Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, has been banned from the National Basketball Association for life. “Effective immediately, I am banning Mr. Sterling for life with any association with the Clippers or the NBA,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said this afternoon at a press conference, where he confirmed that a leaked recording of Sterling allegedly making racist remarks was authentic. Silver also announced that he would encourage the NBA Board of Governors to force a sale of the team, which Sterling has owned since 1981.
Sterling was a figure likely known only to basketball fans before this weekend, when TMZ leaked an audio recording of the octogenarian millionaire allegedly telling his girlfriend V. Stiviano not to bring black people to Clippers games and chastising her for posing with Magic Johnson in pictures posted on Instagram. The backlash was severe and immediate, with everyone from the ADL to President Obama condemning Sterling’s comments.
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