Clippers: Donald Sterling Banned For Life!!!

[Killakobe81]

him, even if this was just a good excuse to get a cheap owner out of a marquee market.

This!

[Kobe_5_Duncan_4]

Go watch Philadelphia starring Tom Hanks dumb . Were the courts not involved in personnel decisions of a private corporation?


stupid ing dumb

A corporation ruled and governed by elite lawyers should heed the advice of desert kickers

[Kobe_5_Duncan_4]

Tbh, I doubt you're even good enough for Tim to want to you in the ass.

Weak smack.

Tim's still a and that makes you an idiot by default.

[baseline bum]

While I don't agree with Mr. Sterling's comments, I don't think he should be punished for a PRIVATE conversation. This lifetime ban and forcing him to sell the team are a huge over reaction, and I hope he sues the NBA and wins. I have to agree with Mark Cuban on this one - this is a slippery slope - who are they going to target next?

You're crazy if you think is about one racist thing said on tape or even his history of it. The NBA has wanted this guy out for years because he's cheap and costs the league and the rest of the owners money by consistently having such a laughingstock of a team in a premiere market and refusing to act in good faith as an owner in trying to put a quality product on the floor. A team that he was never interested in putting any money into until he lucked into drafting Blake Griffin and having Chris Paul handed to him when Stern voided his trade to the Lakers. Any other owner says something like what Sterling did and you're looking at a playoff ban for appearances and probably some BS sensitivity counseling. The owners will say they voted him out because of his blatant racist views, but it'll really be about money and how much more Magic's ownership group will pour into the league, being in that market.

[jimbo]

Fundamentally, the NBA is a private association of team owners and absolutely has legal standing to conclude that the conduct of one member of that association is sufficiently egregious to boot his ass out.

Silver acted decisively, forcefully, and quickly. And unlike his predecessor, he took a massive moment in his league's history and chose not to make it about himself. It's a great day for the new Commissioner and more proof that the change in the Commissioner's office is more than just a new name on the letterhead and a new signature on the ball.

It's so much more complex than that though. You can't boil it down to just one or two sentences.

1) No precedent
2) Owners have to vote on it, Silver doesn't have authority to kick him out
3) An rust claims stemming from a forced sale of a team since it would presumably be below market value

This is the best article regarding the legal aspects of it so far

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba...am-silver-nba/

[Killakobe81]

In the end who cares the end result is all that matters ... and Clips and the league are all the better for it.

[jimbo]

Weak smack.

Tim's still a and that makes you an idiot by default.

Better smack than Kobe_5 Duncan_4.

too ugly to attract s.

If it ain't true, you wouldn't be bothered by it.

[ElNono]

It's so much more complex than that though. You can't boil it down to just one or two sentences.

1) No precedent
2) Owners have to vote on it, Silver doesn't have authority to kick him out
3) An rust claims stemming from a forced sale of a team since it would presumably be below market value

This is the best article regarding the legal aspects of it so far

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba...am-silver-nba/

IIRC, FWD is a lawyer...

[jimbo]

IIRC, FWD is a lawyer...

Then I'm guessing he didn't care because it was a quick forum post. It is that much more complex than the two sentences he wrote, that part isn't a lie. Think about when the Dodgers got sold and that was so much more clear cut than this.

Anyways, best case scenario is FWD can expand on some of the author's thoughts.

[Kobe_5_Duncan_4]

Better smack than Kobe_5 Duncan_4.

too ugly to attract s.

If it ain't true, you wouldn't be bothered by it.

Middle school smack

Meanwhile Tim Duncan is still a sexual and your denial of it makes you an idiot.

[hater]

You're crazy if you think is about one racist thing said on tape or even his history of it. The NBA has wanted this guy out for years because he's cheap and costs the league and the rest of the owners money by consistently having such a laughingstock of a team in a premiere market. A team that he was never interested in putting any money into until he lucked into drafting Blake Griffin and having Chris Paul handed to him when Stern voided his trade to the Lakers. Any other owner says something like what Sterling did and you're looking at a playoff ban for appearances and probably some BS sensitivity counseling. The owners will say they voted him out because of his blatant racist views, but it'll really be about money and how much more Magic's ownership group will pour into the league, being in that market.

So if the NBA hated him so much why did they hand him CP3 therefore raising the teams value greatly?

[jimbo]

Middle school smack

Meanwhile Tim Duncan is still a sexual and your denial of it makes you an idiot.

Getting upset from middle school smack.

Besides, how am I denying it? He's likely the greatest sexual of all time. Who else would be better on the all time list?

[Koolaid_Man]

So if the NBA hated him so much why did they hand him CP3 therefore raising the teams value greatly?

stop stealing my thoughts and ideas and passing them off as yours

[baseline bum]

So if the NBA hated him so much why did they hand him CP3 therefore raising the teams value greatly?

Because they were trying to sell the Hornets and didn't want the long-term money they were taking on from the Lakers dragging down the Hornets' sale price.

[ChumpDumper]

Dumb move and not sure if theres any legal standing.

So basically this means the NBA can ban all spurstalk posters from attending NBA games for life.

Well, you. Yes.

Pathetic big brother fascist regime move imo.

whats racist and whats not at this point? Only what Obamacare and the rest of the fascists tell u imo. What a sham

Sterling agreed to the rules.

It's pretty severe but he can cry himself to sleep on the billion dollars he is going to make off his $12 million investment.

[Kobe_5_Duncan_4]

Getting upset from middle school smack.

Besides, how am I denying it? He's likely the greatest sexual of all time. Who else would be better on the all time list?

Acceptance is the first step

[peacemaker885]

Wow totally unexpected. Silver showing some balls.

[FromWayDowntown]

It's so much more complex than that though. You can't boil it down to just one or two sentences.

1) No precedent
2) Owners have to vote on it, Silver doesn't have authority to kick him out
3) An rust claims stemming from a forced sale of a team since it would presumably be below market value

This is the best article regarding the legal aspects of it so far

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba...am-silver-nba/

That it's unprecedented doesn't make it legally questionable.

Your points 2 and 3 conflate the issues, and even the article you reference makes that clear. Silver has absolute authority to suspend and fine Sterling under the NBA's Bylaws and Cons ution and technically that's all he did today. He has suspended/banned Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million. Sterling still owns the team at this moment and continues to benefit in most of the financial ways that owners benefit from ownership of a team. He can only do it from a distance.

You're probably right about the legality of a forced sale of the franchise, and those issues will be sorted out in the months and years to come. Silver said that he will work on convincing the owners that they should expel Sterling and force a sale of the team; but the suspension that Silver validly levied does not require sale at this point.

Two very separate issues.

[ElNono]

Then I'm guessing he didn't care because it was a quick forum post. It is that much more complex than the two sentences he wrote, that part isn't a lie. Think about when the Dodgers got sold and that was so much more clear cut than this.

Anyways, best case scenario is FWD can expand on some of the author's thoughts.

Ofcourse he's not going to spell a case, he's simply stating that there's likely no legal impediment to get it done. The article you linked is complete speculation too, as the author admits the NBA cons ution is confidential.

From the fact that the NBA can contract the league (or expand it), you can gather that they certainly have the authority to shrink or grow that ownership pool.

[hater]

Because they were trying to sell the Hornets and didn't want the long-term money they were taking on from the Lakers dragging down the Hornets' sale price.

So they told sterling whom they hated so much "heres cp3 and 300 million dollars asshole?"

[The Gemini Method]

Don't feel bad bruhs...he still owns a load of real estate in the SoCal and NorCal areas. He's in the sunset of his bigoted life and he's going to probably still bang Mexican and Black chicks until his heart stops. The billions he is going to make off the sale of the Clips will also buy him a nice ride into the sunset.

[baseline bum]

So they told sterling whom they hated so much "heres cp3 and 300 million dollars asshole?"

Chris Paul dictated terms of where he could be traded by who he would sign an extension with.

[FromWayDowntown]

It would also be remarkably short-sighted of the owners to not include a method for expelling an owner from the association in at least some cir stances. For instance, if an owner is bribing game officials or engaged in horrible criminal activity of some other sort or endangering the best interests of the league, it would be unimaginable that his peers couldn't expel the owner and that the league might have to just live with that sort of conduct from a team owner.

I haven't read the bylaws or cons ution of the NBA, but I think the question with respect to the forced sale aspect of the Sterling case is less about whether the league can expel and owner and force a sale in general and more about whether these cir stances give rise to a basis to take that action.

[ElNono]

It would also be remarkably short-sighted of the owners to not include a method for expelling an owner from the association in at least some cir stances. For instance, if an owner is bribing game officials or engaged in horrible criminal activity of some other sort or endangering the best interests of the league, it would be unimaginable that his peers couldn't expel the owner and that the league might have to just live with that sort of conduct from a team owner.

I haven't read the bylaws or cons ution of the NBA, but I think the question with respect to the forced sale aspect of the Sterling case is less about whether the league can expel and owner and force a sale in general and more about whether these cir stances give rise to a basis to take that action.

Especially when it affects the league negatively monetarily. You have a case here where the league is damaged monetarily due to the loss of sponsorship among other things.

[Seventyniner]

I wonder if there is a clause that would allow the league to contract, getting rid of the Clippers, and then immediately grant Seattle with a team? This version would have to involve the Sonics getting the current Clippers roster rather than the normal expansion draft.