Posted on 04/29/2014 11:46:40 AM PDT by Mariner
There are bylaws that NBA owners are subject to. As long as this was all done within those bylaws (and you can bet the NBA owners and lawyers will dot all the I’s and cross the T’s before moving on) Sterling is toast and the private organization that the NBA is did not violate any anti trust laws
All this may well come out once they ostracize him.
The tell-all that he will author will probably bag him far more than the NBA fined him.
Agree... me.. I’m not a white exclusivist... I’m just a guy who doesn’t get pushed around all that easy. I’d go to the game tonight if I were him.
Iirc the big professional sports leagues have exemptions from anti-trust laws.
As if a bylaw can’t be unconstitutional?
The “force of law” was not brought down on Sterling. The NBA acted within its bylaws to protect its brand and money making machine. The NBA is a private organization which can act within the contracts signed between the parties.
The 2.5M is the maximum an owner can be fine and the commissioner has the discretion from his bosses (the other NBA owners) to dole out suspensions as he sees fit.
I always wondered why anyone in LA would root for the Clippers over the Lakers, anyway?
Why does LA need two basketball teams, especially when they play in the same arena?
It’s not like baseball and football where they two teams are in different leagues/conferences.
Agree...
Allegedly he ok’d the taping because he couldn’t remember details of conversations.
So in that regard it may be legal. However, if he was cognitively impaired to the point of needing intimate conversations recorded he may not have been mentally competant enough to grant consent.
The lawyers are going to have an absolute field day with this ...
This is worse than Eich being drummed out of the Mozilla board for a proposition 8 donation half a decade ago. Eich lost a leadership position, but he still owned his shares / business interest.
This is being blacklisted AND facing massive financial repercussions for not being politically correct.
The whole episode is disturbing. Not so much for what was said, but for the reaction to it.
I guarantee that if I privately recorded every man in the country (like I was the NSA), I would find that everyone says the most outrageous things at times. Whether it be something completely sexist towards women, a racist stereotype, or some other “hate speech,” people say crazy stuff constantly. Liberals say Sarah Palin’s daughter should be raped. They don’t get banned from TV for life.
This punishment is over the top. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. “Tolerant” liberals have forgotten that basic lesson.
What he said is reprehensible, but the only way to stop the Orwellian insanity is to start forcing the same on liberals. Next time they are caught saying something offensive to the moral majority, we must make them pay in return. Then they whine about free speech to the point where they realize they shouldn’t try to regulate the thoughts of others.
Or, at least, here’s hoping...
Yes, I know that a judge MAY fix things. He CAN fix things. But he CAN and MAY also FAIL to fix things. Our legal system has NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING to do with law. Roe v. Wade? How about 1 trillion unconstitutional gun laws and rulings on every jurisdictional level in this country? Fed judges overturning gay marriage laws, voter ID laws, and a trillion other legally passed laws?
What does an agreement between 2 private parties have to do with the Consitution. Sterling agreed to the rules to be an NBA owner and has to abide by the consequences in his franchise agreement.
What’s the incentive to pay the fine?
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Not sure of the details but if he sells the team then that sale would have
to be approved by the NBA. Thus pay the fine to get your millions.
Private organization bylaws must pass the anti-trust (if they are a monopoly and adjudged to be one) sniff test.
For instance, Standard oil could not have "bylaws" for the private truck drivers that they could neither pick up, nor deliver petroleum products to another entity in the petroleum supply chain. And, in fact, that's what broke up Standard oil.
And if he doesn’t abide by the franchise agreement... the NBA’s recourse is to take him to court. That can take years to work itself out. In the mean time... go to the game. Hire and fire whoever you want... and go on with life as usual.... until a governmental agency restricts you.
How about going after every rapper who made money after making a song calling for attacks on whites, get whitie?
Or profiling the attackers in the knock out game, except for that one middle aged white guy the DOJ went after in a knock out game assault? Thousands of documented assaults, with a number of deaths, of blacks targeting whites with a blow to the head ... not a peep.
One old white guy who employs lots of black players and pays them decently expresses a mildly racist opinion to his black mistress - that’s the scandal.
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