LOS ANGELES, California – Doc Rivers' shell-shocked team was in a film session Tuesday, trying to do the one thing that had proven so difficult in recent days: focus on basketball. Rivers, the Clippers' fatigued but resilient head coach, decided it was time to break the news: their controversial owner had been banned from the NBA for the rest of his life.
NEW YORK – The NBA banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fined him the maximum $2.5 million Tuesday for "deeply offensive and harmful" racist comments that sparked a national firestorm in the United States.
