlet Italia .5 million, two-year contract with the San Francisco Giants on Thursday, a deal that covers his final two arbitration seasons. http://www.airmaxshoponlineitalia.it/sco...lus-outlet.html. -- The anointed starting quarterback for the Oakland Raiders is strengthening his hold on the position this training camp instead of losing it. Air Max Plus Saldi Sconti . 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The NBA Board of Governors had previously approved the sale. "Really excited -- in a pretty hardcore way -- to continue the path to making the Clippers a better and better basketball team, and a better and better citizen of the Los Angeles community," Ballmer told The Associated Press in a phone interview. The bizarre drama began in April when a recording surfaced of Donald Sterling scolding his girlfriend for bringing black men to Clippers games. The audio spurred the NBA to ban Sterling for life and fine him $2.5 million. Sterling was apologetic after the audio recording went viral, but his mea culpa backfired when he criticized Lakers great Magic Johnson, who had been photographed with Sterlings girlfriend, as a bad role model for kids because he had HIV. The 80-year-old real estate mogul was roundly condemned from locker rooms to the Oval Office, where President Barack Obama called Sterlings remarks "incredibly offensive racist statements." With the NBA threatening to seize the team and auction it, Sterling initially gave his wife of 58 years permission to negotiate a sale but then refused to sign the Ballmer deal. He said he would sue the league instead and then revoked the trust, which his lawyers said effectively killed the deal. Shelly Sterling removed Donald as a trustee after doctors found he had symptoms of Alzheimers disease. Adam Streisand, Ballmers lawyer, said Tuesday that Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas signed the order authorizing the sale even if Donald Sterlings attorneys filed an appeal. He said even if Donald Sterling seeks an emergency order directing the judge to vacate his order, the lawyer is confident an appellate court would agree that Levanas made the correct decision. Donald Sterlings lawyers werent immediately available to comment. The sale ends some troubling concerns that had surrounded the team in recent months.dddddddddddd Doc Rivers would possibly have quit as coach if Sterling remained the owner, interim CEO Richard Parsons had testified. All-Star point guard Chris Paul, who also is president of the Players Association, might have sat out and convinced other players to join him. Sponsors who already started to flee after the Donald Sterling recording was released might have stayed away for good. None of that appears to be a problem with Ballmer taking over what could be a powerhouse team next season. By agreeing to the record purchase price, hes already proven hes willing to spend in contrast to the famously frugal Sterling, long regarded as the worst owner in the NBA. "The topic of conversation with Doc earlier was to focus in on what does it take and how can I help support him in achieving our mutual mission and in a pretty intense way continue to improve, be tenacious," Ballmer said. "If we do all that, good things will come our way." Ballmer was nearly an NBA owner last year before owners chose to keep the Kings in Sacramento, rather than allow them to be sold to a group that included Ballmer and moved to Seattle. Now hes got his own team to share with his wife and three sons. "Were a family that likes basketball," he told the AP. Ballmer said he fell in love with the sport as a seventh-grader in his hometown of Detroit. He was manager of his high school team, which included keeping statistics. Two of his sons have played the game, while the youngest has been a statistician for his high school team in the Seattle area, where the family lives. Ballmer said he hopes to attend a lot of Clippers games next season. He said Parsons has agreed to stay on as CEO for the interim. "That gives me a chance to figure this all out," he said. Ballmer wants to put the controversy in the past and focus the team on being "a great citizen in the community for a diverse set of folks," including the NBAs predominantly black players. "Were going to do our best on that," he said. "I know that is high on Docs list, its high on my list to do that. We also have to be a phenomenal basketball team, play really well as a team and have great success on court. Were going to work on all those things." Ballmer agreed to give Shelly Sterling the title of "owner emeritus." "I am confident that Steve will bring the city a championship team in the very near future," she said. ' ' '