article_snippet.sent: A year ago, a recording of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling telling Stiviano not to associate with black people led the NBA to ban former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fine former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling $2.5 million.
article_snippet.sent: former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lost the team last year after a recording emerged in which former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling told Stiviano not to be seen with black people .
article_snippet.sent: former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling had filed the suit against Stiviano a month before the recording of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling husband telling Stiviano not to associate with black people created an uproar and led the NBA to ban her husband for life.
article_snippet.sent: It was Stiviano who recorded the now-infamous conversation with Sterling in which Judge Richard Fruin Jr. berated Stiviano for associating with black people and urged Stiviano not to bring minorities with Stiviano to Clippers games.
article_snippet.sent: In the subsequent furor, the NBA banned Sterling from the league for life, and Judge Richard Fruin Jr. was ultimately forced to sell
highlights_snippet.sent: The ruling came a year after the NBA banned former Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life over a recording of him telling V. Stiviano not to associate with black people .