Faced the golden state warriors, good evening, im gasia mikaelian. Half an hour, but this pivotal game is being overshadowed by a bigger story, by clippers owner Donald Sterling, now banned by the nba for life. Donald sterling, the maximum punishment possible for racially charged comments he made to his former girlfriend. Sterling has owned the clippers longer than any owner of any Major Professional Sports Team for more than 30 years. So far, here are the penalties against sterling, he is banned from life for any association with the clippers or the league. The nba also fined him 2 and a half million, the maximum fine allowed, also urging the nba to force sterling to sell the team, a move embraced tonight by the warriors head coach, mark jackson. The views expressed by mr. Sterling are deeply offensive and harmful. That they came from an nba owner, only heightens the damage and my personal outrage. I dont think this is something that, you know, we rejoice in. Or anything like that. Um