Befuddled Donald Sterling: ‘What New Recording?’

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2010, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling looks on during the second half of an NBA preseason basketball game between the Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles.... FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2010, file photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling looks on during the second half of an NBA preseason basketball game between the Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles. The NBA is investigating a report of an audio recording in which a man purported to be Sterling makes racist remarks while speaking to his girlfriend. NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in a statement Saturday, APril 26, 2014, that the league is in the process of authenticating the validity of the recording posted on TMZ's website. Bass called the comments "disturbing and offensive." (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File) MORE LESS
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Donald Sterling has mostly kept quiet since TMZ published a recording last month of racist comments he made to his personal assistant.

But the Los Angeles Clippers owner said Friday he has no idea where yet another audio recording came from after it was published by the online gossip site Radar Online.

“What new recording?” a “befuddled” Sterling told the New York Daily News when reached by phone Friday afternoon. “It wasn’t me. I haven’t given one interview.”

The Daily News reporter then explained Radar had published the recording in which Sterling reportedly said he made the original racist remarks to his assistant because he was trying to sleep with her. That prompted Sterling to let out a “let out a huge, dramatic sigh,” according to the newspaper.

“It wasn’t me,” Sterling said. “I haven’t given one interview. Thank you.”

This post has been updated.

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  1. I almost feel sorry for the old geezer.

    Almost.

  2. Even with all the money in the world, I really can’t see anyone but Palin taking him up on the offer.

  3. Now that’s a hook-up line I never tried! Does it work?

    Sterling “let out a ‘huge dramatic sigh’”. He remembers saying it and to whom (unless he said it more than once trolling for support on his self-pity tour).

    He may not have said it during an “interview”, as he and probably most of us regard one. But he was recorded saying it.

  4. Avatar for fgs fgs says:

    I don’t know how he went wrong with pickup lines like that,

  5. Money can’t buy happiness

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