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Sterling will sue the NBA and win. They can't legally do what they just did. It was all a smokescreen to patronize the players.
Sterling the racist, according to some, says they aren't for sell. But everyone else is rooting for Magic. You know the girlfriend of both.
Sterling will sue the NBA and win. They can't legally do what they just did. It was all a smokescreen to patronize the players.
Plus, assuming it was recorded in California the recording was illegal.
yep, I wonder if Sterling will sue?
" Section 637.2 provides statutory civil penalties up to $5,000 for violations of California’s "secret recording" statutes, "
http://www.rcfp.org/reporters-recording-guide
If Magic buys it I'll expect that he will trade Griffin to the lakers for old ass Kobe. Clippers will become the lakers developmental team.
is there an NBA rule about one owner owning 2 teams in one market?
or even one owner owning two teams anywhere?
Of course it's legal. He signed a contract to become an owner, and he willingly relinquished certain rights in the process.
It would be difficult for him to now challenge the NBA cons ution after living under it's umbrella as an owner for decades.
Similarly, if the rest of the owners vote to kick him out, it will likely be legal too.
I'm sure he can try to fight in court, but I don't think he'll succeed. Apparently, part of the contractual aspect is that commissioner decisions are binding and final, and they're just as good as a ruling obtained through arbitration. Good luck finding a judge that overturns that.
Someone should start following Jerry Jones around with a recording device.
Nah man, the Cowboys are perfect as they are!
The NBA cons ution is secret, do you have a copy?
From what the paper says, the owners' group, whose cons ution Sterling signed/agreed to, can vote out any owner. How is that illegal?
That's not going to happen. Billionares will stick together. This is all a charade. the naacp just stated they are open to working with Sterling in the future...he just needs to cough up a little chump change.
The billionaire owners will likely side with Silver because installing an ownership group who will consistently try to build compe ive teams will make those owners a lot more money in national TV deals when the league has a second marquee franchise in LA. Instead of an owner who was content to put garbage teams out on the floor and collect his share of luxury tax payments from the rest of the league and be profitable only because he was in such a huge market. No way you could run your team like the Clippers and survive in San Antonio, OKC, Milwaukee, etc. when you wouldn't have 18 million people to draw form.
The path to redemption is already being set...
NAACP Willing to 'Forgive' Clippers' Donald Sterling After Yanking Award
http://abcnews.go.com/US/naacp-forgi...ry?id=23501911
"God teaches us to forgive, and the way I look at it, after a sustained period of proof to the African American community that those words don't reflect his heart, I think there's room for forgiveness. I wouldn't be a Christian if I said there wasn't," Jenkins said.
"We are negotiating with him about giving more moneys to African American students at UCLA, and so we are in preliminary discussions," Jenkins said.
Brent Barry tweeted out a link to the NBA Cons ution and By-Laws a couple of hours ago. Looks legit to me:
http://mediacentral.nba.com/media/me...nd-By-Laws.pdf
But he can put the NBA in a position to spend a lot of money and get involved in an ugly process.
I sense out-of-court settlement in the making. Sterling will likely come out of this a financial winner.
I'm not an expert and am only going by the article, but it says that he would lose very quickly and humiliatingly
It takes a vote of 3/4 of the other team owners to force a sale. If that many of them did vote yes...
No, the recording is said to be by consent because he forgets what he says. I have a tendency to believe that.
Well I wouldn't say your wrong. That all seems to make sense but I'm not an NBA owner. If I was I would have to think long and hard about setting a precedent that my team could be taken from me because of an illegally recorded private conversation.
No kidding. I'll bet the other team owners would hesitate, wondering what impact private remarks they make would have if they got recorded and out?
I have read quite a few things on this topic. At one point, I have read that all his conversations with her are recorded, and they both know it. It is one of their agreements because he is senile and forgetful.
Oh ok, I hadn't heard about any of that.
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