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# NBA Commissioner Adam Silver On Clippers Deal

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## Video: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver On Clippers Deal

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_Published 2014-06-10. NBA Commissioner says Sterling deal to sell the Clippers is not a done deal._


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## Transcript

Well, the Board of Governors still has to approve the sale of the Clippers to Steve Ballmer. But basically what does it feel like to be out the other side of all of this? And I don't have any feeling about it yet, because it's not done. Donald Sterling still has a billion dollar lawsuit. Filed against the league. Against me personally, I'm not so worried about that, because I can't afford it. But there's still a last issue to resolve and that is, Donald dropping his lawsuit, resolving his former issues with his wife. Now his lawyer has said they plan to do that, but are you in a " I'll believe it when I see it mode ?" Absolutely, I've been there with him before.

He's almost sold his club several times over the years. There's, well- noted, incidents in the League when he was right there at a closing, and at the last minute, decided not to sell. And until he signs that document, we still have a pending litigation with him. We all saw you come out for that press conference, which will now be a historic press conference. Give me behind- the- scenes. The 5 minutes, before you walked out to that podium. What was going through your head? What was going on? I generally tend to get a little bit nervous in those situations. I'm not -, haven't walked out on such a large stage, really ever in my career, with that many cameras, that many members of the media.

And, up until the last second, I was literally writing what I was going to say. [ sound effect ] " Effective immediately ". I am banning mister sterling fo life from any association with the clippers organization or the NBA. Alright, what about the 5 minutes after you walked off the podium and had delivered this shell hock bomb to everybody. I didn't have a sense of what a big moment it was. I think until I walked back to the office. I began to have a sense of people coming up to me. So you were walking on the street and people just started talking to you about it. Absolutely, yeah. I began to have a sense of the magnitude of the decision.

That how many people been watching it. You got. Tremendous positive support from the public but there was some criticism. The most [ UNKNOWN ] stories of Donald [ UNKNOWN ] past of why they circulated this. Hey, why didn't you guys do anything about this before? Well, first if you read my emails its not all positive. There are a lot of segmented people out there saying. Similar to what Donald Sterling's lawyer said, this is America. You know, he should be able to say whatever he wants. I mean, in terms of Donald's past behavior, only say what I said at the press conference. Had we ever seen evidence of anything remotely like this, we would have acted on it.

There were lawsuits that were by the Federal Government, by the. Department of Housing and Department of Justice that were settled without any findings. You're right in retrospect, in today's day and age of social media. Just because? Should, would we have approached it differently? Maybe. I know that you don't think that just because someone has money to make their problems go away that, that makes their behavior okay. Yes, he settled. But he was sued over and over again for discrimination. There were depositions, video taped depositions in those cases of people testifying to abhorrent behavior, sexual harassment claims, incredible misogyny.

And just because he had the money to settle, and, and have those never get adjudicated, why didn't you guys launch your own investigation, they way you did in this case? I don't have a good answer for that. Only to say that I was at the league during that time, so I don't wanna run from it, but. It may, maybe theres just a different standard in todays society. I can't say we were even having that discussion. It didn't come to our attention in the same way. And, it seemed maybe beyond our authority but i dont want to make excuses. Clearly there is a different standard now. Partly because of social media but partly because there is a greater awareness of how that behavior can affect people in our league.

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