[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"

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.

[MadIsh32]

You are now going into management vs labor issues.

Sterling is part of “management” and therefore this is not an issue where you end up with management vs labor.

The rest of management is saying “we don’t want you here” which is perfectly legal under the rules Sterling agreed to.

If he didn’t like those rules he didn’t have to sign the agreement