Within days of the tapes being leaked, the league took swift, decisive action against the former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.
In 2014, TMZ released audio recordings between the team's billionaire owner, Donald Sterling, and his mistress at the time, in which Sterling made blatantly racist remarks about Black people, including his own players. The tapes sent shock waves through the NBA, with
against Sterling, according to ESPN. The morning after the audio leaked, LeBron James, the executive producer ofwho played for the Miami Heat at the time, said:"There's no room for that in our game. Can't have that from a player, we can't ever from an owner, we can't have it from a fan, and so on and so on. It doesn't matter if you're Black, white, Hispanic or whatever the case may be. We can't have that as part of our game.
Within days, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced that Sterling would be banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million, and that the league would take steps to force him to sell the team. The news came just before the Clippers were set to face off against the Golden State Warriors in game five of their first-round playoff series — and it was a relief for the players, coaches, and fans alike."I felt the energy," Rivers told ESPN about the atmosphere in the Staples Center.
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