Blake Griffin Claims Donald Sterling Encouraged Friends to 'Feel' His Abs In Weird Interaction

"My boss was touching me," the former NBA star joked.

July 12, 2025

Blake Griffin has recalled multiple inappropriate incidents involving former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling.

On Thursday (July 10), Griffin was a guest on webseries The Adam Friedland Show, where he spoke about his time playing for Sterling in the 2010s. In 2014, Sterling sold the team for $2 billion amid outrage over him spewing racist comments.

Around the 32-minute mark of the video above, Griffin alleged that he was targeted by Sterling during improper encounters, like the businessman bringing his friends into the Clippers locker room when Griffin was undressed.

"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," Griffin told Friedland. "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!'"

Griffin said the cheer lasted "three times" and alleged that the behavior also happened at "white parties" after he was drafted.

"Sterling kept saying, like, 'His mom's white. It's fine,'" Griffin claimed. "He would have people ... He was like, 'Feel his, feel his stomach. Feel his abs. Feel his arms.' I was like 19 years old."

Griffin jokingly added: "My boss was touching me."

The former NBA player, who was picked first overall during the 2009 NBA draft, previously said that he didn't consider Sterling's numerous discrimination lawsuits when joining the Clippers.

"I searched the whole franchise and go down a rabbit hole on Wikipedia and here on Donald Sterling's page," he said on a 2021 episode of In Depth With Graham Bensinger. "And you get to the section where it talks about lawsuits and you're like, 'Whoa, this is a long list of lawsuits and things that have been brought against him.' And at 19 years old, you're kind of like, 'That sucks.'"

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