NBA’s Clippers Raid Baseball’s Angels for Arena General Counsel

June 30, 2021, 10:55 PM UTC

The Los Angeles Clippers have looked to a separate major sport to recruit a new top lawyer for their new home, hiring general counsel Alexander Winsberg from Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Angels.

Winsberg, who has spent nearly the past nine years in-house for the Angels, is poised to become the new chief legal officer for the Inglewood Basketball and Entertainment Center and The Forum, an iconic Los Angeles arena. Chris Wallace, a Clippers spokesman, confirmed Winsberg’s new role.

Both the Clippers and IBEC are controlled by former Microsoft Corp. CEO Steven Ballmer, who paid $2 billion to ...

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