Steve Ballmer Couldn’t Contain His Excitement While Introducing Kawhi Leonard And Paul George

Steve Ballmer is worth more money than most humans can ever even begin to comprehend. As such, Ballmer, back in 2014 decided to use his vast wealth to buy the Los Angeles Clippers. This has had a major impact on basketball, but it’s also played a major role in letting basketball fans know that Steve Ballmer is … let’s call it animated.

Ballmer was part of the Clippers contingent that met with the media on Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles, where the team introduced its two newest additions, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. But before that could formally happen, Ballmer took the mic, and because he is who he is, he immediately turned things up to 11.

It is extremely weird to see a team’s owner act like this, because they’re generally expected to be the boring rich person who cuts checks and sits courtside at games. Ballmer, instead, makes the usually-animated Mark Cuban look like James Dolan. So when he decided to go all-out during the George and Leonard presser, the Twitterverse responded in kind.

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Ballmer also did this, and if you’re better with computers than I am and want to set this to the “Get On Your Feet” by Gloria Estefan, I would really appreciate that.

At one point, he got really stoked about Leonard, and looked like he wanted to jump out of his chair and give him a big hug.

Wednesday was a very good day for the Clippers. No one was happier about it than the guy who owns their team.