Donald Sterling

Donald Sterling is the former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. And he’s going to stay that way. Donald Sterling, who was essentially show the door by the NBA after he was recorded making obscene and disgusting racist remarks, lost an appeal that he filed to regain the team after his estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, [...]

NBA owners ’round the Association: Duck! Michele Roberts, the NBA Players Association’s Director, has her guns out…and she’s firing away. Since making history in July by becoming the first female union chief in major North American sports history, Roberts has been making waves. She’s been speaking out in favor of players and against a salary [...]

Most unfortunately, here we go again. Atlanta Hawks controlling owner Bruce Levenson will sell his share of the team after self-reporting a racially charged email he sent in 2012. Here’s NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s statement on the matter: [tweet https://twitter.com/NBA/status/508636146146889728] Although the self-reported part of this mess has been played up, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo [...]

Steve Ballmer is officially the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. And it’s about damn time. News broke Tuesday that the NBA had finalized the $2 billion sale of the Clippers to Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO: [tweet https://twitter.com/UnguardedCNN/statuses/499236420486459392] Once again, it’s about damn time. This, truthfully, couldn’t have been done any sooner. Not [...]

Dear Donald Sterling, Please just go away. Signed, A lot of people The Los Angeles Clippers owner is making headlines again—which isn’t to say he ever stopped making headlines. He hasn’t. Not since he was recorded making racially charged comments and banned from the NBA for life. This time, though, he’s looped Kobe Bryant into [...]

On the heels of another delusional tirade by banned Clippers owner Donald Sterling, the Clippers lost 104-98 to the Oklahoma City Thunder. How? How does the team with the best floor leader (Chris Paul), the best coach (Doc Rivers), and best frontcourt (Griffin/Jordan) lose a playoff series? In the critical game 5, the Clippers blew [...]

If Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has his way, LeBron James won’t be playing in the NBA next season. No, seriously, this is not a drill. You are not reading The Onion. This is a real possibility…says Roger Mason Jr. Making an appearance on Jim Rome on Showtime, Mason, the vice president of the [...]

I didn’t know apologizing involves bashing other people? On Monday night, Los Angeles Clippers owner (for now) Mr. Donald Sterling sat down with Anderson Cooper of CNN to talk about the racially driven tape scandal that took the NBA and world by storm. It seemed like through the entire interview, NBA hall of famer Magic [...]

Donald Sterling is out. Floyd Mayweather wants in. Because, of course. New NBA commissioner Adam Silver dropped the hammers of all hammers on Tuesday afternoon when he banned the Los Angeles Clippers owner for life while laying out his intent to force Sterling into selling the team. All of this comes after Sterling was recorded [...]

“Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been,” Author and former Professor Angela Davis said during an interview in 1999. On the heels of the racially charged and offensive comments made by Nevada Cattle Rancher Cliven Bundy, [...]