American professional basketball player and Los Angeles Clippers power forward Blake Griffin was not surprised when the news broke out about Donald Sterling's racist comments.

According to the 25 year old NBA player, he was aware of Sterling's history long before he issue broke out. In an interview with GQ Magazine, he said that he Googled the team first when he realized that they were drafting him.

He said "And I was like, "Okay, team owned by Donald Sterling." So then I typed in "Donald Sterling" in Google, and the first thing that pops up is "Donald Sterling racist." And I was like, "Whoa!" So obviously I explored that, read a whole bunch of articles, read the deposition at one of his court cases. Which was awesome, if you ever have time to read some of the depositions. [laughs]."

When Griffin was asked: After you get drafted, and you're reading this stuff-is there any recourse for a player in your situation?

He answered "No. Not at all. I mean, what was I gonna do? And for five years with the team, it was fine. Nothing came out. Nothing happened. I never really saw him that much. I saw him right when I first got drafted. I had to go to a couple of events that he does, which was awful. [...]"

Griffin was also asked if they sympathize with someone like that since they are working for him.

He said "No, we really didn't. Guys would tell different stories about their interactions with him. And then when all this came out... We heard that it was gonna come out the day before it came out-our coach told us-and this is during the playoffs. We were up in San Francisco, in a team meeting. And because we didn't know exactly what was said, we were just kind of like, "Oh, okay, well, whatever." And then I remember waking up Saturday morning to, like, twenty texts. This is 7 a.m. And then, throughout the day, just bombarded with texts about it. I ended up turning my phone off, because we were trying to focus. [...]"

When asked how he felt while he listened to the audio recording he said "It was unfortunate. I mean, for me, like I said, the first thing I ever Googled about the man, the first thing that popped up was "racist." So I was aware. I hate to say this, and it might sound ignorant, but I wasn't surprised that all this came up. Not necessarily the manner in which it was said, or the exact things, but like I said: This was my first impression of him. [...]"