When the NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, gave out his response to the Donald Sterling remarks, the first thought that came to my mind was hammer time.

As the rest of “U Can’t Touch This,” started playing in my head, it was quite ironic. Silver did in fact touch this.

He dropped not just the hammer on Sterling, but everything you could possibly imagine.

Sterling was recently banned from the Los Angeles Clippers organization, and the NBA, for being caught on tape making racist remarks, most notably, telling his girlfriend not to bring black people to his game.

Sterling also faces the possibility of selling the team, pending an owner’s vote, while he must also pay a 2.5 million dollar fine which will be donated to groups that promote anti-discrimination.

I will never understand the arrogance. These “black people” that Sterling was so upset about being around make up a majority of the league, as well as his team.

I guess Sterling wasn’t thinking when he agreed to pay Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, and DeAndre Jordan a combined 44 million dollars.

Maybe, he was color blind when he agreed to dish out another seven million to Matt Barnes and Jared Dudley this past off-season.

J.J. Reddick and Hedo Turkoglu must be kings being the only white males on the team.

I would love to say that Sterling over saw the color of player’s skin because he was all about winning.

That would be giving Sterling too much credit since the Clippers have flat out stunk ever since he has owned them in 1981, winning just two division titles which have come in 2013 and this year.

Sterling has been around long enough to grow up in a time where putting down African Americans was socially acceptable. Where was he when everything began to change?

In retrospect, we should not be surprised that an 80-year old man made racists comments. It’s something that we see normal when some of us visit our grandparents.

What is surprising is that an NBA owner has the nerve to make those remarks in an industry that is over 70% black males.

Everything about this mess is confusing. It’s darn right comical to an extent that this is happening in the midst of a playoff run in which for the first time we can truthfully say the Clippers have a shot to win a title.

The only thing we can make sense of it all is that money can negate a 49-year-old age difference in a relationship, and “U Can’t Touch This” is a pretty catchy song.

Kyle Daubs is a special education major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].