By JAKE NISSE
Published: 12:43 EDT, 11 July 2025 | Updated: 12:50 EDT, 11 July 2025
Former NBA star Blake Griffin has revealed a bizarre locker room encounter with disgraced ex-Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
Sterling received a lifetime ban and a $2.5million fine from the league in 2014 after a recording emerged of him making racist comments.
He was also forced to sell the team, which was ultimately bought by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
In the years since, more information about his conduct with the Clippers has come to light, including his penchant for frequently visiting the locker room with guests.
And Griffin, who starred for the team over eight seasons, how now shared a creepy locker room story in which he was objectified by his boss at the time.
Speaking on the Adam Friedland Show, Griffin began: 'He would come in with his crew, it'd be like 10-12 people with him in the locker room. And we'd all have towels on.
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Sterling is seen congratulating Griffin after winning the Slam Dunk contest in 2011
'One time, I'm in a towel, [he] comes over, grabs my arm, and he's got all his people in there and he goes: 'Let's hear it for our number one star, hip hip!' And he raised my arm, and all these people go 'hooray!'
'And I'm sitting there like holding the towel going like 'hip hip, hooray!' He did it three times.'
Griffin also shared that Sterling once encouraged guests at one of his infamous 'white parties' to touch Griffin's arms and abs.
'I was like 19 years old', he recalled of that incident.
Griffin's admission comes after another former Clipper, Cuttino Mobley, discussed Sterling's locker room visits during a recent interview.
'We were like art, or like the zoo,' he said on the Podcast P show. 'Like, 'Look at this specimen, you see this one? Look how tall that one is. This one's got dreads.' You felt like that.'
Sterling's Clippers downfall began when TMZ published a call between him and his alleged mistress V Stiviano, in which he could be heard chiding her for associating with black people and bringing her to Clippers games.
'It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you are associating with black people. Do you have to?' he said.
Griffin, seen with the Nets in 2022, retired from the NBA following the 2022-23 season
'The little I ask is not to promote it on [social media]... and not to bring them to my games.'
Sterling acknowledged that he was the man speaking in the phone call, but said it 'does not reflect his views'.
Stiviano has denied being Sterling's mistress, and told ABC News at the time that she recorded her now-infamous phone call with the owner with his permission.
Sterling, 91, has been out of the public eye since selling the team.
Griffin, 36, retired following the 2022-23 season to cap off an impressive 13-year career in the NBA.
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