Posted on 04/29/2014 8:03:13 PM PDT by absentee
In today's press conference covering the lifetime ban and $2.5 million fine against Clippers owner Donald Sterling over his racist remarks, a Fox News' The Kelly File reporter asked NBA Commissioner Adam Silver if he was on a "slippery slope."
“Should someone lose their team for remarks shared in private? Is this a slippery slope?”
Jovian Lien is not the first person to raise the question of freedom of speech in the handing down of punishment against Sterling. On Monday, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban asked the same essential question, also using the phrase "slippery slope."
"I think there's a constitution for a reason, right? Because this is a very slippery slope," said Cuban. "What Donald said was wrong. It was abhorrent. There's no place for racism in the NBA, any business I'm associated with, and I don't want to be associated with people who have that position." He added "I think you've got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It's a very, very slippery slope."
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UCLA (pron. “uk-lah”) turned down a couple million donation from Sterling for research, because he doesn’t fit in with the slick PR version of what UCLA wants everyone to believe about UCLA. Sterling has not had a sterling reputation for years already, but the publicity for this particular thing has been enormous — other than the FACT that Don Sterling is a LIFELONG DEMOCRAT.
One wonders why she “needed” more than one vehicle, and where they are, considering he probably has a car sent over for her.
Sterling was trying to hide assets— hiding these properties away from his wife, who was suing him for divorce over this witch, so that he could reduce his real holdings, and thereby affect a lesser settlement to the wife.
The wife, who is not a dunce, discovered the obvious. :)
Sterling was trying to hide assets— hiding these properties away from his wife, who was suing him for divorce over this witch, so that he could reduce his real holdings, and thereby affect a lesser settlement to the wife.
The wife, who is not a dunce, discovered the obvious. :)
it is Machiavellian.
Thanks RitaOK.
Sports leagues are closed communities in which participants sign on to the rules of operation. Sterling signed on to those rules. He’s got every right to challenge the rules, but if those rules prevail, then we come back to: Sterling signed on to the rules.
I don’t see it as any different than signing on to the rules of any private organization. I don’t see it as a matter of “rights”.
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