Anchors Aweigh!
Can he negate contracts??
I bet he:
1. Brings criminal charges against his ex-girlfriend for illegal wiretapping.
2. Brings criminal charges against TMZ for distributing known illegal recordings.
3. Goes through his contracts with the NBA and sues them like crazy.
4. Ties up the Clippers so that Geffen and Magic Johnson can’t buy them
Victims Industry sees "Sterling" opportunity
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Celebrating 100 years!
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. ~ Booker T. Washington (1856-1915.) ~ Educator, Author, Civil Rights Leader
I’d be weighing
“Fiji or the Virgin Islands”...
Don’t care, don’t care, don’t care.
A legal expert on Fox said Sterling might have recourse through the courts. There could be right to privacy issues and questions of due process in the commissioner’s decision to impose harsh punishment and any vote by the other owners forcing Sterling to sell.
It seems like Sterling should be able to hire some shysters who could get the penalty reduced. It seems kinda severe.
If nothing else people now know that LA has two NBA teams.
Odd how newspapers aren’t repeating over and over that Sterling is a Democrat and has donated millions to Democrats.
I sure if they caught the Kock brothers saying the same types of things they would leave out the ‘Republican connection’.../s
eff you LA Times
Jim Gray said on Fox this morning that Sterling could sell the Clippers for “more than a billion” dollars.
In Forbes’ most recent listing of the world’s 50 most valuable sports franchises, there isn’t an NBA team in the top 40. The Knicks are 43rd at $780 million and are the only NBA team in the top 50.
Sterling may sell and since he paid $12 million to buy the team in the 1980s, he’ll get a good return. But he won’t get the huge dollars some people think.
File this under: Sterling Silver
I have no sympathy for Sterling, he gives no quarter and he asks none. Good that is the way it should be when the big boys play.
However, is public opinion on a private conversation sufficient grounds to take a billion dollar business away from it owner?
In a free country with free speech and free enterprise public opinion can take away your private property because someone is offended?
Once we open this door, ownership of private property could become a popularity game show on television: "who deserves to be an owner".
Silver made a mistake. The league will have to pay a heavy price to buy Sterling out.
The first thing he needs to do is file a felony complaint against the bimbo for taping him without his permission. She won’t be so desirable after five years in jail.
Regardless of WHAT he said, what she DID is a crime.
In those days, Boyle Heights was a Jewish community whose main drag was Brooklyn Avenue. Today, Brooklyn Avenue is called Avenida César Chávez, a name which suggests how the neighborhood has changed.
With no due process.