Media empress Oprah Winfrey may get into yet another game: NBA ownership.
According to ESPN, Winfrey is considering teaming with David Geffen and Larry Ellison for a bid to buy the Los Angeles Clippers from Donald Sterling, who is facing massive pressure to sell the franchise as part of sanctions stemming from his infamous racist rant.
Sterling is heard on an audio recording scolding his girlfriend, V. Stiviano, for posting Instagram photos of herself with black acquaintances and for bringing them to Clippers games.
Winfrey was outspoken in criticism, saying Sterling’s comments were indicative of a “plantation mentality,” though on Tuesday she had said, “I won’t be buying the Clippers.”
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday: “I fully expect to get the support I need from the other NBA owners to remove him.”
Geffen and software billionaire Ellison were previously tipped as candidates to purchase the Clippers in bidding that may tick toward $800 million. Lakers great Magic Johnson, with financial backer Guggenheim Partners, also is considered a front-runner.
The Clippers rank as the 13th most valuable team in the league, according to Forbes, at an estimated $575 million. But the team likely would sell for millions more, on the promise of a rich new cable TV contract. A sports investment banker told The Post’s Josh Kosman the Clippers could sell for as much as as the Nets, valued at $780 million.