CHICAGO — No Bulls players wore their warm-up shirts inside-out before their playoff game Tuesday night against the Wizards as a silent protest over Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist comments.

No incendiary signs from fans at the United Center ridiculed Sterling, and no outlandish statements from the Bulls or Wizards rebuked him. No need existed for anybody to symbolically show dissent over Sterling’s discriminatory speech, not after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver directly delivered a powerful message earlier in the day that echoed around the league.

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