The Clippers won't even help a cancer victim ......

[ElNono]

As far as the OP, lots of respect for the players involved. Sterling is a piece of .

[cobbler]

as a cancer survivor, I say Donald Sterling. That hold ...maybe him and KG can share a room together

on beating and staying ahead in the battle. May it forever stay that way for you and family. My hats off to you!

[duncan228]

Fear and loathing of David Stern
By Adrian Wojnarowski

The commissioner’s office will never escape this truth: In so many ways, Donald Sterling has carried out the NBA ownership vision of David Stern.

Bully and mistreat your employees.

Treat the front office and coaches like necessary evils with bare minimum salaries and staffing.

Turn a profit in a sparkling new arena.

Stern has long preached that coaches are too expensive, scouts too plentiful and perhaps no one has heeded the commissioner’s words like the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner. He has a history of hiring them cheap, and refusing to honor contracts. The NBA has a history of letting it go without protests.

Yes, Stern’s silence and inaction on Sterling’s de able behavior has to be considered as some level of approval. Now, Kim Hughes tells the story to the Racine (Wis.) Journal-Times about how Sterling didn’t pay for his prostate cancer surgery as a Clippers assistant coach several years ago. Clippers players contributed much of the $70,000 needed to take care of the costs that weren’t covered by Hughes’ medical insurance.

And once Sterling fires those coaches and scouts, he often stops paying the balance of their contracts. He dares them to sue. Some can, and do. Some can’t afford the legal fight and end up settling for pennies on the dollar.

This happened with scouts Scott Wissel and Jerry Holloway a year ago. They made less than six figures a year, and the Clippers simply stopped paying them. Essentially, Sterling was telling them, “The season’s over, and so what if your deal runs October to October. It’s April, get lost and we aren’t paying you.”

Eventually, Holloway won a settlement, and Wissel had to fight more than a year to get part of his money. Where was the league office? Where was Stern’s indignity?

This has been going on for years, and the commissioner’s office has allowed it. Often the only injustices in the NBA are injustices directed at Stern. He saves his moral indignity for those daring to challenge him, like Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy late last week. For Stern, here was a crusade worthy of his ire.

Keep reading...

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-sternnba031511

[Jacob1983]

That sucks about the cancer victim. You're a real in prick if you won't cover your employee's medical bills especially when you can. And excellent yahoo article about Stern being a bully.

[sribb43]

on beating and staying ahead in the battle. May it forever stay that way for you and family. My hats off to you!

Thanks bro... I wish I could beat Sterling's ass just like I beat the disease

[baseline bum]

Wow, no wonder Brand wanted out of there so quickly. I can't wait until Blake walks from that piece of franchise.

[Jt.ONE]

It's a good Maggette was overpaid

[KillerMamba]

Clearly, DTS is a piece of , but the article doesn't state that Hughes' surgery was covered by the teams insurance, only that he probably wanted to get it done by an out of network physician. Not excusing him, but the media (and especially "Ball don't lie") has a way of distorting the facts, and leaving out information.

[Kyle Orton]

as a cancer survivor, I say Donald Sterling. That hold ...maybe him and KG can share a room together

Tbh I'm not trying to be a at all, but I do find it funny a cancer survivor can be so pessimistic

[elbamba]

It's not fishy. Differences:

1) Salary of doctor (which needs to include doctor's malpractice insurance)
2) Salary of anesthesiologist (which needs to include anesthesiologist's malpractice insurance)
3) Hospital malpractice insurance (in Argieland there's a tort limit for malpractice, not so in the US)
4) Cost of hospital stay (free or cheap in Argieland, about $3000/day in the US)
5) Some of the medicine cannot be generics (due to patents in the US, most all generics in Argieland)
6) Cost of labs/tests (overload/repe ion of tests in the US due to CYA at ude in case of a lawsuit, no such problem in Argentina)

That's why Medical Tourism is widespread...

EDIT: Forgot to add because it's kind of obvious around these places, but the Doctor, Anesthesiologist and Hospital all make a fairly decent earning out of the whole thing. Not necessarily always the case in Argieland.

Actaully, many states have tort caps on medmal. Yet the insurance prices to doctors and hospitals continues to rise. I believe in Cali, it is capped at 250,000. Sure does suck if a doctor takes off the wrong body part.

[sribb43]

Tbh I'm not trying to be a at all, but I do find it funny a cancer survivor can be so pessimistic

I'll still knock a out