Tuesday, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Larry Dietz said. The death cast a pall on what has been a joyous season for the Clippers, normally an NBA doormat but now among the league's best teams. The team is in first place in its division and had a franchise-record 17-game winning streak that was snapped Tuesday. The 77-year-old Sterling, a billionaire real estate mogul who purchased the team in 1981, had no immediate comment, nor did the team. Los Angeles County Sheriff's officers stand outside an apartment building where Scott Sterling, the son of the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, lived in Malibu on Wednesday, Jan.2,2012. Scott Sterling was found dead of an apparent drug overdose at his Malibu home, authorities said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) Close The death at a beachfront apartment building on Pacific Coast Highway was discovered after a friend of Scott Sterling called police after not hearing from him for several days, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Deputies found the body and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. In 1999, the then-19-year-old Sterling was arrested for shooting his friend with a shotgun.