I guess we could debate the size of capital gains tax...but ...
Whether or not the other owners made headlines or not won’t be an issue. They won’t want their dirty laundry aired in what will be a very public trial. After all, I might think Sterling is a snake belly, but what he said was said in private. Talk about the possibility of blowing the league to smithereens.
It’s pretty telling that no charges have been brought since there is a pretty tight timeline. They all just want to get thru the play-offs. And wait for things to go away.
Like I said earlier...worst case scenario, the wife files for divorce and stops the sale of any assets...for a really long time, if you catch my drift. Then the whole thing will go to her.
The headlines are the whole issue. That’s why they want to get rid of him. They’ve known about his racial problems for a long time, it’s been one of the NBA’s open secrets. But it never made headlines, so it wasn’t a problem. Doesn’t matter if he said it in private, it became public, worse it became FRONT PAGE. Damaged the league.
Sterling would be the one to press charges, and with all his excuse mongering he doesn’t seem to be doing a good job of waiting for things to go away. At this point he’s the only one still talking, if he’d shutup it would have gone away already... at least until the next owner’s meeting.
Remember they’re already estranged, technically he owns half and she owns half. Which makes things complicated. But the MLB already navigated similar waters with the Dodgers, I’m sure the NBA can borrow some lawyers. Also remember a lot of the race problems Sterling has had were actually the wife’s activities, many of which started making headlines when all this was roiling. So it’s not outside the realm to think if the owners vote one Sterling out they’ll vote them both out, they’ve both now generated headlines embarrassing to the league.