A week after announcing that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling will be banned for life, there are no clear information about how NBA will come up with a precise legal strategy to get the approval from the league owners to force him to sell his team.

For the first time last Tuesday, NBA revealed a part of its constitution stating that there are existing grounds to remove a team owner if that individual failed or refused to execute the contractual obligations to the league, yet the contracts that Sterling may have violated after he made several racist statements during a private talk with his alleged mistress V. Stiviano is still uncertain.

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The said private conversation was made public by the gossip website TMZ.

Sources who knows about what strategy NBA will use have mentioned that Sterling indeed violated actual contracts, in case the Clippers owner would decide to try to challenge the league's decision to force him to sell the team.  

NBA should be able to come up with the required 75 percent league's owners approval to proceed with the move.  

One of the said contracts signed by Sterling when he initially bought the team back in 1981 stipulated that an owner should not do any action that will have an adverse effect on the league or the team represented.

Team owners are also asked to sign the moral clauses about being responsible for upholding the highest standard of moral and ethical behavior of the league.

When moral clauses are used to terminate agreements, such as endorsement deals, the courts are asked to interpret who among the opposing parties are right, yet sources who knows about the legal strategy of the league trust that they have enough evidences to force Sterling to put the team in the market.