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Don Sterling: I Wish I Had Just Paid Her Off



We ain't gonna forget Sterling.
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Don Sterling: I Wish I Had Just Paid Her Off
Sterling dont give no shyts, Ill give him that much
Donald Sterling, the disgraced owner of the Los Angeles Clippers who has been banned for life by the NBA for racial remarks, spoke Friday for the first time since the scandal broke.
"I wish I had just paid her off," Sterling told DuJour.com, referring to ex-girlfriend V. Stiviano, the woman behind the audio tape published by TMZ on which Sterling made disparaging racial remarks.
Stiviano was the woman Sterling was talking to on the recording.
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According to the person who conducted the interview, Sterling "expressed remorse" but is limiting further comments to interviews with Barbara Walters and the NBA.
Sterling had kept a low profile since NBA commissioner Adam Silver banned him for life and fined him $2.5 million on Tuesday. Silver has urged the league's owners to force a sale of the Clippers.
Sources have confirmed to ESPN.com that Sterling also is battling cancer.
The news was first reported late Thursday night by the New York Post. The Post, citing sources, reported that the 80-year-old Sterling has been battling prostate cancer for an extended period of time.
Since Sterling's ban was announced, there have been no shortage of suitors who have expressed an interest in potentially purchasing the Clippers.
Oprah Winfrey, David Geffen and Larry Ellison will join together in a bid to buy the Clippers if the NBA's board of governors votes to force Sterling to sell the team, Geffen told ESPN's Jeremy Schaap on Wednesday.
Geffen said he and Ellison would run the team, while Winfrey would be an investor.
Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. and music mogul Sean Combs both claimed interest in buying the team Tuesday, as did real-estate tyc00n Rick Caruso.
Magic Johnson, Mark Walter and their Guggenheim Partners group, which made the billion-dollar purchase of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2012, also are possible bidders, though sources have told ESPN that any such discussions were premature at best.
Johnson, who was specifically mentioned in the recorded conversation involving Sterling, laughed off the suggestion he should buy the Clippers in an appearance on ESPN on Sunday night, saying he was focused on bringing the NFL back to Los Angeles.
Phil Mushnick: Donald Sterling Was Lynched
Look, is there anything even worth saying about this? New York Post hack Phil Mushnick, as we've previously reminded you, is a race-baiting troll whose job is basically to come as close to just filing a column consisting of the word "moulinyan" written out 800 times as he can without getting fired. Anyway, he's weighed in on the Donald Sterling affair, and his takeaway is that Sterling was lynched. There's some shyt in there about how Jalen Rose and Drake are the real racists, etc., but really, that's it, the main thing, the rhetorical core of the argument: Donald Sterling was lynched.
[O]n Tuesday, the NBA set its social and racial sensitivity bar at its highest rung. It lynched a mean old fool who committed the crime of being overheard speaking like one.
Given that there's clearly literally nothing this @sshole can write that will cost him his job, he really may as well just write out "moulinyan" 800 times. It would be an improvement.
Phil Mushnick: Donald Sterling Was Lynched
NONESterling dont give no shyts, Ill give him that much