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Q. Did you ever have any run-ins with Donald Sterling and uh anything about him that stood that that stands out that you can still remember? Cuttino Mobley: What was weird to me right and I just let it go is that as soon as we finish playing and we go to the locker room he was coming in there with people like you know you take your clothes off and you’re butt naked. Like it was like art or like the zoo. He was like ‘Look, take at look at this specimen. You see this one? Look how tall that is. He's got dreads…’ You felt like that. Paul George: Like you were at an auction.

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And you got any Donald Sterling stories? Darius Miles: Not really. Like, you know, me and Q kind of felt he was weird. So, you know, we kind of kept our distance. You know, at the white party, we'd walk in there for about 15 minutes, and as soon as we shook everybody’s hands and kissed the babies, we were out. You know what I'm saying? So we really didn’t— I think one of the weirdest things that he always used to do was just come in the locker room after the game with guys like half-naked and kind of, um, give you that uncomfortable type feel or look. You know what I'm saying? That’s probably the creepiest thing that he was doing.

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Duane Rankin: ESPN's Stephen A Smith just apologized to Suns team owner Mat Ishbia on mentioning his name with Donald Sterling, but said he meant it from a basketball perspective. Sterling received a lifetime ban from NBA for racist remarks. Now he's going in on Ishbia. #Suns

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Duane Rankin: Mat Ishbia said doesn't think people take Stephen A. Smith seriously when asked about him saying he's on the verge of becoming the worst owner in the history of basketball. Added that he thinks Smith will apologize for putting him in the same category as Donald Sterling. #Suns pic.x.com/tnablKsJcC

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Baron Davis: "He used the team as like his little duck-off business, you know what I mean, so like his PR, everything, all the [expletive] that he did was all through the team. And then he was just a weirdo, bro. He was just hella weird with weird people around him and I felt like anybody who hung around that dude had to be a weird [expletive]. You know what I mean? Because like he was beyond weird, you know what I'm saying. And not that he was racist, he was a hate everybody [expletive], so it wasn't even that he just hated black people, he hated everybody. He hated everybody, he probably hated himself."

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ClutchPoints: "He was delusional and hateful, so he would say anything to anybody... I could've sued for sexual harassment." Baron Davis with a WILD locker room story about former Clippers owner Donald Sterling 😳 (via @TheVolumeSports) pic.twitter.com/qNmZ9BcsE8

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Former players JJ Redick and Jamal Crawford, who both were part of the Clippers in the 2010s and were depicted in the show, had a discussion on The Old Man and The Three podcast about the portrayals. “I’ve watched two [episodes], I can’t wait to watch three,” Crawford said. “It’s hilarious because some things I remember and some things like that did not happen but I understand it’s entertainment. But my hair, I’ve never used a piece of spray paint in my life, why do they have my hair looking like that.”

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“We had a charity golf tournament at Palos Verdes at the Trump Course there and that was the only interaction I ever had with him (Donald Sterling)," said Redick. "This was after he tried to cancel my deal because he woke up and decided he didn’t want to sign a white player. I went up to him just to say hello and I said hey Mr. Sterling, ‘nice to meet you', and he said, ‘Hey JJ I’ve heard a lot about you.' That was the only words I ever spoke to him.”

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“Some of the stuff with my free agency was actually accurate,” Redick said later. “We had a charity golf tournament at Palos Verdes at the Trump Course there and that was the only interaction I ever had with him (Donald Sterling). This was after he tried to cancel my deal because he woke up and decided he didn’t want to sign a white player. I went up to him just to say hello and I said hey Mr. Sterling, ‘nice to meet you', and he said ‘hey JJ I’ve heard a lot about you.' That was the only words I ever spoke to him.”

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Ball Don't Lie: The first trailer for "Clipped" -- the new show depicting the downfall of Clippers owner Donald Sterling 👀📽️ (via @ramonashelburne) pic.twitter.com/T8Lc5tq9u0

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Doc Rivers: “…So, to me and all I’m saying is this and this is what I’m concerned by, is teams targeting the better players with instigation to get them thrown out and the better player has to be above and can’t retaliate. It’s just like anything. I even go back way back to the Donald Sterling thing. Sterling says that crap he said, and no one talked about Sterling anymore. They’re waiting for us to respond and how we respond. It shouldn’t be about how we respond. It should be about the person who commits the act and so that’s the only thing I’m concerned with. The JoelEmbiid thing will take care of itself. We got to be better. We knew coming into the game, they’re going to be more physical, and we got to handle that better as a group…”

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Miller expressed his dissatisfaction that players have been willing to call out owners but not one of their own. “In years past, this league has been great because the players have led the way and they have strong voices,” Miller said. “When Donald Sterling stepped in it, when Robert Sarver just recently stepped in it, our voices in the basketball community and our players were vocally strong in some type of discipline being handed down — or be gone. “The players have dropped the ball on this case when it’s been one of their own. It’s been crickets,” Miller added. “And it’s disappointing, because this league has been built on the shoulders of the players being advocates. Right is right and wrong is wrong. And if you’re gonna call out owners, and rightfully so, then you’ve got to call out players as well. You can’t go silent in terms of this for Kyrie Irving. I want to hear the players and their strong opinions as well, just as we heard about Robert Sarver and Donald Sterling.”

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Modern Family star Ed O'Neill and Dopesick actress Cleopatra Coleman were spotted on the set of The Sterling Affairs in Los Angeles on Tuesday. In the upcoming FX limited series, O'Neill, 76, will play the role of Donald Sterling, the former Los Angeles Clippers owner who in 2014 was banned for life from the NBA, and forced to sell his basketball team amid a racism scandal.

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Marc J. Spears: Chris Paul says that Robert Sarver and Donald Sterling was a "different situation."

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