jarrett bell is the nfl columnist for usa today and times senior writer sean gregory.ith you. i have heard since this lawsuit was filed some people say the players themselves were the pressuring ache they wanted to get back on the field, a, they wanted to play, b, you, they knew their future depended on this. your suit says the opposite. >> the evidence is really hundreds ever sworn affidavits from our clients dating back to the late 1960s. the focus here is that controlled dangerous substances have been regulated by state and federal law since 1970. and we as a society have said we are taking this out of the hands of regular people and putting this under the auspices of doctors. and druses are controlling it is procurement and distribution of controlled dangerous substances and prescription substances and it is not the choice of us individuals, whether you're an athlete or a fireman or a teacher to say, i am going to take this. i want to take that. we pit the responsibility with the doctors and medical people and those medical people that work for the nfl have breache

we have david cornwell, sports attorney, and sean gregory, senior writer for "time" magazine.e law and policy here. mr. cornwell, counselor, starting with you. complicated. can shelly sell without donald? no, because he is the signatory to the franchise agreement, not her. but does she need him, maybe no because the nba at the end of the day owns the franchise. not donald sterling. help us understand this. >> well, there are multiple ways to get to the same place but primarily donald sterling recently sent a letter to the nba commissioner adam silver saying that his wife had the authority to negotiate and sell the team. max bleacher is ignoring that. secondly, the nba is about to vote on tuesday to terminate the franchise where the nba will take over it and they'll have the right to sell it. so it really -- and, shelly sterling claims that she has the right to sell it because of her status in the family trust. so any road you take ends up with steve ballmer owning the clippers. >> one of thisser big legal point. the representative for mr. sterling says, none of this means anyt

relations expert and founder of the greedo agency, margaret, and the senior writer for "time" sean gregory. okay. well, where to begin? there's so much. margaret, i'm going to start with you. just as a public relations matter, allowing donald sterling, who is known to be, let's just say, injudicial in his remarks on race to go on, do this interview with anderson cooper, and cooper said right when he gave the interview, no lawyer present, no p.r. present. was that smart? >> it was the most ill-advised crisis media campaign i have ever seen in my over 20 years of doing p.r. and branding. it was a damaging, offensive interview. not only did he come out and offend further offend a community, marginalizing a community, he offended and brought in an individual who has nothing to do with this matter. i'm sure that any confirmation that the nba needed to remove the sterling family from ownership, they received during that interview. >> before i get your remarks on that, i want to listen more of donald sterling sxshs this is the part where he gets to what he actually had support. that is the crux o

sean gregory, senior writer for "time" magazine and time.com. what's your take away from this, sean? >> the barbara walters, you know, bequest -- >> also known as abc news. >> that was the most bizarre thing. magic said something interesting at the end when we talk about tend game of all this. it looks like donald sterling is going to get pushed out and he's going to get his money. and what does he do with that money? and, you know, anderson suggested, give it to a good cause. maybe he will do some good with that money. magic made the point, do we take that money? that gets to larger questions of the donald sterling were to set up a scholarship fund for minorities he said in his interview, i love to help minorities, do you take that money? and but if you don't take that money, are you denying opportunities, you know, to go to college? are we going to have a larger conversation about forgiveness at the end of all of this. >> and who should -- to get forgiveness though, malik, what's the first rule we teach our kids, to be forgiven you must say i'm

. >>> sean gregory is senior sports writer for "time" magazine and following this story closely. good morning. >> good morning. >> if this quote attributed to sterling is true the "i should have paid her off" quote, what's your reaction to that? >> it's not surprising. he's got a lot of money. a way it could have went april way for him but he didn't do so and now we have what we have. >> we've been hearing a lot about this vote. it's interesting to me because you read things like all of the owners are in support of silver something like 29. what do you think will happen behind closed doors? especially with someone like mark cuban saying this is a slippery slope for owners. >> interesting for cuban. after the punishment tweeted he supports adam silver 100%. owners are realizing if they vote against kicking out sterling it's a huge public relations problem for them if it leaks out you voted for what seems like almost 100% racist. >> you saw what v. stiviano said, that she doesn't believe he's a racist. how does that affect this do you think? >> i mean you know their relationship pr

let's discuss, sean gregory is here, senior writer for "time" magazine covering sports.t also a two-time nba champion. hello, to both of. you malik, you've heard the interview. you've heard portions of it. the full interview will air on anderson cooper tonight. we've been waiting to hear from this man. we've been waiting to hear if he will apologize and what he will say. we've now heard it, does this change anything? >> actually, it doesn't, what it does, it kind of make what is he said initially even worse. this was built up to be an paul jeez. he's coming out saying he's sorry, once you hear the interview, you hear everything except that. the guy is spewing the same venom as he had before. this is just another step in the p.r. ploy by the sterlings. >> sean, does it change anything in the nba's position? >> not really. the one thing he said that was kind of unbelievable, i don't believe she made me say this. it's like nobody made you say anything. it's like a fifth grade excuse. it makes him look worse in a way. he's trying, it's one mistake, that's fine. but the whole

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