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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, whose Los Angeles charter is supposed to give an award to disgraced Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, issued a statement saying that its unit president Leon Jenkins has stepped down to distance the civil rights group from the negative pressure in the wake of the racial discrimination scandal.

In the wake of the audio recording scandal involving Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his rumored girlfriend V. Stiviano, the National Basketball Association is expected to make a statement on Tuesday as part of its investigation on Sterling's alleged racist remarks, USA Today said.