(Reuters) - The president of a Lithuanian basketball team who made comments last week about having too many black players resigned on Tuesday but could still face punishment from the EuroLeague and the sport's governing body.
The decision by BC Lietuvos Rytas's president Gedvydas Vainauskas to step down comes days after he said in a filmed interview that a team should not have more than two black players because "that's when bad things start to take place".
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