Remember Sterling the next time someone projects his private demographic terrors on all the “thugs” in the NBA. In his time as the Clippers’ owner, he has behaved far more repulsively than any wayward player ever suspended by David Stern; if Sterling were a small forward, he’d be looking for a run in Minsk right about now. But he’s an owner and a wealthy real-estate magnate, and for those reasons and no other, a league so concerned about its public image that it tells its players how to dress will happily overlook the fact that Donald T. Sterling is a cheap, whoring bigot.
November 10, 2009