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Donald Sterling receives lifetime ban
ESPN ^ | ESPN.com news services

Posted on 04/29/2014 11:28:41 AM PDT by conservative98

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling received a lifetime ban from the NBA and a $2.5 million fine.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced the discipline Tuesday...

(Excerpt) Read more at espn.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: adamsilver; boycottnba; california; clippers; donaldsterling; donsterling; extortion; lifetimeban; losangeles; losangelesclippers; naacp; nba; roboldwhiteguy; rochellesterling; sterling; thugball; vanessastiviano
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To: EBH

Oh very true, but he’s not a “suspect class” so it won’t apply.


81 posted on 04/29/2014 11:46:52 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: fhayek

Probably read that on freepers last night , it was posted all over here. Bahahaha


82 posted on 04/29/2014 11:47:28 AM PDT by easternsky
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To: MortMan

He should simply shut down the team, completely. No contract buyouts, no nothing.
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I clicked on this thread to say exactly the same thing. Just close the doors, turn out the lights and hand out pink slips.


83 posted on 04/29/2014 11:47:28 AM PDT by RetSignman (ObamacACA is full of crap.)
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To: conservative98

This is bulls—t.


84 posted on 04/29/2014 11:47:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: RIghtwardHo

Where in the contract does it say he is held accountable for opinions expressed in private?


85 posted on 04/29/2014 11:47:56 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: thefactor
You guys have to admit, this guy is a scumbag.

Yes. He appears to be a scumbag.

Especially in light of what he did with his housing units years ago.

Did he do something illegal?

The NBA had evey right to do what they did.

I don't know. Maybe, contractually, they have the right. I haven't read the contracts he signed. Does that make it right? No. Not one bit. When we get to the point that private individuals having private conversations has become a litigious act, we have lost too much.

87 posted on 04/29/2014 11:48:02 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: thejokker
Every time somebody is accused of racism the argument needs to be changed to if a person approves of some blacks but disapproves of other blacks are they racist?

I don't know much about this particular case, but in general things are worse that even what you described.

If anyone (even a black) disagrees with the black liberal elite, that person is a racist. Against raising taxes? You are a racist. Favor charter schools? You are a racist.

This corrupts our society, shuts down free speech, and because of the boy-who-cried-wolf effect, actually hides true racism.

88 posted on 04/29/2014 11:48:15 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: jimjohn

Oddly, they declined to enumerate what the violations were. A reported asked a similar question.


89 posted on 04/29/2014 11:48:15 AM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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To: thefactor

I disagree.


90 posted on 04/29/2014 11:48:18 AM PDT by funfan
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To: RetSignman

He can’t. The NBA would just take the team and he would lose it all.


91 posted on 04/29/2014 11:48:19 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Guess Sterling is the new Emmanuel Goldstein.


92 posted on 04/29/2014 11:48:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: easternsky

I wouldn’t doubt it for an instant.


93 posted on 04/29/2014 11:48:32 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: hsmomx3

LOL


94 posted on 04/29/2014 11:48:39 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: conservative98

“The bitch set me up”


95 posted on 04/29/2014 11:48:40 AM PDT by Tula Git (There IS a coup in America and it's on track and almost complete.)
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To: conservative98

With the present owner banned for life, now Magic Johnson can buy an NBA team on the cheap, provide “public healing” and the NBA can “move on.”

A cynic would say that it was all planned in advance.


96 posted on 04/29/2014 11:49:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: circlecity; HerrBlucher
This has nothing to do with freedom of speech. An dit does not matter that the recording was made illegally. The NBA contracts inculdes clauses about making the NBA, a private entity, look bad.

Privtae companies can put whatever they want in their contracts. And you are free to not sign them if you'd like. The 'rule of law' holds no jurisdiction.

97 posted on 04/29/2014 11:49:17 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: HerrBlucher

Again, I haven’t read it but “conduct detrimental” DOES include private acts, etc if they become public.


98 posted on 04/29/2014 11:49:21 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: thefactor
The NBA had evey right to do what they did.

For what, Words?!?!?! Maybe they had the right to do it, but it's a very slippery slope when people can lose a business due to words.

99 posted on 04/29/2014 11:49:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DoughtyOne

Possibly the most expensive hooker ever.


100 posted on 04/29/2014 11:50:01 AM PDT by PGR88
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