Posted on 04/29/2014 11:46:40 AM PDT by Mariner
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced Tuesday Clippers owner Donald Sterling will be suspended for life and fined $2.5 million in response to the racist remarks he allegedly made in a recorded audio clip.
Silver spoke to the press at 11 a.m. news conference from New York, stating he will “do everything in my power” to force the sale of the Clippers.
“The hateful opinions voiced by that man are those of Mr. Sterling. The views expressed by Mr. Sterling are deeply offensive and harmful. That they came from an NBA owner only heightens the damage and my personal outrage,” Silver said. “I am banning Mr. Sterling for life from any association with the Clippers association or the NBA. Mr. Sterling may not attend any NBA games or practices, he may not be present at any Clippers facility, and he may not participate in any business or decisions involving the team.”
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I wonder if the NBA has the ability to seize the franchise from Sterling without compensation in its rules somewhere.
The First Amendment was and is to my knowledge, still in effect. Sue the NBA and everyone of the bastards who are fining and going after this guy. He certainly has enough money to get it done. I would sell the team to China to muddy the NBA’s waters. There has got to be several ways to put the hurt on them so start there.
I wouldn’t walk across the street to watch a professional basketball ‘game”.
How can the NBA ban a team owner from watching his team?
If I was him I would trade the top scoring Clippers player to a league in China!
Boycott the NBA. I read Twitter, all the racist blacks are having a party. Throwing around every hate YT word one can imagine.
Welcome to Obama’s America...
You'd have to get the case to a jury first. Meaning it would have to survive a motion to dismiss, and then a motion for summary judgment.
The First Amendment has nothing to do with this. Nothing at all.
We know the government can now make you buy insurance. Now, we’re going to find out if the government can make you SELL a basketball team.
He has been small donor to Democratic candidates. He contributed to Gray Davis, Bill Bradley and Patrick Leahey.
Yep, typical libs..they are only in favor of something when it benefits THEM..Im surprised the left is so outraged over Sterling, after all Sterling is a giant liberal douche who gave a lot of money to liberal candidates such as Patrick Leahy, I wonder, will Leahy be forced to give back the dough Sterling gave him
Was it the woman who looked like a female impersonator who recorded him? So much for “privacy”. - Saw her on a news report; she was wearing some sort of a riot face shield, or something that was actually an improvement over her natural face (the one that looks like it was smashed in an accident or something - you know, that one.) - Girl?friend? Huh?!
It sure sounds as if they intend to steal the team from him.The NBA became yesterday's game for me when Bird,Parrish,McHale and DJ left the Celtics.I haven't watched an NBA game since.
Reid:“light-skinned” African American who had “no negro dialect..”
thank you! i knew Biden had said something just as stupid... but i did not know that Harry Reid had made those comments! sheesh... bias, double standard... intellectual dishonesty to the hilt...
And those are what CON? It likely is that it would take a majority of NBA owners to vote Sterling out of the league. And I doubt the owners gave the NBA Commish the unilateral power to remove an owner from his NBA team.
Agree.
The decision should have been more deliberative. They aren’t even sure of the validity or legality of their evidence.
Sterling should have talked for an hour on that tape about Benghazi, no one would saying a peep about it
In short, Sterling brought this on all by himself.
Dude, where have you been? I don’t often see the law standing in the way of insanity on hot button legal issues. Do you? Should Trayvon’s case ever have seen a jury? I remember in the 90s reading word for word the Congressional statute laying out the FDA’s jurisdiction. It was food and things intended to help the ill. PERIOD!!!!! PERIOD!!!! Tobacco lawyers argued that FDA therefore had ZERO jurisdiction over cigs. Did it help em?
The Commissioner was asked in the Press Conference what by law or constitution article was breached and the Commissioner declined to answer saying only that he had the OK from the lawyers.
It's likely very vague, at best.
This has lawsuit written all over it.
Racist Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Has Only Contributed to Democrats
Clippers owner Donald Sterling lives in Beverly Hills, has a long history of bigoted behavior in his Los Angeles business dealings, and according to a 2011 RealGM report, was a very occasional Democratic donor in the 1990s:
Donald Sterling, Los Angeles Clippers
Records show Sterling has donated just $6,000, with no activity since the early 1990s. He supported Gray Davis early in his career, as well as Bill Bradley.
At the time TMZ released its recording, Sterling was scheduled to receive a lifetime achievement award from the NAACP.
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