Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer To Buy Los Angeles Clippers

May 30, 2014 10:51 AM EDT

Here are the stories TIME is watching this Friday, May 30:

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed to buy the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion, which would make the Clippers the most expensive NBA team ever sold.

As the NSA fired back, Edward Snowden claimed he wrote more emails than what officials have revealed and said the NSA “feels it has something to hide.”

For the first time in history, the National Spelling Bee saw co-champions crowned.

SpaceX unveiled a new state-of-the-art spacecraft that will carry NASA astronauts to and from the International Space System.

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