I think the path to ending Sterling’s ownership will require the owners to vote to end the Clippers franchise. Clippers no more. One less team in the league.
How awkward would that vote be? Looking around the room wondering who’s billion dollar asset will vanish next.
I doubt they go down that path. I think Sterling will sell the team to someone or something he owns and he will just fade to the back of the room.
I think it was Mark Cuban that foreshadowed what’s likely coming down the pike.
Say an owner supports a Christian charity or a Republican candidate and the NBA takes umbrage—That owner can expect to be pilloried and be stripped of his team, using the Sterling affair as a model.
I don’t care one whit about the NBA, but I do care that a man’s comments, made in private, are being used to rob him of his property. This should concern everyone.
It’s not a crime, at least not yet, to be an idiot and a boor. I say fight on Mr. Sterling.