Full Coverage: Donald Sterling controversy
On April 25, TMZ posted an audio recording in which Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling told companion V. Stiviano he didn’t want to see her around African Americans. His rant followed Stiviano’s posting on Instagram of a photo in which she posed with former Lakers great Magic Johnson.
Days later, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver fined Sterling $2.5 million, banned him from the league for life and asked fellow owners to jettison their longest-tenured colleague.
Here is some of The Times’ coverage.
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A review of the NBA in the year 2014. The highs • Waving goodbye to “The Donald.”
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Baseball fans remember Bill Veeck mostly for his bizarre stunts.
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Gillian Zucker isn’t easily intimidated.
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Donald Sterling wants to question NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and V.
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Steve Ballmer delivered many lessons this fall to the 80 students who squeezed their way into his much-anticipated class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Professional sports team owners will no longer be able to write-off league penalties from their taxes under a new law signed Monday by Gov.
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The billionaire suitors came one after another, pulling up to the beachfront mansion just steps up the coast from the exclusive Malibu Colony.
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Steve Ballmer’s $2-billion offer for the Los Angeles Clippers — nearly four times the record sale for an NBA team — has experts puzzling over how the former Microsoft chief plans to make any money on the deal.
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The NBA announced that the sale of the Clippers was all but done Friday, and billionaire technology magnate Steve Ballmer said he is ready to pull the franchise out of chaos and “live out the dream and make this kind of America’s team.”
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Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has won a frenetic bidding war for ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, with a $2-billion offer that would set a record price for an NBA team.
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Racing to sell the Clippers before being stripped of ownership by the NBA, co-owner Shelly Sterling received at least three preliminary offers for the team that could reach up to a record $2 billion, according to three people familiar with the process.
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Donald Sterling, guilty in the court of public opinion, is unlikely to be gracing the sidelines of Staples Center any time soon.
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Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling is mounting a hurried sale of the team that her husband, Donald, bought 33 years ago and could name a prospective new owner by the end of the week, according to people familiar with the situation.
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After the Mark Wilshire Towers changed hands, several building staffers showed up at Darryl Williams’ apartment one day with a woman who he said threatened to fine him for leaving two carts of his dirty laundry and other items in the hallway.
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An initial round of bidding for the Los Angeles Clippers closed Wednesday with at least three potential buyers making offers and predicting that the winner will pay well over $1 billion, according to three people involved in the sale.
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Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling is mounting a hurried sale of the team she and her husband have owned for 33 years and could name a prospective new owner of the NBA franchise by the end of the week, a person familiar with the situation said.
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Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling would like to allow his wife, Shelly, to negotiate the forced sale of the NBA team in order to end a monthlong furor surrounding his racially charged remarks about African Americans, The Times confirmed Friday.
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Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s desire for his wife, Shelly, to negotiate the forced sale of the franchise would only proceed if the NBA allowed her to “retain some ownership,” a Sterling confidant said Friday.
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Could it be that Donald T. Sterling’s business acumen overcame his litigiousness?
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After weeks of signaling that he would fight hard to hold on to the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling launched a new strategy Friday that would transfer full ownership of the team to his wife, Shelly, a source close to the family said.
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Her broken ankle. His aching heart. Marques Johnson’s ruptured disk. Bill Walton’s bum foot.
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday his “confidence level is high” the league will be able to force Donald Sterling and his wife to sell the Clippers in a timely fashion.
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More than the gloves will come off when Dr. Phil sits down with V. Stiviano.
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Call it the most spectacular slam dunk in professional basketball history.
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Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling released a statement before Game 7 of her team’s first-round playoff series against the Golden State Warriors on Saturday saying she supported the NBA’s move to work with the franchise to appoint a new CEO.
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The publicity campaign promised a new summer program at Point Dume for poor children, funded in part by the Donald T.
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In an op-ed piece for Time magazine, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar questions whether the reaction to Donald Sterling is entirely fair.
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This isn’t the first time the NBA has moved to oust Donald Sterling as Clippers owner.
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An apartment tenant and managers claimed the wife of embattled Clippers owner Donald Sterling denigrated African Americans, Latinos and once posed as a health inspector, according to court records.
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With paparazzi tracking her every move, V.
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has wrapped a news conference in which he announced the NBA’s punishment of Donald Sterling for controversial comments Sterling allegedly made about blacks.
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The National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People announced Sunday that Donald Sterling will not receive an honor amid controversy over a recording said to be of the Clippers team owner making racist remarks.
