Hollywood Blvd. News – Los Angeles Clippers Edition
- Updated: August 10, 2015
Unless you’ve been living under a work you know that “Straight Outta Compton” is hitting theaters on the 14th (which also happens to be my birthday!!)
Ice Cube sat down with ESPN and talked about a few things Lakers related, and the character all Clippers’ fans are tired of hearing about, Donald Sterling.
Check out this except below:
“Huang: You’ve been very outspoken about a lot of topics, especially race relations. Considering what happened these past couple of seasons in the NBA (Donald Sterling, Bruce Levenson), what do you think about what’s going on in the NBA between owners and players and how it’s being portrayed in the media?
Ice Cube: It’s a situation where you hope that a person who owns an NBA team is not harboring those kinds of feelings. It’s hard to comprehend someone who makes so much money off black players has those kinds of views. You just hope to catch them, weed them out and keep the league going in a positive direction. Sports have been one of the greatest things for race relations in this country. Any time there’s racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything’s supposed to be fair.
Huang: The Sterling stuff happened right in your backyard. What are your thoughts on that?
Ice Cube: I think he didn’t deserve to own the team. I thought everything he said was pretty hurtful, unnecessary and, really, to me, it was just career suicide that he was committing even if he was unaware of it or not. Just saying those feelings out loud, he had to know he was walking on a tightrope. He got what he deserved — to be ousted — and now somebody else owns the team. I don’t shed any tears because he’s going to be all right.”
To read the rest of his Q&A with ESPN’s Mike Huang, click here.
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