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Can The NBA really ban LA Clippers-owner Donald Sterling from any and/or all NBA games?
4/30/2014 | Laissez-Faire Capitalist

Posted on 04/30/2014 1:03:10 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

If and when Sterling becomes an ex-owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, how can the NBA keep him from attending a Bulls-Knicks game in Chicago, for example, if he walks in just like everyone else?

If Sterling can be banned, can some person who posts racially-charged epithets online on whatever online media platform be identified by the NBA as an "undesirable" - a persona non grata - and summarily "banned" from all NBA games?

Are we now in the age where the owner of a "restaurant" who said no to blacks eating in his restaurant is booted out, his restaurant bought, and then he is banned from eating in that "restaurant?"

But Adam Silver's desire seems, seems to go beyond wanting him banned from just that one "restaurant."

Banned from ALL NBA "restaurants?"

Can one hunt monsters and become a monster?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: adamsilver; california; clippers; donaldsterling; donsterling; losangeles; losangelesclippers; naacp; nba; rochellesterling; scandals; sterling; tyranny; vanessastiviano
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1 posted on 04/30/2014 1:03:10 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist; All

Can they?


2 posted on 04/30/2014 1:03:33 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I believe the ticket stub says something like they reserve the right to refuse service. They can ban fans who get caught throwing bottles or fighting in the stands.


3 posted on 04/30/2014 1:05:13 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

The guy doesn’t seem like much of a monster IMO.


4 posted on 04/30/2014 1:05:19 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I’ve been basically making the same argument on another thread.

There are many here who refuse to see.


5 posted on 04/30/2014 1:06:21 PM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Yes, they do it all the time for people who run onto the field/court during games.


6 posted on 04/30/2014 1:06:24 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Can they?

You bet they can.
7 posted on 04/30/2014 1:06:50 PM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: mmichaels1970; All

A ban based upon the “right to service” for fighting in a previous arena - that I can see.

But how can someone be banned for being a racist?

What next, banned for being an adulterer, an alcoholic, an ex-con, someone covered in tattoos that the NBA doesn’t like, and so on?

How many sins can one be banned for?


8 posted on 04/30/2014 1:08:55 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

They can try, but Sterling might have some recourse in a court of law.


9 posted on 04/30/2014 1:10:22 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: driftdiver

A ban based upon “right to serve” based upon a person fighting in another arena - that I could see.

But a ban for being a racist?

What next, a ban for being supposedly “anti-Muslim” or being an adulterer, and alcoholic, ex-con?

What next?


10 posted on 04/30/2014 1:10:39 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

He owns a franchise in the NBA, he doesn’t own the NBA.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the NBA has language and authority to rescind a franchise award.
If you owned a McDonalds, could they rescind your franchise license if you started publicly attending Klan rallies and getting their name drug through the mud?


11 posted on 04/30/2014 1:10:49 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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How, legally?

If someone was banned because of fighting in another arena, that I could see.

But banned for being a racist?

What next, banned for adultery, drinking, smoking, being a supposed “anti-Muslim”, banned for being an ex-con?

What next?

12 posted on 04/30/2014 1:12:24 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
They should let him in, after frisking him for bananas.
13 posted on 04/30/2014 1:14:35 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort (If you have a Boehner lasting more than 23 years, seek immediate medical attention)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

He better not try watching them on TV, either! We’ll find out!


14 posted on 04/30/2014 1:14:52 PM PDT by Argus
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Ultimately it has to be this way. People have to feel the pain of their actions in order to learn from them. They refuse to think, so pain is the ultimate teacher.

I don’t mean Sterling and the NBA. I mean society. It has to have the PC police run riot and destroy it all. It has devolved into a hive mind mob because liberals took critical thinking and logic off the educational table in no small part in accordance with the 1963 communist goals.

It sucks for the people that do think before they act. It isn’t ‘fair’ or ‘just’ or anything like that. But it is the world we live in. And it will soon eat itself, then stand there looking for someone other than itself to blame.


15 posted on 04/30/2014 1:14:56 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Gunslingr3
Rescinding your license is one thing.

But they could not ban the previous franchise owner from EATING in a Mcdonald’s.

If Sterling were an owner of said McDonald's and he drug their name through the mud, rescinding his license would be one thing, but how could they tell him that he couldn't eat in a Mcdonald’s (after they stripped his license) in say Chicago - walking in and ordering a Big Mac like everyone else.

16 posted on 04/30/2014 1:15:08 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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As an owner he is currently a representative of the NBA. He probably signed some sort of "morals" clause when he purchased the team which basically said that if he ever became a disgrace to the league then he could be banned.

If he sells the team then he will no longer be a representative of the NBA. If he attends games without incident, then he should probably be OK, but the NBA might still decide that having cameras focused on him and broadcast over the airwaves might still be an affront and still kick him out.

Being a racist (or merely ethnocentric or whatever he is) is not currently a protected class so he could be kicked out and wouldn't have a legal foot to stand on.

17 posted on 04/30/2014 1:15:23 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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Banned for being a low bar racist. Low Bar Racism is one of the highest sins in Secular society. However, from a christian standpoint, Sterlings words and actions barely raise to the level of a sin as in our personal lives we are able to freely choose who we associate or dont’ associate with.

Consequently, its a sin against the State, society or our secularist culture. But it doesnt meet the bar for a personal sin against God, ignoring the tawdry affair he’s involved with outside of his marriage.


18 posted on 04/30/2014 1:18:06 PM PDT by RBStealth (--raised by wolves, disciplined and educated by nuns.)
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Yes they can do it and we the people can refuse to support anything NBA too.

This is way over the top. This is a stupid man without a doubt but the reaction is not proportionate to the offense.

IT is time to turn the other cheek, turn our bodies, take our money, and walk away. Let us see just how long the welfare drawing food stamp collecting 13% minority black community of this country can support the outrageous money the NBA players get.

Reality is that the majority of this black minority does not have the money to buy the shoes that these super spoiled and rich ball players wear. Just how are they supposed to buy the tickets to the games or give the sponsors a good return on their advertising dollars?

The answer is they can not support the NBA without a big wad of white people cash.

We simply need to take all that money away and let them figure things out for themselves.

Stop and remember all the racial crap that the Rev Wright was yelling. That was all defended by at least one black NBA fan that I know of.

If you want equality then be equal. If you do not want to be equal with equal responsibilities then be gone and take care of yourself with your own dollars.

19 posted on 04/30/2014 1:20:09 PM PDT by oldenuff2no (Citizen.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Free speech is dead. The man might be vermin or not, but all of us lose when one man is silenced.


20 posted on 04/30/2014 1:20:11 PM PDT by lurk
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