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Former Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar praises NBA commissioner Adam Silver for banning LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling from the organisation.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, former Los Angeles Lakers

"If I start stuttering it's because I haven't gotten much sleep in the past couple of days because this really bothered me. But I'm just thrilled with what Commissioner Silver did. He got on the case immediately. He got to the bottom of whatever mysteries there were involved in this and figured out what the truth was. And his actions and focus were so on the mark it was unbelievable. you should have heard us when we were listening to the press conference. We all started clapping because he handled it the right way."