Punishing people for exercising their First Amendment rights flies in the face of the meaning of the First Amendment.
What rights are inviolable then?
Maybe there is some clause in the “NBA Owners Agreement” wherein he surrendered his Rights, but is such a clause legal in a business contract? Probably not.
All party consent required for recording surrendered, too?
Expectation of privacy in private conversations surrendered, too?
I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts, that when the smoke clears we will find out that little Miss Shanktail goaded him with her behavior and set him up for someone else to buy him out — maybe Magic Johnson?
The Old Testament is rife with tales of the downfall of almost every great man because of little Ms. Skanktails... some who wanted to even cost you your soul, not just a basketball team! But, we never seem to learn.
Did you read the response of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? A remarkably measured and thoughtful piece. He is bothered, if course, by the racism but also deeply disturbed by the invasion of privacy.
And he is a black man who used to work for the Clippers.