The fluctuating price of Sterling

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

We won’t revisit the whole thing, suffice to say Sterling’s remarks provoked a reaction from many commentators, his own players and not least, a lifetime ban from the NBA itself.

I noted that last week in these pages Dónal Óg Cusack referred to the unpleasant way in which Sterling amassed the fortune necessary to own a professional sports franchise: reports in various outlets allude to shameful exploitation of low-income tenants, many of whom were black, which goes to show a consistency in attitude, if nothing else.