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Donald Sterling Vows – “I Will Never, Ever Sell This Team” – Calls His Wife a “Pig!”

Loose cannon Donald Sterling vowed in court on Wednesday to fight the NBA will all his might until his dying day. The racist Clippers owner was forced out by the league for violating owner’s rules and for being a total racist. In a deal reached by his wife to sell the team, Sterling said emphatically that selling is not happening!

Donald Sterling denounced his wife, her lawyers and the NBA from the witness stand Wednesday, saying he would never sell the Los Angeles Clippers and vowing a lifetime of lawsuits against the league.

“Make no mistake today,” Sterling shouted toward the end of his second day of testimony in the trial to determine his wife’s right to make a $2 billion deal to sell the Clippers, “I will never, ever sell this team and until I die I will be suing the NBA for this terrible violation under antitrust.”

He was followed to the stand by wife Shelly, who tried to approach him in the front row of the courtroom after she was done for the day.

“Get away from me, you pig!” Sterling shouted.

The judge then admonished him to make no further comments.

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Donald Sterling Blames “the girl” For his Racist Statements

It is never the racists’ fault,  someone else is always to be blamed. In an interview with CNN, Sterling’s scapegoat was “the girl” who recorded his racist rants.

“I’m not a racist. I made a terrible mistake,” Mr Sterling told CNN. “I’m here to apologise.”

“When I listen to that tape, I don’t even know how I can say words like that,” he said. “I don’t know why the girl had me say those things.”

Sterling, the present owner of the LA Clippers, was recently banned from the the day to day activities of the team and the NBA is currently going through the process of removing him as team owner. But the 81 year old Sterling has decided to fight to maintain ownership, and feels that his past will help him regain ownership.

“I’m a good member who made a mistake,” he said. “Am I entitled to one mistake, am I after 35 years? Am I entitled to one mistake? It’s a terrible mistake, and I’ll never do it again.”

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Oncoming Legal Fight, As Shelly Sterling Insist on Keeping Ownership of Clippers

Shelly Sterling and Donald Sterling

Donald Sterling may be banned for life from the NBA and the Clippers, but not his wife. Shelly Sterling has hired a lawyer and is planning a legal fight to keep her hold on the team.

According to ESPN.

Shelly Sterling has been a co-owner of the Clippers with her husband since 1981 and is one of two alternate governors. The other, team president Andy Roeser, began an indefinite leave of absence Tuesday. The team is owned by a family trust.

“Commissioner Silver made it clear, that when he announced sanctions against Donald, that the NBA was taking no action against me or my family,” Shelly Sterling said in a statement given to ESPN.

She has hired attorney Pierce O’Donnell to represent her interests as the league moves to terminate her husband’s ownership of the team.

“She will not agree to a forced or involuntary seizure of her interest,” O’Donnell said Thursday. “As her lawyers we will fight vigorously to defend her property rights.”

O’Donnell also told The Associated Press that Shelly Sterling has been separated from her husband for the past year and is considering divorce.

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Oprah Winfrey Interested in Buying LA Clippers

Following reports that Donald Sterling will be forced sell his team, Oprah Winfrey, David Geffen and Larry Ellison are considering banding together to buy the Los Angeles Clippers.

Music mogul Geffen told ESPN that he and Ellison (who founded Oracle) would run the Clippers but Winfrey would invest in it.

“Oprah is not interested in running the team,” Geffen told ESPN. “She thinks it would be a great thing for an important black American to own [another] franchise.” An Oprah spokesperson confirmed the report to ESPN, while NBA commissioner Adam Silver said that he’d “always like to see [the league] become more diverse.”

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NBA bans Donald Sterling for life, fines him $2.5 million for racial comments

 

The NBA has banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million for racial comments he made to his reported girlfriend. The NBA will immediately begin working to try to force him to sell the team.

“The hateful opinions voiced by that of the man [on the tape] are those of Donald Sterling,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said. “…I’m personally distraught the views expressed by Mr. Sterling came from within an institution that has historically taken such a leadership role in matters of race relations.”

As part of the ban, Sterling is not allowed “to attend any NBA games or practices, be present at any Clippers office or facility, or participate in any business or player personnel decisions involving the team.” Sterling also will be barred from attending any Board of Governors meetings and participating in any other league activity.

The fine is the maximum the NBA can issue under the NBA constitution, Silver said. Seventy-five percent of the NBA’s owners must vote to oust Sterling to force him to sell.

“I fully expect to get the support needed,” Silver said.

Several groups hoping to purchase the Clippers are already stepping forward with a bidding war expected to exceed $1 billion for the franchise, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Among those groups, Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Partners will be front and center in pursuit of the Clippers.

h/t – yahoo

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Singer Tank Will Not Perform The National Anthem At Tuesday’s Clippers Game

R&B singer Tank has decided not to go ahead with performing the national anthem at Tuesday’s LA Clippers game. You see, Tank is black and based on what the Clippers owner Donald Sterling said, Tank – because of his color – is not allowed.

In explaining his decision to TMZ, Tank said;

“As an African-American man and artist, I must take a stand on a matter that is so deeply personal to me.

“In light of the recent disturbing and offensive allegations, in good conscience, I cannot move forward with my scheduled appearance at Tuesday’s Los Angeles Clippers game.”

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The President’s Message on Racist Remarks Allegdely Made by LA Clippers Owner – Video

Another famous black person is speaking out on the racist remarks allegedly made by the owner of the LA Clippers. In addition to Snoop and Labron James, President Obama, in a news conference with other leaders in Malaysia was asked to weigh in on the racist rants attributed to Donald Sterling, as broadcast by TMZ Sports. The president called the speaker in the audio ignorant, saying “when ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t have to do anything, you just let them talk.”

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LeBron James Has Something To Say To Racist Donald Sterling

Personally, I think all the black players in the NBA including the ones playing for the LA Clippers and their fans, should boycott the LA Clippers. If the racism expressed by Donald Sterling turns out to be true and he prefer blacks not come to his games, then shouldn’t that include the players?

I think it should. The way you hurt rich racists is in their wallet. A black boycott of the Clippers will not end Sterling’s racism, but it may starve the bastard for the duration.

Snoop Dogg said his piece yesterday, and based on the anger he displayed I’m pretty sure he’s done with the Clippers. LeBron James is speaking out now.

Before taking on the Charlotte Bobcats in Game 3 of Miami’s first-round playoff series, James said that if the report is true, then “there is no room for Donald Sterling in our league.”

“It’s unacceptable and as a commissioner in our league, they have to make a stand, and they have to be very aggressive with it. I don’t know what it’s going to be, but you just can’t have that in our league,” James said, via the Miami Herald. The four-time NBA MVP also said he even contemplated not playing. “I kind of wavered back and forth whether I would actually sit out. If our owner would come out and say the things that he said, I would really have to sit down with my teammates, talk to my family because at the end of the day, our family, and our teammates are way more important than that.”

James also wondered aloud what would happened to a player who “came out and said something of that stature” and called on NBA commissioner Adam Silver to “do something very fast and quickly before this really gets out of hand.”

LeBron was not alone. TNT analyst and former NBA star Charles Barkley said Silver”suspend [Sterling] and fine him immediately.” Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson described Sterling’s alleged remarks as a “black eye for the NBA.”

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Snoop Has a Message For The Racist Owner of The LA Clippers

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In case you haven’t heard, the owner of the LA Clippers is trying to outracist the racist Cliven Bundy. News today from TMZ Sports had audio of the owner, Donald Sterling telling his girlfriend, “don’t bring black people to my games!”

Well, black people have ears to hear and sometimes we use them well. BlackTwitter went nuts dogging the racist and they didn’t leave anything unsaid. But when it comes to dogging someone, no one does it better than the head DOGG himself, straight from the doggpound – Snoop Dogg!

In an instagram message, Snoop addressed the racist Sterling, calling him a “bitch A** redneck, white-bread, chicken sh*t mother fu*ker!” And that’s just part of what he had to say!

Snoop’s message – WARNING! STRONG LANGUAGE USED

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