As the Clippers struggled through a playoff loss in Oakland, the pressure on team owner Donald Sterling mounted Sunday with the release of additional minutes of a racially charged recording and a flurry of denunciations from President Obama, NBA players, fans and even the NAACP that had sought to honor him.
The comments about blacks that were attributed to Sterling show "the United States continues to wrestle with the legacy of race and slavery and discrimination," said Obama during a visit to Malaysia. "When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk. That's what happened here."
Two websites posted recordings over the weekend that they identify as a conversation between Sterling and a female friend. A person the websites identified as Sterling can be heard castigating the friend for associating with blacks — even though Sterling's team and the league it plays in are 80% African American.
The NBA is investigating the remarks, which have yet to be authenticated, and a decision on possible punishment for Sterling is expected soon. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA player who serves as an advisor to the league's players union, said the harshest possible sanctions must be considered by the league.
A lawyer for the woman, V. Stiviano, said Sunday that the tapes were "legitimate" and that they came from a conversation that was roughly an hour long. The lawyer said his client didn't leak the recording to the media.
As the league delves into the matter, calls to punish the 80-year-old owner are growing within NBA ranks. The Clippers themselves took the lead in repudiating Sterling. Before Sunday's game, they took off their warm-up tops and tossed them in unison near the jump-ball circle, revealing their shooting shirts turned inside-out to hide the Clippers logo. They wore black wristbands and black socks.
NBA legends continued to chime in.
"I'm completely outraged," said a statement from Michael Jordan, owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, echoing sentiments made by NBA star LeBron James, former All-Star Charles Barkley and Lakers legend Magic Johnson a day earlier. "There is no room in the NBA — or anywhere else — for the kind of racism and hatred that Mr. Sterling allegedly expressed."
Also, the L.A. chapter of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People announced that it would not give Sterling a lifetime achievement award he was scheduled to receive next month.
Sunday's extended version of the recording — nearly six extra minutes released by Deadspin that add to the roughly 10 minutes the gossip site TMZ made public Friday night — appeared to worsen matters for Sterling.
After discussing Stiviano's Internet posting of pictures with Magic Johnson and Dodgers star Matt Kemp, the person Deadspin identified as Sterling tells her, "Don't come to my games. Don't bring black people and don't come."
They bicker for a while, and then the male voice tells her: "It's the world. You go to Israel, the blacks are treated like dogs."
"And are the black Jews less than the white Jews?" Stiviano asks.
"A hundred percent," he says.
"And is that right?" Stiviano asks.
"It isn't a question," he replies. "We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture, we have to live within that culture."
He adds that he can't change the culture. Of himself, he says: "I don't want to change."
He can again be heard continuing to castigate Stiviano for associating with African Americans.
Later, Stiviano, who describes herself as black and Mexican, asks if he's even aware that his team is mostly black.
"Do I know?" he says. "I support them and give them food, and clothes and cars and houses."
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