nabl. three, they want to know what kind of punishment he will face. four, they want to make sure the commissioner will work with the union during the investigation. and five, may want to make sure the commissioner carries out the process quickly so the focus can return to the playoffs. i want to play this now, this recording allegedly of donald sterling telling his girlfriend don t bring black people to clippers games. listen. but they make you very rich.
money, but if you know about this guy s character, then what is that for you as a agent? do you say listen, you should know this before you go there? now it s definitely going to be part of it. if there are kids that are coming out of college, we have a draft here in new york june 26. there are kids that are going to do workouts for the los angeles clippers, that their entire life has been basketball and their one shot to go into the nba. it s not their decision. if they get drafted to go to the clippers and he s still owner, what are the kids going to do? paul, let s get to the legal angle of this. california is a two party state, you re supposed to notify somebody when recording them. was he set up? he certainly was set up. if she recorded it in california, she s violated criminal law and could face charges herself. however, we ve seep this happen in the past. it won t stop the evidence from being used in a lawsuit or by
we re bringing you extended excerpts this hour from the recordst purported to be nbc team opener donald sterling. the voice on the recording makes racist comments. here s an extended clip of the voice purported for sterling and his girlfriend. they re talking about skin color, race, and photos of her with african-americans.
taking paul s comment one step further, he s right. this has been reported to the hr of the clippers. under california law, what hr has to do now is fire donald sterling. because if they don t fire donald sterling, all of these players are living in a hostile work environment within the l.a. clippers organization. so you have two options to summit up, the nba needs to kick donald sterling out of the league. or number two, follow employment law in california, and they now have a legal obligation to remove him as the owner of the clippers. let s keep doc rivers in town, keep chris paul in town and let s not lose the clippers, please. david? sterling has to go, there s no question about it. there s no doubt in my mind. i m representing these players. i know they re not happy about it, we re not happy about it. in order for that organization to be saved, he s got to go.
panel. brian, you hear the voice of supposedly donald sterling talking about living within a culture. what do you think he means by that, american society, the nba, los angeles culture, what is he talking about? he s worried about one thing, his image. that s all he s worried about. donald sterling, over and above the opener of the clippers, is a big time business guys. he owns a ton of properties in los angeles. he makes a lot of money that way, too. so he s only worried about his image. that s what he was talking about earlier with these instagrams and people are calling him up, why is your mistress with magic johnson? he s more worried about that than getting to know his players. i realized why i m so angry about this. i ve been a die hard clipper fan and season ticketholder for a decade. i ve known in the background, don, that this has happened. that some of this has been going on through the lawsuits he s