The scandals overshadowing the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers continue after a recording was leaked in which team owner Donald Sterling makes racist comments to his girlfriend V. Stiviano, of African American and Hispanic origins.
The latest news in the matter is the controversial exit of Andy Roeser, president of the Clippers, who according to the BBC, is taking indefinite vacations while the United States' National Basketball Association (NBA) prepares the documents to sell the team.
The spokesman for the Los Angeles Clippers said that Roeser's exit will allow the team to start again with a clean slate, after the life ban the NBA gave to Sterling.
After the recording filled with racist statements and the drastic measures taken by NBA authorities, a new recording was leaked in which Donald Sterling breaks silence and greatly annoyed claims that "I'm not a racist".
The recording published by TMZ is between Sterling a friend to whom the former owner of the Clippers expresses his sadness regarding Magic Johnson's attitude. "It breaks my heart that Magic Johnson, a guy I respect a lot, didn't get up and say 'Well, let's go to the fact, let's find him and talk to him', nobody tried, nobody!" said Donald in the telephone call recorded with his consent.
On his part, in an interview with the ABC, V. Stiviano, Donald Sterling's girlfriend and who apparently conspired with a friend to leak the controversial recording, assured that she does not consider Sterling to be a racist person, just a businessman from another time and that what he says might not really be what he thinks.
In an interview with Barbara Walter, Stiviano said that she thinks that Sterling should apologize for the expressions he used against minorities; however, she said that under her criteria, the owner of the Clippers is not racist.
"I don't believe that in my heart. On the contrary, through his actions he has shown he is not racist, but a generous and kind man."
"I think that what he says is not what he fells. Anyone can say anything in the heat of the moment. I think that mister Sterling is from a different generation than I. I think he was raised to believe those things. Segregation. Whites and blacks," said Stiviano.
The young woman of African American and Hispanic origins said that Donald feels "tormented and emotionally traumatized," and said that she plans to be with him to support him.
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