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You have to feel bad for Doc Rivers. With his Los Angeles Clippers team engaged in an all-out battle with the Golden State Warriors in their Western Conference quarterfinal series, Rivers is forced to field questions about racist comments by his boss, Donald Sterling.
According to Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports, he thinks all of the attention being turned toward his boss helps the Warriors out --
Doc: "in a weird way golden state is having a ball right now because we are not talking about them."
— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) April 26, 2014
Rivers also indicated that anger toward Sterling's comments knows no racial lines in the Clippers' locker room -- along with that fact that boycotting is not on his mind --
Doc Rivers: "JJ Redick was just pissed as Chris Paul." Clippers talked it out in pre practice meeting. Boycotting brought up. Doc against it — Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) April 26, 2014
Directly addressing the situation, Rivers says that he would prefer to let all of the information and disciplinary action to take place before making any assertions --
Doc: "it's a disturbing comment but we will have to be above it right now." Doc: "I don't like racism but let it run it's course."
— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) April 26, 2014
We will have more on this developing story as more information is made available.