Readers singled out Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in 2005 as the least effective owner in the first year of our survey. Readers would like to say they saw this one coming, but New York Knicks owner James Dolan was the top vote-getter in the next four years of the survey, followed by Sterling twice more, then Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan in 2012 and 2013.
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