Can they?
He better not try watching them on TV, either! We’ll find out!
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.
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.
Free speech is dead. The man might be vermin or not, but all of us lose when one man is silenced.
There is a hotel here in Santa Monica called the Shangri-La..its owned by a Pakistani millionaire..a few years ago the hotel was sued because an Israeli wanted to stay at the hotel, he was told by the Pakistani owner “We don’t want any Jews at this hotel” no one forced him out, no one forced him to sell it..its such a double standard..as far as Sterling selling the team, its not gonna happen, he should fight for his team its HIS team, maybe he can transfer the team to his wife or his daughter..otherwise he should pull the “If I go down I will take this team down with me” he has nothing left to lose
I think the fact that the tape was illegally recorded and illegally released has something to do with it. I’ve been tols that it has nothing to do with it, but I’m not convinced. The way I see it, Sterling is the victim of a crime. He’s an asshole, but he’s a private asshole, and what was released was done criminally and against his will. So how is he responsible for it? And if he’s not responsible, how did “he” break his morals clause with the NBA? In fact, how did the NBA not bring bad PR on itself by acting so precipitously, instead of having a quiet investigation?
For example, what if he claims that he used racist terminology against her on the phone to shame her for sleeping around on him. What if he claims that SHE is actually a racist, and is acting out in a self-loathing way by sleeping with black guys SHE believes are lesser people because of theier skin color. What if he then claims that he insulted her with HER OWN racism on the phone as a form of tough love, to snap her out of her own self-loathing behavior. And then what if he says that she released this tape out of context in a hateful reaction to him showing her her self-abusive activity - which was sleeping around, and not sleeping around with black guys. So he could claim that the problem with HER is that she’s a racist, and the phone call is being heard completely out of context.
See? That’s what I mean by it’s a PRIVATE phone call. It could be part of ANYTHING. And it was released by a woman who is being sued by Sterling for embezzling millions of dollars from him, so of course it is also suspect for that!
Morals clause or not, there is a procedure for investigating such things within the contract world. And you can be sure that Sterling’s lawyers are going to sue the NBA for publically slandering him, violating those procedures, and not performing a proper investigation which now cannot be doen because of the public shaming that denies him a forumn for reply or defense. The guy is a billionaire, he’s not going to take this sitting down.
The NBA acted stupidly and politically and turned on one of their own. And they did it to push the idea that people can be destroyed without due process for being called racists by a mob, without any opportunity to defend themselves. This is a left-wing showpiece play designed to push the destruction agenda of the Left, nothing less.
People need to wake up.
The next thing will be “thought police” in the country. I think this was overblown more than anything I can remember of late. Why is Jeremiah wright still allowed to preach at his “church” if this was offensive? Talk about hate speech, he has the market cornered on that issue.
Oh wait, he is one of holder’s people.
Yes. They can. Someone would have to recognize him and tell NBA security.
I don’t think Pete Rose goes to baseball games.
We stopped watching NBA games years ago when we realized the officiating was rigged. This was before the NBA official came out and admitted it.
Yes. Private businesses have the right to ban anyone for any reasons as long as it’s not sex, race, religion, disability (and apparently now sexual orientation). Let’s not compromise our principles for one idiot. Also, the tape might have been illegally obtained, but as far as we know the NBA has nothing to do with it, so they can use it as it is public knowledge. For an example, an employee of yours is caught with child porn on his computer, the case is thrown out on a technicality, can you fire him?
Aren’t most of these arenas owned by the public, paid for with tax dollars, and a private citizen can be banned for freedom of speech occurring in his own home?
Seems like the fastest *investigation* in NBA history. Was there even an investigation?
Why haven’t they banned Jayz or Shaq for life? Equally offensive (content of character), yet they get a pass?