Thats Racist ! (Rich old man in LA buys and sells black folks)

I just saw Whitlock was the author. Article is automatically wrong.

Yeah Whitlock is a notoriously bad sports writer in my opinion.

fanaskin_sl said:

That's an awful article, nothing will change for the most part until the older generation dies off.

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If you live in the rural South (and some of the not-so-rural areas as well), then you'd know it's gonna take longer than that. Racial mores and attitudes here are passed down from generation to generation like grandma's fine china.

Tuco_sl said:

I don't even disagree with his overall point but that was a really bad article.

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I disagree with his overall point and the entire article. People who have nothing real to say love bitching about how terrible and racist America is. This was a billionaire owner with more tenure than anyone else in the NBA and he got his shit wrecked in just a couple days after a private conversation was leaked.

I don't know if it's been confirmed or not, but supposedly Sterling is the one who's idea it was to record all of his conversations. Supposedly, he's been having memory issues among with some Nixon esque paranoia.

Abefroman_sl said:

Good article by Jason Whitlock

Whitlock: Removing Donald Sterling as L.A. Clippers owner won't fix our culture - ESPN

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Nothing screams white supremacist like a billionaire Jewish lawyer with a black girlfriend.

Ambiturner_sl said:

I don't know if it's been confirmed or not, but supposedly Sterling is the one who's idea it was to record all of his conversations. Supposedly, he's been having memory issues among with some Nixon esque paranoia.

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I've heard that as well and that there are hundreds of hours of recordings. What was leaked might only be the tip of the iceberg.

Cad_sl said:

I don't get why its any concern of the league whether this guy is racist or not.

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Really? Oh gee, no sponsers, no money....not to mention the majority of the labor force is BLACK! Come on, get your head out of your ass and think for more than 2 seconds.

Hey man, better 20 years late than never.

It's not like the other NBA owners didn't know exactly who this dude is and what his attitudes twords the coloreds are.

I sort of suspect it's equal parts ageist against him as it is a condemnation of his lifetime bigotry. If he was just quietly a bigot people never would have heard about it. Because for the past 30 years, people haven't heard about it. But noooooo, he just HAD to go and go senile.

It's very difficult to muster any sympathy for him or his employees. Although to be completely fair, his employees are the more sympathetic case.

Hold on to your jimmies, there's drama coming. Sterling is going to sue the NBA if they try to force him to sell the team.

Donald Sterling Reportedly Will Sue NBA If Forced to Sell Clippers

If the board does side against Sterling, he plans to take legal action against the league, according to Kevin Armstrong, Bill Madden and Teri Thompson of the New York Daily News:

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Donald Sterling won?t go down without a fight, according to an NBA executive who is close to the disgraced owner of the Clippers, and will sue the NBA if the other 29 owners vote to force him to sell.

The wheels are in motion to remove Sterling, a process that the executive said Wednesday night would lead to a lawsuit by the disgraced owner, possibly tying up the future of the team for years.

"He is not going to sell the team," the executive said.

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Standby for the lulz if he actually wins his case.

Dalien_sl said:

Hold on to your jimmies, there's drama coming. Sterling is going to sue the NBA if they try to force him to sell the team.

Donald Sterling Reportedly Will Sue NBA If Forced to Sell Clippers





Standby for the lulz if he actually wins his case.

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There's not a chance in hell he would win that. Even if he did he'd have 0 sponsors, very low attendance, and no decent players would play for him. He'd essentially be:


Blackballed

I read that the girlfriend did not release the recordings and that it was a friend to whom she gave snippets of audio for safe keeping, but was not authorized to release them to the public. Supposedly.

Cad_sl said:

I'd need to see the contracts with the NBA and what clauses allow them to force him to sell the team, and what sort of discretion they have or if there are certain triggers. No way to know if he'd win without seeing the contracts.

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It's the NBA's constitution that has the 3/4 vote clause. I'd have to go pull up an article, but there's a broad "conduct detrimental to the league" or similar statement they would use to force the vote. It's very open to interpretation, I think the real question is whether he has standing to challenge the NBA's rules and decision in court. He can certainly try.

I'd prefer they just enforce the ban fully and let him fade away. This guy loves attention and legal fights, so it would play right into his hand. If they ban him, people will forget about him. If they fight him, he stays in the spotlight and they risk losing.

Adam Silver is an amazing lawyer and incredibly smart. I think he knows what he's doing.

But hey, I'm sure you guys with your 0 knowledge on NBA owner bylaws and what their contracts contained probably know a lot more.