Disgraced L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been captured on on audio yet again engaging in an emotional, elongated rant with racial overtones.
"I grew up in East L.A. I was the president of the high school there. I mean, and I'm a Jew. And 50 percent of the people there were black and 40 percent were Hispanic. So I mean, people must have a good feeling for me," RadarOnline.com reports Sterling shouted during a phone call recorded after his lifetime ban was handed down.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver moved to suspend him for life and imposed a maximum $2.5 million fine against him after he was captured on video telling his rumored girlfriend "not to bring black people to his games."
During the call, the league's longest tenured owner also vows to fight the NBA's demands that he now sell his team and completely disassociate himself with the NBA.
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"You think I'm a racist?" the website adds Sterling continues. "You think I have anything in the world but love for everybody? I mean, how could you think I'm a racist knowing me all these years? How can you be in this business and be a racist? Do you think I tell the coach to get white players? You can't force someone to sell property in America. I'm a lawyer, that's my opinion."
At one point during the phone conversation, the 81-year-old Sterling is asked if he had talked to mixed-race star Blake Griffin since the initial incident was made public. "I didn't talk to anybody," Radar reports Sterling answers. "I'm in my house in Beverly Hills."
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Since league officials made it known they plan to force Sterling into selling the franchise, such celebs as Oprah Winfrey, Sean "Diddy" Combs, David Geffen and Oscar dela Hoya have all expressed at least a preliminary interest in buying a team expected to sell for upwards of $1 billion.
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