Turns out, there is something like it.

The controversy about racist comments from Donald Sterling, owner of the LA Clippers NBA team, is bubbling along in the US.

NEVER mind the morality, consider the electronic threat. That’s arguably the key message emerging from racism controversies on both sides of the Atlantic at the moment.

It was a poor week for the racists. But another maligned bunch — the PR gurus — have had worse.

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Hollywood moguls, sports stars and rappers have all voiced interest in taking over the Los Angeles Clippers after the NBA urged owners to expel disgraced Donald Sterling in the wake of a racism row.

V Stiviano, the woman whom Donald Sterling was talking to when he made racist remarks, is "very saddened" by his lifetime NBA ban, and she didn’t release the recording of their conversation, her lawyer said.

BASKETBALL: Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life from the NBA and fined 2.5 million US dollars (€1.8million) after being found guilty of making racist comments on tape.

These United States of America have been dealing with a doozie of a week when it comes to the long, ongoing tension between the races.

Los Angeles Clippers players staged a protest at a play-off game on Sunday against racist comments allegedly made by team owner Donald Sterling, turning their warm-up jerseys inside out to hide the team name before a loss to the Golden State Warriors.

THE NBA fined Miami Heat owner Micky Arison $500,000 (€365,000) for comments he made on Twitter that violated the league’s regulations on speaking publicly about the lockout that has crippled the sport.