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

The NBA has banned Donald Sterling, owner of the LA Clippers, for life from all NBA events and fined him $2.5 million for racially charged comments made to his reported girlfriend, which include: "I ask you... not to bring [black people] to my games" and "It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people," as well as insensitive comments made about Magic Johnson.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said that he's "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." "I fully expect to get the support I need from the other NBA owners to remove him," Silver said.

I agree with LA mayor Eric Garcetti, who said, "I want to thank the commissioner for bringing down the hammer." This debacle was not one to be overlooked or brushed under the rug with a slap-on-the-wrist reprimand; the solution to this had to be considerable. And the scale of this punishment is, indeed, considerable.
The thing is, Sterling has a lifetime of racism behind him. Adam Silver had said that "in meting out this punishment we did not take into account his past behavior... when the board ultimately considers his overall fitness to be an owner in the NBA, they will take into account a life-time of behavior." As other sources covering this story have noted, Sterling has run his team in the style of a "southern plantation," and specifically wanted, as a white man, to be in charge of a team of black people.
As was the case with Cliven Bundy, supporters of the Clippers owner have quickly withdrawn their endorsement. And, it seems, the NBA is ready to withdraw Sterling--and, after their rightful condemnation of Sterling's hateful comments, there is no better move to make.

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