david cornwell is a sports attorney. and cnn's wolf blitzer is staying on with me here as we continue to wait for this news conference to begin at nba headquarters. you see the bottom right of your screen. jerry, you're here with me in the studio, let me begin with you. really at this moment it is a guessing game. we don't know what the commissioner will rule, will decide, short of forcing sterling to sell. but ahead of this, what are you thinking? >> i don't think that he has the power to force him to sell. >> he doesn't. >> i think it's going to be some extreme as far as suspension, and maybe not attending any more games. but i cannot see that the owners who put themselves in the position to allow the commissioner to take the team away from him. >> you are fresh out of the league. i mean, help us understand the mind-set, finally, i think this is the winningest season for the clippers, right, in their franchise history. here they are ahead of game five, a couple of hours away. how would you be feeling? >> i'd like to pu

david cornwell is a prominent sports attorney. a pleasure to have you here to discuss this. john and i have been spending a lot of time off air discussing this whole mess. the best word we can use for it. in this mess maybe donald sterling has done something positive by opening a discussion about race in pro sports and race in america. what are your thoughts? we'll start with you, terrence. >> there's no doubt about that. this has been going on forever. racism in life, racism in sports. and it always gets me. people talk about donald sterling is treating his players like they are commodities. this has always been the case. major league baseball had the reserve clause which was legalized slavery where this didn't have anything to do with just black players but white players were bound to a team forever more. that's always been the case. you look at the racism part of it. you know, people think of the '60s and '50s on back when it comes to racism and baseball or sports pre-april 15th, 1947, when jackie robinson broke the color barri

cultural. >> zerlina maxwell from the grio, mike pes ka and david cornwell.or joining us. >> my pleasure. >> that is all for theeng. the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. this is the infiniti q70. this is the honda crv. this is an audi that's called the s4. this is the lincoln mks not to be confused with the lincoln mkz. this is the bmw x6m. this is a kia called the k900. behold the mazda cx5. this is a mercedes called the slk55amg. this is the ford f-150. fx4. which is what i have in the driveway at home. and don't get me wrong. i love cars. i love cars. i love cars too much. but once upon a time, cars had names. right? once u

anna cornwell came to check on her former coworkers. >> i just was concerned. they were like a second family for me. >>reporter: customers who came to buy easter bunny supplies were turned away like kids left out of the candy store. you came to buy candy? >> yes. it's easter. we need easter eggs. >>reporter: by late in the day, the doors were boarded up, the car towed away and the driver put on a stretcher and taken to the hospital. but in the end police say nobody was badly hurt and that's the sweetest part of all. >> i mean, it's miraculous that nobody was hit by the car. >>reporter: brian webb, kpix5. >> well, a man is in custody after a tense incident in the "los angeles times" building. it all began yesterday evening when a woman reported a man was on the third floor of the downtown building showing people a bag of bullets. well, the man said estles depressed, he had no connection to the newspaper san francisco chronicle itself but worked for a building that leased space in the times building. >>> heard about that 7.2 earthquake that rocked central and sou

anna cornwell came to check on her coworkers. >> i was concerned. they were like a second family to me. >> reporter: customers were turned away. >> you came to buy candy? >> yes, it is easter and we can't get easter eggs. >> reporter: by late in the day, the doors boarded up, the car towed away, and the driver taken to the hospital. but in the end, nobody was badly hurt and that's the sweetest part of all. >> i mean, it's miraculous that nobody was hit by the car. >> reporter: in pleasant hill, brian webb, kpix5. >>> the state has yanked a san jose restaurant's liquor license for serving alcohol to minors. a sign in front of beebas says it is closed for 30 days. >>> we learned an oakland woman died at the cochella music festival. toxicology reports are awaited, but it is believed that she died soft drugs or alcohol. >>> tonight, a street is back open after a big mud slide. the hill slide slipped and that sent trees careening onto power lines making a mess of marauga avenue. many people lost power most of the day. so what caused this mud slide in the

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>> zerlina maxwell from the grio, mike pes ka and david cornwell. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> that is all for theeng. the "rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. this is the infiniti q70. this is the honda crv. this is an audi that's called the s4. this is the lincoln mks not to be confused with the lincoln mkz. this is the bmw x6m. this is a kia called the k900. behold the mazda cx5. this is a mercedes called the slk55amg. this is the ford f-150. fx4. which is what i have in the driveway at home. and don't get me wrong. i love cars. i love cars. i love cars too much. but once upon a time, cars had names. right? once upon a time, shopping for cars wasn't like reading a bar code. the s 4 crv y 70, mks k-900. once upon a time not that long ago if you wanted to go shop, say, for a cadillac, a new one or a used one, you'd have to know the names of the cars. you'd have to know the names of the line-up. you'd have to know, for example, that th

sports attorney david cornwell says shelly sterling has no legal claim over the team. >> the decision to remove or terminate the franchise would apply to him and her as well even if she was, quote, a minority owner, at less than a majority interest in the team. this is done. >> reporter: as for donald sterling's girlfriend, v. stiviano wearing a bizarre face mask. >> one day i will become president of the united states of america and i will change laws and modern day history civil rights movement. >> so everyone is in the spotlight for now, it will be interesting to see if or when donald sterling emerges and whether or not he's going to address those racist remarks, wolf. >> amazing what the story gets more bizarre. thanks very much, suzanne malveaux. more with the former nba star, kareem abdul jabbar joining us los angeles behind the film "on the shoulders of giants" about the all-black team, harlem ravens and the role in the civil rights movement. a powerful, powerful film. joined by rachel nickels in new york. >> you worked for donald sterling, you said you were aware of his track