Posted on 05/04/2014 7:23:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's Jew Vs. Jew as Battle Over Team Heats Up.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Sunday he expects Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to put up a “long, protracted fight” to retain ownership of the team after being banned for life from the National Basketball Association because of racial comments.
Garcetti, appearing on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” program, was asked about a potential boycott of Clippers games if Sterling balks and said, “I would certainly keep that arrow in my quiver.”
Last week NBA Commissioner Adam Silver fined Sterling $2.5 million and imposed a lifetime ban after the revelation of taped conversations in which he told his friend, V. Stiviano, that he did not want her to bring black people to Clippers games or pose for pictures with them.
The NBA Board of Governors is expected to meet within the next two weeks to vote on forcing a sale of the team.
Sterling, who built a fortune estimated at $1.9 billion through Los Angeles-area real estate holdings, bought the Clippers for $12 million in 1981 and the franchise now is valued at $430 million by Forbes magazine....
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Seems like the senile old coot billionaire was illegally recorded, entrapped, and conspired against to have his team removed from his control and subject to sale against his will with the black perpetrators braying about it in plain sight.
If you don’t think this won’t have a major effect on tickets sales by whites in the parts of the country that are not run by insane communists, you don’t know flyover country.
I assume even if he is forced to sell, the co conspirators can’t name the price.
Whats to stop him from saying sure the team is for sale, FOR A TRILLION DOLLARS.
Or will they just seize the team outright and give it to “Magic” Johnson or Oprah?
The NBA is going to wish they never opened up this can of worms, a three day investigation by that dweeb Silver isn’t going to stand up very well in court.
Pathetic bunch of racist hypocrites losers and imbeciles from top to bottom, even Chavez and Maduro wouldn’t try to pull a stunt like this.
Why should he be fined for his private opinion?
If the government forces you to sell anything for the sake of PC its a sad state of affairs; not the USA I grew up in.
Ping me when NBA revenue is hurt by this.
“If you do not like Sterling, boycott his services, products and brands”
Frankly, I don’t even WATCH pro basketball, or spend or make money with anything involving it. The other franchisees of the teams and all the people employed in NBA-related activities by them do, and their appointed representative and leader, Mr. Silver, has rendered his judgement.
If you think Donald Sterling is a representative of flyover country, maybe you don't know flyover country. I doubt Sterling has ever been in a state East of Nevada and West of New York.
I disliked the guy before this ever happened. He was a big time Obama supporter. We are entering the era of thought police and if the liberals think they will come out of this unscathed they are mistaken. This kind of things hits everyone.
What government is forcing someone to sell what?
I don't think the wife will go gentle.
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I wish upon you the capital gains tax on $500 million.
This is not about Sterling.
It’s about a group of black racists illegally conspiring to seize control of a basketball team from a white racist, with the NBA acting as co-conspirators, and how that will effect the perception of the NBA nationwide.
I highly doubt anything is going to be seized, but if it is ever sold Sterling is going to get north of $1 billion.
“If the government forces you to sell anything for the sake of PC its a sad state of affairs; not the USA I grew up in.”
Other than political figures chiming in (I don’t recall that they gave up the right to do so by being elected), how is the government involved here?
If you really want to go down that road, many municipalities have a stake in these teams, by providing facilities and infrastructure. To the best of my knowledge, no one “forced” any team owner to make use of these facilities. So, in those cases, the public DOES have a stake in the behavior of many sports franchises (I don’t know the particulars in this particular case). But this relationship between major league franchises and government has existed for years, and I don’t recall anything but the franchisees making demands and threatening to otherwise leave until they got their goodies.
Aside from all of that should any man suffer for his private opinion? Keep in mind that he voiced it in private that was divulged by his his traitorous girlfriend.
Mark Cuban On Donald Sterling
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They just don't make racists like they used to. I'll bet this was not the first conversation about this matter that Sterling had with V. I think that there is more to this than simple (I mean simple) racism on the part of Sterling. According to V's archivist story there should be lots and lots of tapes.
I have to think the playoff ratings will be bigger this year for it happening.
Seems to me if a fast food franchise owner was recorded by his lizard person mistress named V as telling her he didn’t want her to eat 80% of the food they sell in public and a competing company used it in an ad campaign something would be done by the parent company. And food can’t strike anytime much less during your most important time of year.
Freegards
And why are you posting this to me, I agree that what is said in private, no matter how vile, is private. How can liberals claim a woman has a right to privacy but a man doesn’t? Really?
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