Clippers president on indefinite leave

Los Angeles Clippers president Andy Roeser has taken an indefinite leave of absence a week after the National Basketball Association moved to expel his boss, team owner Donald Sterling, for making racist comments, the NBA said on Tuesday.

Roeser's leave, effective immediately, marked the latest in a flurry of action paving the way for the league to install new management for the team and to force its sale, as urged by NBA commissioner Adam Silver on April 29 when he declared Sterling banned from the league for life..

Roeser's departure "will provide an opportunity for a new CEO to begin on a clean slate and for the team to stabilize under difficult circumstances," the NBA said in a statement announcing the latest move.