OT - Clippers Owner Donald Sterling to GF -- Don't Bring Black People to My Games

Not me, I don't have that kind of cash. But I think you are missing the big picture. UCLA is a huge academic university with incredible research (especially medical) and an outstanding reputation. They don't need Sterlings money to do what they are doing. They are much more concerned about their reputation than 2-3 million dollars. It's a lot of money of course, but imagine the student uproar alone. Guessing there won't be a lot of students protesting about giving the money back.

So is it easy to say don't take the money? For me yes and my guess for the governing board of UCLA, yes.

 

UCLA is also having major issues with the racial climate. It wouldn't be a good look to accept the money.

 

You mean the University of Caucasians Lost among Asians?

 

It's probably time to park this thread in OT forever.

 

Has the topic of the clippers banning association with clipper Darrel come up? Perhaps that was just another example of racism in the organization?

 

Why doesn't the NBA ban people that hit their wives? In my book that is much worse than having a racist thought. I'm not a fan of punishing people for thought crimes, especially if they were trying to keep those thoughts to themselves.

This Donald Sterling thing is like a witch hunt, and commenters are stumbling over themselves trying to give the most eloquent rebuke of him. Bullshit.

 

I liken it to finally arresting a gangster on tax evasion charges. Yeah it's the least offensive of the actual offenses, but you finally got him on something concrete enough that you can put his ass in jail.

That said, Kareem has the best take on the whole thing.

 

How racist is Sterling really? I mean not once did he use the N word in his diatribe, his head coach is black and the highest paid coach in the league, his gf is mixed race. He just sounds like an old man with a lot of friends who group up racist and theyre the ones causing problems.

 

Agreed. The obvious way to continue is to throw all of the players who've used the N-word out of the league and ban them from the facilities. They won't do it, why? From Sinobas, above:

My initial judgements were based on the cherry picked quotes. They changed once I actually listened to the tape.

 

1%ers deserve more tax breaks for their conservation. Here's how one conserves basketballs on his yachts.

https://twitter.com/dkberman/status/461874884562280449/photo/1

 

I have been growing increasingly uncomfortable with the bloodlust that is occuring over this incident. The guy is pretty obviously a prick, but the last I checked, that wasn't against the law. The NBA could force him out, depending on their bylaws, but I don't think the talking heads will be satisfied until he has been completely devoured.

 

This is how I see it... The owners will vote to force him to sell because they are publicly being pressured. Then Sterling will most likely start the "anti-trust" lawsuit, stating that he cannot be forced to sell unless he was doing illegal acts or losing money. Neither are the case. I think the total asking price will be $1.2 billion with punitive damages by the "tax hit" and not being a part of the selling process.

So as much as I agree that Stern is a douché and I'm glad he's out of the NBA, he's going to rape the other owners on his way out.

Now there is another way of doing things... I think Adam Silver should allow Sterling to transfer ownership to his children and go through the approval process. Giving Sterling some sort of "due process" and ability to save money in capital gains, can take away a large liability and "anti-trust" lawsuit in the future.

 

When you listen to fools, the mob rules.

Professional hypersensitivity FTW.

 

The interesting thing to me, is that he's a lame duck owner. He has no power. He can't be involved in any way, shape, or form with the basketball operations. So what good is retaining ownership?

 

I think he understands that it would be impossible for Sterling to have any say or re-admittance back into the NBA, but Silver made it perfectly clear that the ban was only on him. This was when a question was asked if Sterling could transfer ownership to his wife.

But, Sterling has a case if they don't allow him an exit strategy that doesn't cost him millions of dollars. The NBA and the owners can be on the hook for that.

 

The elephant in the room: is Sterling even mentally competent? Is this bigotry, eccentricity or dementia?

If Sterling fights his ouster from the NBA, he could be setting himself up to lose control of his entire empire. His family might well go all out to help the NBA prove his incompetence.

 

He's a lawyer. He knows how to play the game. If I were Sterling, I'd punish my enemies by dragging this out for years in the courts.

Kind of how I punish everyone on this board. There is pleasure in making others cuss your name.

 

Donald has already been convicted in the court of public opinion and I'm sure they'd let him know about it if he attended any more games. He's ostracized from the NBA community, so he might sell anyway. But now that the NBA is trying to force him out, he wants to fight back.

I think a public rebuke by the NBA and it's owners should have been enough. He's going to be punished in social ways for his comments.

 

Link? He has never been convicted...

 

New article on SI says he wasn't banned from games, just from all message boards.