The clippers but an existential crisis for the entire league. Reporters who cover professional basketball already understood things about Donald Sterling. That thanks to this weeks audio dump the rest of the country is now being introduced to. Yeah, it bothers me a lot that you want to promo broadcast that youre associating with black people. Do you have to . Over the weekend, the world all got to know l. A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling a little better. Late friday night the gossip website, tmz sports, published audio of someone purported to be sterling talking to his then girlfriend. You can sleep with them, you can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little i ask you is not to promote it on that and not to bring them to my games. He told her not to bring black people to his games. Nbc news has not been able to confirm the thauthenticity of t recording. Deadspin released an extended version of the exchange. Do you know that you have a whole team thats black that plays f
Hes a halloffamer, a former coach, part owner, and team executive. He also served as president of the Nba Players Association. And jamel hill is a columnist with espn and cohost of numbers never lie. Late today adam silver announced the authenticity of those recordings that set off this firestorm. The nba was fining sterling the maximum amount of 2. 5 million. That was just the beginning. Heres the commissioner. Effective immediately, i a am banning mr. Sterling for life mr. Sterling may not attend any nba games or practices. He may not be present at any clippers facility he may not be involved in any player or personnel decisions involving the team. He will also be barred from attending nba board of governors meetings or participating in any other league activity. We stand together in condemning mr. Sterlings views. They simply have no place in the nba. Wow. Well, commissioner silver also announced he would be pressing for a vote by the leagues owners to force steriling to sell the te
Crisis for the entire league. Reporters who cover professional basketball already understood things about Donald Sterling. That thanks to this weeks audio dump the rest of the country is now being introduced to. Yeah, it bothers me a lot that you want to promo broadcast that youre associating with black people. Do you have to . Over the weekend, the world all got to know l. A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling a little better. Late friday night the gossip website, tmz sports, published audio of someone purported to be sterling talking to his then girlfriend. You can sleep with them, you can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little i ask you is not to promote it on that and not to bring them to my games. He told her not to bring black people to his games. Nbc news has not been able to confirm the authenticity of the recording. Deadspin released an extended version of the exchange. Do you know that you have a whole team thats black that plays for you . Do i know . I support t
Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 249 of the trump administration. Eight months into this administration, and we have several looming crises we are covering tonight. All going on at the same time. There is high anxiety over what will become of health care as the latest effort to repeal and replace obamacare appears to be dead in the water. There is high anxiety over north korea and their read of our president s words as a declaration of war. And anxiety over 3. 5 million americans in peril and in the dark tonight as a real humanitarian crisis is growing now in puerto rico. But through most of this weekend into today, the president s priority has been the National Football league. His comments about owners and players who have taken to taking a knee during the anthem as a civil rights protest, so it was an interesting visual tonight from arizona prior to cardinals cowboys when the cowboys owner jerry jones, whose company, by the way, donated 1 million to the trump inaugura
Administration. Eight months into this administration, and we have several looming crises we are covering tonight. All going on at the same time. There is high anxiety over what will become of health care as the latest effort to repeal and replace obamacare appears to be dead in the water. There is high anxiety over north korea and their read of our preside president s words as a declaration of war. And anxiety over 3. 5 million americans in peril and in the dark tonight as a real humanitarian crisis is growing now in puerto rico. But through most of this weekend into today, the president s priority has been the National Football league. His comments about owners and players who have taken to taking a knee during the anthem as a civil rights protest, so it was an interesting visual tonight from arizona prior to cardinals cowboys when the cowboys owner jerry jones, whose company, by the way, donated 1 million to the trump inauguration, led his players and Coaching Staff in taking a knee