The NBA has known about Donald Sterling for a looong time. Why are the acting so shocked by his comments now? Wikipedia: Donald Sterling Accusations of racism and discrimination In August 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Sterling for housing discrimination in using race as a factor in filling some of his apartment buildings. The suit charged that Sterling refused to rent to non-Koreans in the Koreatown neighborhood and to African Americans in Beverly Hills.The suit alleges Sterling once said he did not like to rent to Hispanics because they smoke, drink and just hang around the building, and that Black tenants smell and attract vermin. In November 2009, ESPN reported that Sterling agreed to pay a fine of $2.73 million to settle claims brought by the Justice Department and Davin Day of Newport Beach that he engaged in discriminatory rental practices against Hispanics, blacks, and families with children. In addition, Sterling was also ordered to pay attorneys fees and costs in that action of $4,923,554.75. In granting the attorneys fees and costs Judge Dale S. Fischer noted Sterlings scorched earth litigation tactics, some of which are described by the Plaintiffs counsel and some of which were observed by the Court. The Court has no difficulty accepting Plaintiffs counsels representations that the time required to be spent on this case was increased by defendants counsels often unacceptable, and sometimes outrageous conduct. In February 2009, Sterling was sued by former longtime Clippers executive Elgin Baylor for employment discrimination on the basis of age and race. The lawsuit alleges Sterling told Baylor that he wanted to fill his team with poor black boys from the South and a white head coach. The suit alleges that during negotiations for Danny Manning, Sterling said Im offering a lot of money for a poor black kid. The suit noted those comments while alleging the Caucasian head coach was given a four-year, $22-million contract, but Baylors salary had been frozen at a comparatively paltry $350,000 since 2003
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