. >> let's bring in roger mason, carl douglas and pat croce, as well. interested in your take, because you tried to get justice for essentially slum lord activities, i'm sorry, carl douglas, this question is for you. here is magic talking about how elgin was treated. i remember reading a columnist in the l.a. times saying if elgin knew about this for years why is he just coming out now? it sounds like he is a disgruntled employee, and magic actually agreed that he got the wrong deal, listen. >> elgin baylor said he sued sterling back in 2009 for racial discrimination, age discrimination. he said a lot of these things back then and a lot of people didn't really support him. >> exactly. you are exactly right. and now we all feel bad that we didn't support him. because we should have. and everything that he says is comes to light today. >> yeah, i think even in 2009, the year he was suing them the naacp in l.a. gave sterling an award. >> yeah, yeah. and it has been -- i hope that elgin feels a lot better today. and i know he doesn't, but i hope that now he

and an unending tale of the tapes, carl douglas, represented elgin baylor when he unsuccessfully suederg, author of "the agent." and a.c. green, good to see you all. and let me ask you about that idea. let me ask you, lee, if you were a -- i don't know working with damage control, olivia pope type person and you wanted to get out in front of this, do some damage control. you could call a press conference for donald sterling or you could leak a tape where he is really not a racist. what do you make of this tape? >> that the cow or horse has already left the barn. had he done something initially when all of this broke on that saturday he might have had a chance of combatting public opinion. but the tsunami wave that has made him the largest villain in sports i can recall since michael vick, lance armstrong, is too strong. and the dye has already been cast. they're on the way to having a hearing and then voting to take the team away. and those attorneys who argue that she -- the wife somehow can own the team as part of a trust, this is not a private business. it was granted to donald ste