Donald Sterling banned for life by NBA

• steubbigred

  Some sort of action to be taken tomorrow.
• steubbigred

  If they don't indefinitely suspend this clown then they are weak.
• bases_loaded

  

  Are the players still gonna cash their checks? Or are they going to request Al Sharpton signs them first?
• steubbigred

  bases_loaded;1610421 wrote:Are the players still gonna cash their checks? Or are they going to request Al Sharpton signs them first?

  I would in a hot minute. What does the clown Sharpton have to do with this? All he does is inflame race relations.
• thavoice

  bases_loaded;1610421 wrote:Are the players still gonna cash their checks? Or are they going to request Al Sharpton signs them first?

  Why wouldnt they?
• Gblock

  interesting piece on deadspin about a 2009 lawsuit elgin baylor lost against sterling that alleged a 'pervasive and ongoing racist attitude" and a "plantaion" mentality. so far baylor has refused all media requests. he was gm for 22 years
• TedSheckler

  

  steubbigred;1610454 wrote:What does the clown Sharpton have to do with this? All he does is inflame race relations.

  Sharpton says the NBA should take the team away from Sterling. Sorry, you can't just force an owner to sell the team. Mark Cuban is right, this is a very slippery slope when it comes to any sort of punishment. Where do you draw the line? People are allowed to be be morons in this country.
• Gblock

  TedSheckler;1610478 wrote:Sharpton says the NBA should take the team away from Sterling. Sorry, you can't just force an owner to sell the team. Mark Cuban is right, this is a very slippery slope when it comes to any sort of punishment. Where do you draw the line? People are allowed to be be morons in this country.

  
  a ton of people black and white have said that this week
• wildcats20

  

  First off...Stop listening to Al Sharpton.
  
  The League has in its by laws, or constitution as they are calling it, to be able to force an owner to sell. If Silver feels the rest of the owners would vote in favor of that, he will move forward.
• TedSheckler

  

  Gblock;1610480 wrote:a ton of people black and white have said that this week

  Said what?
• Gblock

  that the team should be taken from him
• thavoice

  wildcats20;1610482 wrote:First off...Stop listening to Al Sharpton.
  
  The League has in its by laws, or constitution as they are calling it, to be able to force an owner to sell. If Silver feels the rest of the owners would vote in favor of that, he will move forward.

  Agreed, according to the lawyer on MM this AM.
  Think it takes a 3/4 or 2/3 vote...cannot recall what he said.
  Have to wonder what the owners would do, and if the vote would be public or not.
  I could see them not wanting to just because they know certain skeletons could be in their closets, or some may vote yes because they dont want the public backlash.
  
  From what they were saying the worst option of making him sell would be fraud, gambling, and those type of things.
  Will see how it pans out.
• Gblock

  i think they wont have to..it will take care of itself. free-agents wont sign there, corporations will distance themselves and attendance will suffer. the team value is not going to go up while this is going on, its only going down. the faster he sells the more money he will get. he only paid 18 mil for team and stands to make 500 mill
• steubbigred

  TedSheckler;1610478 wrote:Sharpton says the NBA should take the team away from Sterling. Sorry, you can't just force an owner to sell the team. Mark Cuban is right, this is a very slippery slope when it comes to any sort of punishment. Where do you draw the line? People are allowed to be be morons in this country.

  I understand they can't just take the team away. They can suspend him for good. He is going to lose sponsers and then no player is going to want to play for him and them no fans are going to come . He is out . It is a matter of when . I don't want his wife to get the team either . She is from the same cloth and was part of the housing discrimination.
• thavoice

  steubbigred;1610490 wrote:I understand they can't just take the team away. They can suspend him for good. He is going to lose sponsers and then no player is going to want to play for him and them no fans are going to come . He is out . It is a matter of when . I don't want his wife to get the team either . She is from the same cloth and was part of the housing discrimination.

  That could be whats next! The dodgers former owner and ex wife had a huge battle over the team. I doubt she would want the team...just the $$$$$$$$.
• bases_loaded

  

  If someone had Lebron on a secret recording calling Dan Gilbert a honkey mother fucker would Lebron get a lifetime suspension?
  
  Love all the exploiters right now too. Mark Jackson telling fans they shouldn't show up(fans who already paid for their seats, who does that help?). Magic saying he should sell the team.....to him. Heat players wearing their jerseys inside out. Rosa Parks and MLK they are not.
• bases_loaded

  

  thavoice;1610491 wrote:That could be whats next! The dodgers former owner and ex wife had a huge battle over the team. I doubt she would want the team...just the $$$$$$$$.

  According to Windy, she owns 50% and her daughter wants control of the team. So good luck
• TedSheckler

  

  Gblock;1610486 wrote:that the team should be taken from him

  Well, they are wrong, then.
  
  The NBA...The new morality police.
• Gblock

  i dont even know how offensive honkey is, but i would summize that even if sterling had just said the n word the backlash wouldnt be as bad as it is now. he showed some deep seated racist feelings towards blacks being inferior. riley cooper didnt get suspended and it went away pretty quickly. so to answer your question no lebron wouldnt get suspended forever. but if he would have said something similar to what tim hardaway said about gays, or hugh douglass said about uncle toms then yes they make you go away forever.
• bases_loaded

  

  His girlfriend is halfrican. How racist can he be? Hates them so much he bangs and pays them millions of dollars?
• sleeper

  

  bases_loaded;1610526 wrote:His girlfriend is halfrican. How racist can he be? Hates them so much he bangs and pays them millions of dollars?

  Black people were offended, that is all that matters. We must give blacks what they want because their feelz were hurt.
• reclegend22

  

  All this manufactured outrage is hilarious, especially considering that Sterling's alleged comments were utterly tame and not even remotely racist compared to other comments that he is known to have made re black people in the past. More than 10 years ago, during the Elgin Baylor situation, the following quote attributed to the Clippers owner regarding his hesitance to rent properties to African Americans came into public knowledge: "Black tenants smell and attract vermin." Where was the nationwide wrath then? Funny that no internet-fueled lynch mob erupted. Interesting that it took ESPN and CNN's around-the-clock coverage of these latest comments, benign by comparison, for anyone to care about or notice Donald Sterling.
  
  The feigned fury of the media, many of whom have probably never even watched the NBA and yet are now calling for the Clippers' players to quit their playoff series as a demonstration of solidarity, is beyond laughable. Stephen A. Smith said something yesterday along the lines that we need to galvanize as a nation to get Sterling removed from his position of power. (The Heat did their part by wearing their shooting shirts inside out as a symbol of black power, which amounted to little more than a fashion statement and helped nothing. No one cares about LeBron pretending to be a social leader.) Galvanize as a nation? LOL. Do people like Stephen A. Smith or Al Sharpton even listen to what the fuck they are saying?
  
  Sterling's comments were not good, but he was obviously set up to some degree by a conniving, gold-digging tramp who was probably fucking Magic Johnson and other notable black people and then flaunting it in public as a way to extort more money from Sterling. That stupid bitch deserves nothing. ****.
• Heretic

  

  bases_loaded;1610496 wrote:If someone had Lebron on a secret recording calling Dan Gilbert a honkey mother fucker would Lebron get a lifetime suspension?
  
  Love all the exploiters right now too. Mark Jackson telling fans they shouldn't show up(fans who already paid for their seats, who does that help?). Magic saying he should sell the team.....to him. Heat players wearing their jerseys inside out. Rosa Parks and MLK they are not.

  1. The part I agree with: Yeah, it's funny when the coach of the Clippers' opponent is saying their fans should boycott, especially when you consider he's considered to be on the hot seat after a season where he fired multiple assistant coaches. And it's funny when one of the people demeaned by his comments suddenly "rides to the rescue" offering that his group should buy the team.
  
  2. The part I disagree with: The first sentence, since it's so poorly construed from a logical perspective that it's more comical than anything.
  
  Let's see:
  a. NFL player Riley Cooper was caught using a racial slur towards black people and never was given a lifetime suspension. A fine and he had to attend counseling, but no actual suspension of any length.
  
  b. There is a bit of a difference between one slur and a 15-minute rant loaded with derogatory comments/feelings about other races.
  
  c. Sterling has a long history of racist comments and actions (unlike Cooper or your hypothetical LBJ) that mainly were ignored by the Stern and the NBA owners (if not courtrooms) due to how the Clippers have been a joke until recently and because Sterling's a lawyer who'd likely tie up anything ruled against him in court, if for no other reason than just because he can.
  
  d. And for the biggest and most important difference: Pure Capitalism. If a player says/does something that affects the bottom line, the club can "show the people/advertisers" they're on their side by fining, trading or, if the issue is serious enough, releasing them, along with a "We will not tolerate these actions from our employees" sort of press conference. Same for a coach or front office person. But when it's a team's owner and the comments are affecting the franchise's bottom line, it's affecting the NBA's bottom line. And when those comments come during the playoffs, when more people are tuned into NBA stuff (30 teams, 16 make the playoffs, 82-game season --- I'd guess a lot of more casual fans pay more attention to the playoffs than the entire, somewhat meaningless regular season), it gets magnified a lot more because it's just so much more noticeable. If people, whether it be Clippers' employees, advertisers, etc. don't want to be associated with Sterling, it affects the NBA as a whole and if they feel that one of their 30 is looking like a potential financial sinking ship, they will step in and correct that.
• bases_loaded

  

  The NAACP twice recognized this man. That can't be said enough. Even after the DOJ charges and Elgin Baylor. Money talks and bullshit walks
• Mohican00

  

  bases_loaded;1610526 wrote:His girlfriend is halfrican. How racist can he be? Hates them so much he bangs and pays them millions of dollars?

  Oh well, case closed. Everyone go home, he's not racist