In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

Q: Before V. Stiviano's recordings toppled Donald Sterling from ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, she boasted she would be the next Mrs. Sterling. She would pick up envelopes of cash in an alley behind the family's real estate company and told employees at the firm she would one day be their boss. Those predictions seemed like a fantasy on Wednesday as Sterling's wife went after the $3.6 million that she said the younger woman swindled from community property the couple amassed over 60 years of marriage. Scroll down for video Court battle: 'She's been very, very nasty to me, and she's been mean to my husband': Shelly Sterling testified against V. Stiviano in the nonjury trial in Los Angeles Superior Court on WednesdayThe Sterlings are demanding back items worth $3.6 million that they claim Stiviano swindled from them - including cars and a $1.8 million duplexDonald accused Stiviano of befriending a Hispanic bank employee in order to get her name illegally added to a $1 million checkHe said he only intended to loan her a Ferrari and a Bentley, but put them in her name so he wouldn't be liable if she killed somebodySterling's CFO testified that his boss appeared to be cutting checks for Stiviano and trying to make it hard for them to be tracedOther employees and friends of the millionaire told the court that Stiviano informed them she was going to be the next Mrs. Sterling 
 Question:_, 80, said Stiviano, right, hadn't contributed '50 cents' to the $1.8 million duplex now in her name

A: Donald Sterling
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Q: Los Angeles (CNN) -- Dr. Conrad Murray defended his appellate lawyer from "a slew of disparaging remarks" just days before she files the appeal of the doctor's involuntary manslaughter conviction in Michael Jackson's death. CNN has obtained sections of that 300-page appeal, including the defense argument that the trial judge erred by not allowing the testimony of Dr. Arnold Klein, a dermatologist the defense contended addicted Jackson to Demerol in his last weeks. Murray's appeal, which will be filed Monday, also argues that prosecutors never proved Jackson was hooked up to an IV drip of the drug that killed him. The defense theory was that Jackson had administered the fatal dosage himself while the doctor was away.Murray calls from jail citing "injustice" done to appeal lawyerAppeal lawyer Valerie Wass " took a personal hit for me," Murray tells CNNMurray witnessed Wass and trial lawyer Michael Flanagan argue at the jailWass will file Murray's appeal on Monday 
 Question:"The evidence is consistent with a scenario in which _ quickly self-injected the lethal bolus dose of propofol while appellant was outside the bedroom," the appeal contends.

A: Michael Jackson
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Q: LONDON, England -- American basketball is planning to create up to five new European franchises who would compete for the NBA Championship, according to a report by Sports Illustrated. NBA stars such as Kobe Bryant may soon be seen on a regular basis in Europe. The astonishing claims come hard on the heels of plans by the football's English Premier League to play matches overseas and underline the growing trend of globalization in major sports leagues. This was further evidenced by Super Bowl champions New York Giants playing a regular NFL season game against the Miami Dolphins at Wembley Stadium in London, but the NBA's leaked plans go far beyond that.The NBA is planning a European division of up to five teams claims a reportSports Illustrated say commissioner David Stern will announce expansion planNBA has previously played exhibition games in overseas countries 
 Question:_ sat out the fourth quarter and had the finger X-rayed after the game.

A:
Kobe Bryant
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