LA Clippers owner’s leaked audio recording will turn him into a ‘pariah’
Don Sterling was allegedly heard telling his girlfriend not to bring black people to his basketball games, nor take photos of them on Instagram.
Don’t bring black people to my basketball games.
That’s the message 80-year-old Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling allegedly delivered to his 20-something girlfriend on a tape that was leaked on the gossip website TMZ over the weekend. Among other statements, the man on the tape, purportedly Sterling, says:
It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?
You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in; you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games. Don’t put [NBA legend Magic Johnson] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.
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