NBA SUSPENDS DONALD STERLING FOR LIFE
- wwetvsports21
- Apr 29, 2014
- 1 min read
The NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has just announced that Donald Sterling who owns the Los Angeles Clippers has been suspended for life. He has also been forced to sell the team.
During a press conference on Friday, Silver said the NBA concluded the recordings were accurate and Sterling has been banned for life from the Los Angeles Clippers and the NBA. Sterling is henceforth barred from attending games, practices, team facilities and board of governors meetings. Silver also fined Sterling $2.5 million, the maximum allowed by the NBA, and the funds will go to anti-discrimination efforts.
Additionally, Silver will urge the league's board of governors to exercise its powers and exercise Sterling as an owner from the NBA. That would require a 3/4 vote, as we learned yesterday. Yahoo!'s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported that Sterling will be banned for life. Silver sounded like a man possessed to make sure this ghost never haunts the league again. "I will urge the board of governors to exercise its authority to force a sale of the team and will do everything to ensure it happens," he told reporters.
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