When the NBA banned Donald Sterling for life last Tuesday, it hoped for a clean slate for the Los Angeles Clippers.

However, his wife Shelly Sterling has issued statements that she intends to try and keep ownership of the team within her family. She has also denounced her husband’s racist comments, and denied accusations of racism herself.

Clippers coach Doc Rivers did not comment on his personal feelings toward a Shelly Sterling ownership, but said it would be “a very hard situation” due to her connection with Donald.

“I think it’d be very difficult,” Rivers said Thursday. “I guarantee you every person wouldn’t be on board with that. Whether I would or not, I’m not going to say, but I just know that would be a very difficult situation for everybody.”

“I will say that I don’t know what she’s done wrong,” he continued. “But I think it’d be a difficult situation, because we wouldn’t know who was really in charge.”

Rivers said he has not spoken to Shelly Sterling since their initial conversation after news broke of Donald’s comments. Although she had been named in past discrimination lawsuits against the Sterlings, she was not included in the lifetime ban.

All 30 league owners must still come up with a majority three-fourths vote in order to force Donald Sterling to sell the team.

Asked whether it would be appropriate for Shelly Sterling to attend Clippers games, Rivers was again mum.

“I don’t know the answer to that,” he said. “There’s no playbook. I think what’s ‘appropriate’ is what everyone thinks is appropriate. Not whether I think it is or not. It’s what the masses think. And that doesn’t mean the masses are right. If we’ve learned anything, it’s that the masses can be wrong in this.”