(SportsNetwork.com) – The Donald Sterling drama is far from being over.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Clippers owner banned for life from the NBA has threatened to sue the league and claimed, through a lawyer, that he will not pay the $2.5 million fine, according to SI.com.<\/p>\n
Sterling has hired prominent antitrust litigator Maxwell Blecher, who has written a letter to NBA executive vice president and general counsel Rick Buchanan. The letter claims that Sterling has done nothing wrong and that “no punishment is warranted” for Sterling.<\/p>\n
The 80-year-old Sterling recently said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he “is not a racist” and “made a terrible, terrible mistake” in making comments that were released by celebrity gossip website TMZ.com late last month.<\/p>\n
TMZ.com posted nearly 10 minutes of an audio conversation between Sterling and a female friend, in which he tells V. Stiviano he is bothered by her association with African-Americans and asks her not to bring them to Clippers games.<\/p>\n
On April 29, the NBA banned Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million. Commissioner Adam Silver also said that he will urge fellow owners to force Sterling to sell the team.<\/p>\n
The report states that Blecher is arguing that Sterling has not violated any article of the NBA constitution, and that Sterling’s “due process rights” have been violated by the league.<\/p>\n
The league has made Dick Parsons interim CEO of the Clippers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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