Obama denounces reported comments by NBA team owner as 'racist'

President Barack Obama said on Sunday that comments reported to have been made by the owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers basketball team were "incredibly offensive racist statements." The NBA is investigating an audio recording posted online of Clippers owner Donald Sterling allegedly telling his girlfriend not to post photographs of herself with black people and not to bring African-Americans to Clippers games, league officials said on Saturday. “When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk,” Obama said when asked about the controversy during a news conference in Kuala Lumpur with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. Obama said he was confident NBA Commissioner Adam Silver would deal with the issue.

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