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NBA Suspends Clippers’ Owner Donald Sterling For Life, Imposes $2.5 Million Fine
CBS LA ^ | April 29, 2014 | Unattributed

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: blacklisted; california; clippers; corporateliberalism; donaldsterling; donsterling; illegalrecorded; losangeles; losangelesclippers; naacp; nba; politicalpurge; purge; rochellesterling; sterlingsilver; vanessastiviano; wontbattlelostthewar
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To: Mariner
Until they fine a Negro for using the "N' word a fine of $2.5 million, no one's going to take this seriously!
61 posted on 04/29/2014 12:06:32 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Mariner

I wonder if the NBA has the ability to seize the franchise from Sterling without compensation in its rules somewhere.


62 posted on 04/29/2014 12:06:42 PM PDT by Loyalist (Now available in organic fair trade gluten-free probiotic industrial strength!)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

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”.


63 posted on 04/29/2014 12:06:59 PM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Mariner

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!


64 posted on 04/29/2014 12:07:09 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Mariner

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...


65 posted on 04/29/2014 12:07:10 PM PDT by hockeyfan44 (No more RINOS!!!)
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To: Doctor 2Brains
You forget that lawsuits have NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH LAW, but are only about winning a jury over. ANYTHING is possible with a jury.

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.

66 posted on 04/29/2014 12:07:43 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: DaveA37
The First Amendment was and is to my knowledge, still in effect.

The First Amendment has nothing to do with this. Nothing at all.

67 posted on 04/29/2014 12:08:23 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


68 posted on 04/29/2014 12:08:54 PM PDT by NOVACPA
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I wonder if this Sterling is a big DemocRat donor.

He has been small donor to Democratic candidates. He contributed to Gray Davis, Bill Bradley and Patrick Leahey.

69 posted on 04/29/2014 12:09:01 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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


70 posted on 04/29/2014 12:09:10 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Mariner

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?!


71 posted on 04/29/2014 12:09:41 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: markman46
rumor is Magic wants to buy the team at a fire sale price

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.

72 posted on 04/29/2014 12:09:58 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: Irenic
Biden: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” (Watch Biden’s comments and Obama’s reaction Video)

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...

73 posted on 04/29/2014 12:10:08 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
The merits. There is a binding contract (the NBA constitution/by-laws), and the league acted within the scope of its authority under that contract.

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.

74 posted on 04/29/2014 12:10:09 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Agree.
The decision should have been more deliberative. They aren’t even sure of the validity or legality of their evidence.


75 posted on 04/29/2014 12:10:15 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: NormsRevenge

Sterling should have talked for an hour on that tape about Benghazi, no one would saying a peep about it


76 posted on 04/29/2014 12:10:42 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Mariner
And become even more reviled? I remember vividly that story from ESPN the Magazine (June 1, 2009 issue--I still have that issue) and it detailed the shocking level of virulent racism and misogyny practiced by one Donald L. Sterling.

In short, Sterling brought this on all by himself.

77 posted on 04/29/2014 12:11:07 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

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?


78 posted on 04/29/2014 12:11:30 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
"The merits. There is a binding contract (the NBA constitution/by-laws), and the league acted within the scope of its authority under that contract."

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.

79 posted on 04/29/2014 12:11:54 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

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.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/376641/racist-clippers-owner-donald-sterling-has-only-contributed-democrats-tim-cavanaugh


80 posted on 04/29/2014 12:12:21 PM PDT by kcvl
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