Even as he apologized on TV for his controversial racist comments, Los Angeles Clippers owner David Sterling lambasted NBA legend Magic Johnson for allegedly setting a bad example to the youth and for not doing enough for the Afro-American community. 

In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Sunday, Sterling admitted that he made the mistake of saying racist statements that led to his being banned from the basketball league for life.

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But in the same interview, Sterling took another shot at Magic Johnson, already the target of his earlier racist remarks, by announcing that Johnson contracted AIDS because of his sexual promiscuity.

Cooper clarified that Johnson was only diagnosed with HIV and not AIDS, but the Clippers owner continued his tirade, asking the interviewer if the former basketball player deserved to be respected and looked up to by young children even if he had caught HIV by having intimate relations with different girls in every city he went to.

He said Johnson should go through self-mortification and assess if he had done something right for the black people.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling from the NBA for life and fined him US$2.5 million for making racist remarks in an audio recording that was released by various entertainment websites, including Deadspin and TMZ.

In the said recording, Sterling was heard talking to a woman named V. Stiviano, telling her to stop bringing black people to the games and to stop posting pictures of herself with black people in her social media accounts.

In the CNN interview, Sterling told Cooper that he had spoken to Johnson twice after the release of the recordings. When asked if he had apologized for his remarks, Sterling raised doubts on the status of Johnson as an exemplar for young children.

Although he recognized that the former NBA star is a good person, Sterling also doubts if Johnson had made any contribution to the African-American people.

In the said interview, which happened almost two weeks after the controversial audio recording was released, Sterling claimed that Stiviano had tricked him into making the racist remarks.

TagsDonald Sterling, LA Clippers, Magic Johnson, AIDS, Racism