And rushing it through to avoid the owners vote, which would be made public.
Is anybody else weirded out by a guy losing his team and being subjected to the digital pitchfork mob for stuff he said in private?
Let's see what is on everybody else's smartphone and email. If some of the me and my friends text each other was ever made public, we'd be taken to Huntsville in Hannibal masks and shackles.
Rewarding sterling for making racist comments.
Americans are so stupid.
The nba was forced to because of their skeletons in the closet that sterling was gonna drag into the open.
The NBA has been waiting to nail Sterling for a long time. Even with his other dealings with his businesses, slumlord etc, I don't know why the NBA waited so long, and this was all it took to ban him. I hope it is long and messy.
Certainly not as stupid as you are
Findog, if the race armchair activists found out about this forum, they're gonna explode in anger while feigning anger and disgust in their respective armchairs.
Sterling ain't got compared to the racism that happens in SpursTalk. It's just magnified because of his stature and the size of his pocket.
How so? Care to tell me how Ibaka made all the difference again?
28 point loss
Shouldn't have been poking at that hornet's nest.
Should have listened to Cuban.
Agree 100%. Cuban was the only owner, publicly at least, that was a voice of reason.
Sterling was declared mentally incapacitated under the terms of the trust. So the team can be sold without his consent because he is mentally incapacitated. That means that this whole thing started because of the words of a mentally incapacitated man are being held against him. And for the owners to say that it is well known that he has been racist for years then they are huge hypocrites. Because if they knew for years and did nothing then the offense is not being racist, but being caught being racist in public.
Didn't you just contradict your own argument?
Weirded out? Perhaps. However, it isn't surprising that something like this has happened. Not by a long shot and if you are, then you really haven't been paying attention. The NBA got its out card for Sterling. The dude was deplorable and if you had lived in the SoCal market, you would've known that from beginning to the end. If you're going to cost the NBA sponsorship in the 2nd largest market, then you will eventually get shown the door. You reap what you sow and the next rhetoric should be let's move on from this and crown a champion.
This is some serious mafioso type stuff. Have the man declared "mentally incapacitated", come in with what appears to be a completely ridiculous offer...Too many things adding up to not be skeptical that there are a lot of strings being pulled here, of questionable legality.
This argument somewhat collapses on itself when you factor in that all the sponsors knew Sterling and how he was before this and still had no problems getting into bed with him. Top flight talents (CP3/Blake..) had no problems signing there and top flight coaches (so they say) in Doc had no problem taking the job. Really a stretch IMO, to say he cost the NBA anything major at this point.
It's society's fault if your boss hired you despite a massive do ented track record (both legally and anecdotally) for the same offense then used an illegally recorded conversation in order to fire you for that offense. While at the same time ignoring other similar offenses by coworkers and not giving them punishment any where near the level of what you received.
You have a valid point--it hasn't cost the NBA much in the way of visible losses. Yeah they knew who he was to begin with and chose to still sponsor the Clippers and the NBA as a whole. However, in this world of wait and react, it shouldn't be that much of a surprise that they'd pull their sponsorship to protect their own cons uency. What better way to show some solidarity (genuine or not) with something like racial equality than to 'distance' yourself from the source when the situation is front and center. In the long run, it might've cost the league more with the legal battle and may still end up doing so. This whole scenario is wacky though and it'll be interesting to see what Ballmer ends up doing.
lol so in other words it's okay for Donald Sterling to pull from the "7 year old boy" bag of tricks and complain that "everybody else is saying bad stuff, why can't I? It's not fair!"
Whether the NBA are hypocrites or not isn't the point. We knew they were well before this. The fact that anybody thinks Donald Sterling is getting screwed here, or getting anything other than exactly what he deserves, is just stupid.
I don't believe that if you have an outside source recording that it is private.
You are discussing morally (which I agree with) vs legally or logically (which I don't agree with). If I as your boss knowingly get into bed with you knowing about the same issues/your views on the subject, then use an illegally recorded conversation that was held in your private residence to oust you when I have never done so for anyone else doing things that are morally wrong, that doesn't sit well with me.
The result is correct. Everything else is not IMO. You may not agree, but I am sure if it were you, you would be singing a much different tune. If everyone at your office did certain things that were considered wrong and your boss got a hold of a convo your wife illegally recorded in the privacy of your home and you were fired for that, I am sure you wouldn't just say "Hey, I deserved it".
follow the money... that's all this is about...
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