[Sacajaweau]

Here's what I see....a conspiracy to underbid...And someone gets a cut and it changes hands to show the real buyers. In other words...it's a scam. Wonder how much the chick got?? The instigator....Johnson.

Now that's if they can force him to sell.

No matter....this is so wrong....sets race relations back another 50 years.

It may not be right...but I hope these black gestapos get their just due.

Zimmerman....Paula Dean...the Duke Boys....and now this

[Dilbert San Diego]

Zimmerman, Paula Deen, the guy from Mozilla who gave money to Proposition 8, Chick Fill A, the Miss USA pageant girl who had the audacity to say she thought marriage was a man and a woman — what all have in common is that they were targeted for destruction because they violated political correctness. The campaigns against them had the full cooperation of the media, which is a factor here also.

If Sterling had made stark comments about gun rights people, or the tea party, or born again Christians, do you think the NBA commissioner would have swooped in so quickly and ban him from the NBA?????

I wonder how the commissioner decided on this penalty. In 3 short days, from the story hitting the news, to the announcement of the penalty, how detailed an investigation did he do? I mean, did he investigate all angles, such as the background of the girl involved, her ulterior motives? Did he investigate whether there is any legal liability for the NBA, or anyone, if these tapes were made illegally? Did he really have NBA attorneys research if he was administering a legal penalty? Did he really have NBA attorneys research whether he can force a sale of the Clippers if Sterling doesn’t want to sell?

As a side issue, it’s hard to believe that in only 3 days, a commissioner administered the death penalty, and wonder how he did a thorough investigation of all of the issues involved.

[Cats Pajamas]

And what if the little chick came home to Sterling with HIV on her lips?

“.......girlfriend at nightclub, kissed they....... friend and then came home with they AIDS on they lips” Eddie Murphy-Delirious

[grania]

What's to stop the NBA commissionar from forcing a sale to Magic Johnson? The law? I don't think it's that outrageous an outcome, given that all of this was based on a tape that was probably illegally to air.

The NBA is through. Not next year. Maybe not this decade. But it's through. The billionaire white guys who like expensive toys mostly didn't get where they are by being stupid. Why would they in the future put themselves in a situation in which if someone wants to undermine them is all it takes is some poorly chosen out of context words? The advertisers?..if enough people are outraged, it might be to their benefit to reach the minority audience in other ways.

I'm a Cleveland near-resident by choice. I follow sports. NBA is hugely popular here, but the feelings about how LeBron treated Dan Gilbert when he up and left for Miami aren't totally gone. I wonder if there's a point where a lot of loyal fans and supporters will say "enough" and satisfy their love of basketball with March Madness insanity.