The National Basketball Association said on Friday that it has reached an agreement with the estranged wife of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell the team, opening a new chapter for the franchise after 33 years under Sterling.
Donald Sterling said the NBA has no basis for stripping him of ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers.
Donald Sterling reportedly is threatening to sue the NBA for his life ban for making racist remarks in a private conversation.
Basketball great Earvin \”Magic\” Johnson shrugged off the latest character assault leveled at him by Donald Sterling, calling the Los Angeles Clippers owner \”delusional\” and suggesting Sterling acted out of desperation to keep the NBA from seizing his team.
Two weeks after he was banned by the NBA for racist comments, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling broke his silence with a televised apology for his \”terrible mistake\” while insisting he was \”baited\” into making the remarks.
Donald Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers owner banned for life from the NBA for making racist comments, publicly apologized in his first interview since the remarks were made public.
After days of enduring endless airings of the most repulsively racist audio recordings in recent memory, most of us rejoiced when National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver swiftly delivered a lifetime ban upon Donald T. Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, from any contact with his own franchise.
Recent comments attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the NBA\’s Los Angeles Clippers who was banned for life from the team by the league’s commissioner on April 29, have been denounced as racist by numerous area Jewish organizations, some of which have received donations amounting to tens of thousands of dollars from the embattled owner.
The National Basketball Association banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling from the game for life and fined him $2.5 million for racist comments made public over the weekend, the league\’s commissioner said on Tuesday.
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