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In April 2014, Sterling was banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million by the league after private recordings of him making racist comments were made public. [2] NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who announced Sterling's suspension, said he would "immediately" recommend to the NBA board of governors that Sterling be forced to sell the team ...
I n April 2014, a tape was leaked of 80-year-old then-Clippers owner Donald Sterling making racist comments to his 31-year-old mistress, V. Stiviano, an incident that ballooned into one of the ...
The L.A. Clippers managed a tenuous situation by leveraging their power to oust owner Donald Sterling, who was caught on tape spewing racist remarks.
The racist comments "united hard-core basketball fans and sports neophytes, celebrities and everyday people, young and old in their condemnation of the 80-year-old Sterling." Read more: A timeline ...
Clippers president Andy Roeser issued a statement the following day, indicating that his organization was unsure if it was a legitimate and unaltered recording, that the sentiments attributed to Sterling did not reflect Sterling's views, and that the woman on the recording was being sued by the Sterling family and had "told Mr. Sterling that ...
The actors, showrunner and writer of Episode 3 of "Clipped" discuss the scene where the team debates whether to boycott a playoff game in protest of Donald Sterling and his racist comments.
Donald Sterling was the previous owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, who was banned from the NBA for life for racially insensitive remarks he made about African-Americans. After seeing a picture that his then-girlfriend, V. Stiviano, posted with Magic Johnson , Sterling was recorded saying:
The cast and crew of the series, premiering June 4 on Hulu, explain how their telling of the Clippers owner's ban from the NBA took on 'Shakespearean' proportions.