{"id":4573,"date":"2014-05-28T16:33:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2014-05-28T16:33:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:33:29","slug":"donald-sterling-responds-with-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=4573","title":{"rendered":"Donald Sterling Responds With Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/don2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/don2.jpg?resize=250%2C249\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/don2.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/don2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Instead of bowing out gracefully from the Clippers racist debacle, NBA owner Donald Owner is clapping back.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a 32-page long reaction letter, Sterling insists that his private comments shouldn&#8217;t be used against him in this manner and being forced to sell the Clippers is &#8220;illegal.&#8221; He also stresses how extreme his punishment is in comparison to other people&#8217;s, citing Kobe Bryant&#8217;s $100,000 fine for calling a referee a &#8220;f*cking f**got.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sterling will officially find out his fate June 3. In the meantime view the letter <strong><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.usatoday.net\/sports\/!sterling\/2014-05-27%20Secured%20DTS%20Answer%20to%20NBA%20Charge.pdf\"><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, in other Clippers news, Donald&#8217;s wife &#8211; Shelly Sterling &#8211; has begun entertaining offers to cop the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>According to TMZ Sports, the current frontrunner is former Microsoft owner Steve Ballmer. This past Sunday, Shelly and Ballmer met at her Malibu home, where she was presented with a very competitive offer. The Clippers is said to be worth upward of $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Instead of bowing out gracefully from the Clippers racist debacle, NBA owner Donald Owner is clapping back.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[268,359,807],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-clippers","tag-donald-sterling","tag-matrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-1bL","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/don2.jpg?fit=250%2C249&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}