“They thought he would die two years ago,” one source said of Sterling, who was banned for life from the NBA on Tuesday for his now-infamous racist rant.
“People have been predicting his imminent demise. I’m sure he has the best ... drugs money can buy,” said the source, who works closely with professional sports teams. “He can do anything to keep himself alive.” The source said some of the medication Sterling has been taking is responsible for the puffy appearance of his face. Another source said Sterling, 80, was specifically suffering from prostate cancer.
In an ironic twist, Sterling refused to pay for prostate-cancer surgery a decade ago for then-Clippers assistant coach Kim Hughes.
“I contacted the Clippers about medical coverage and they said the surgery wouldn’t be covered,” Hughes told The Journal Times of Racine, Wisconsin, in 2011.
“They said if they did it for one person, they’d have to do it for everybody else.”
Insiders at ABC America said Sterling was in negotiations to chat with Barbara Walters for a “20/20” interview. An ABC spokesman declined to comment to the Post.
Media consultant Bobby Grossman said Sterling’s best hope for public forgiveness would be to “confront his demons, but he’s got to be honest about it.”
“The only recourse for someone like Donald Sterling is to come out and say: ‘I am a racist ... I will spend the rest of my life trying [to change].’”
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