(CNN) -- I am extremely proud of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. He made the exact right move in banning Donald Sterling from the NBA for life and fining him $2.5 million for his offensive, racist comments. It sets a definitive tone not only for how we deal with racism in the NBA but also how we should be dealing with it in the country as a whole. I am not a politician. I am not a legislator. I'm not an activist. I do have fame. I do have accolades. I played professional basketball. But all of this aside, I am a man, a black man.
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NBA Hall of Famer, Hawks exec Dominique Wilkins happy Sterling banned for life
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Wilkins: Sterling's offensive comments an opportunity to speak out against racism
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Wilkins: Sterling will fade into the background, just one ignorant, misguided outlier
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Wilkins says racism in U.S. bigger than one man and conversation must continue
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Hearing about, and then listening to, the Donald Sterling recordings early Saturday left me and my @placeholder family disgusted.