donald sterling was donald stirling for a long time. everybody knew who donald stirling was. craig hodges blackballed under david stern. i interviewed adam silver for the book and wanted to get him on record and ask him, would you punish a player who used their platform to speak on a topic, even when you disagreed with? he said i would never do that. he said i value athletes using their voice, talk about the history of bill russell and everything like that and i interviewed ted leon of the wizards and mark cuban from the dallas mavericks and i want to get different people in different management positions because the notion is if you do speak out, you will be shooting yourself in the foot, mess up your whole career and i wanted to get people in positions of power to ask them. i had a different expense with the wizards. i remember when i spoke at an antiwar rally during the summer. when i walked up there he had the biggest smile on his face and said my son was at the rally. he was like yeah and was raving, talked for an hour about politics and different things like affordable