Greater than a decade after he was banned from the NBA, the weird Donald Sterling tales are nonetheless flowing.
Former Clippers star Blake Griffin detailed a clumsy locker room interplay he had with the franchise’s former proprietor throughout an look on “The Adam Friedland Show” this week.
“He would come in with his crew, it’d be like 10-12 people with him in the locker room. And we’d all have towels on,” Griffin recalled. “One time, I’m in a towel, [Sterling] comes over, grabs my arm, and he’s received all his individuals in there and he goes, ‘Let’s hear it for our primary star, hip hip!’ And he raised my arm, and all these individuals go ‘hooray!’
“And I’m sitting there holding the towel going ‘hip hip, hooray!’ He did it three times.”
The No. 1 general choose in 2009 additionally advised the story of a time Sterling advised some in attendance at one in all his white events to the touch Griffin’s ab and arm muscular tissues.
“I was like 19 years old,” Griffin mentioned.
It’s removed from the primary time Griffin, who spent eight-plus seasons with the Clippers, has ripped the disgraced Sterling.
In a 2014 piece for The Gamers’ Tribune, Griffin described Sterling as his “weird uncle,” and acknowledged that he had lengthy identified he was “really, really a racist” and “off his rocker.”
The ex-Clippers proprietor was banned from the league by commissioner Adam Silver in 2014 after recordings by his then-girlfriend V. Stiviano of a racist rant by Sterling — the place he advised Stiviano to not deliver “black people” to his video games — emerged.
Sterling additionally advised Stiviano, “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that [Instagram] and not to bring them to my games.”
Griffin retired from the NBA in 2023 after 13 seasons within the league, making six NBA All-Star groups and 5 All-NBA groups.
Subsequent season, Griffin will function an analyst alongside Dirk Nowitzki and host Taylor Rooks on Amazon’s new NBA studio present.
