Lou Williams says Steve Ballmer renovated nearly 500 public basketball courts across Los Angeles to build a new generation of fans because he knew he couldn’t convert Lakers fans “I played for the Clippers. Steve Ballmer got fuck you money. I don’t need no partners. I don’t need no help. He did it by himself. So you know what that do? I don’t got to play politics. I don’t got to do what y’all want me to do. I’mma move how I want to move” “Every single playground in Los Angeles is a Clippers playground. We used to ask him, ‘Why you do the shit that you do?’ He said, ‘I want the Los Angeles Clippers to have an imprint on this city.’ He said, ‘I realize I’m not going to flip a Lakers fan over to a Clippers fan, but I can grow Clippers fans from the bottom up’” “So every kid that’s on a playground, all they know is Clippers. All they know is Clippers. The Clippers put this here. That’s all they know. He playing by a different set of rules” (via @undergrndlounge)