Donald Sterling: I'm not a racist

— -- A new recording sheds some light on Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling's perspective -- including a vehement denial that he is racist -- in the wake of being banned for life and fined $2.5 million by the NBA over a week ago. 

In the audio recording, posted by Radar Online and confirmed by ABC News to be Sterling, the embattled owner yells, "You know I'm not a racist!" to an unidentified listener. 

"You think I'm a racist?" he says. "You think I have anything in the world but love for everybody? You don't think that! You know I'm not a racist!"

As evidence, Sterling cites his experience as president of a diverse high school in east Los Angeles, and says of his management of the Clippers: "How can you be in this business and be a racist? Do you think I tell the coach to get white players? Or to get the best player he can get?"

Sterling expresses feeling hurt by Magic Johnson's reaction, in particular, to the controversy.

"It breaks my heart that Magic Johnson, a guy that I respect so much, wouldn't stand up and say, 'Well, let's get the facts. Let's get him and talk to him.' Nobody tried. Nobody!"

In the original recording, Sterling was quoted as saying he wanted his associate V. Stiviano to remove an online photo of her with Johnson, saying it bothered him "a lot" that she was "associating with black people." Johnson subsequently spoke out against Sterling and was named as a potential buyer of the team. 

On the new recording, Sterling bristles at the idea that he could be forced to sell the Clippers. As a lawyer, he says, it is his opinion that "you can't force someone to sell property in America." 

NBA commissioner Adam Silver has urged the league's owners to force a sale of the team.

Other than a brief interview made public last week, Sterling has kept a relatively low profile since the first recording was made public and the resulting league discipline. Sterling was quoted by DuJour.com last Friday as saying he wished he had "paid off" Stiviano, the woman behind the original recording. According to the person who conducted that interview, Sterling "expressed remorse," though no other quotes from Sterling were provided at the time. 

It is unclear when the most recent recording -- reportedly a taped phone call between Sterling and a "long-time friend" -- was made.