SNL's Donald Sterling says he's the 'real victim'

From the moment Adam Silver announced a lifetime ban for L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling last week, you could almost hear Saturday Night Live's writers crumpling their script and writing a new opening sketch centered around the controversy. The resulting bit trotted out Sterling (played by Bobby Moynihan) to gripe about how he was the "real victim" in all of this. And though it fell flat in places and felt a little slapdash overall, it was not without a few solid zingers.

"My reputation has gotten a real black eye," Sterling said, "which we all know is the worst kind of eye." --Jon Terbush

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