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Silver's leadership exam only beginning (NBA commissioner Adam Silver)
AP via Yahoo ^ | April 29, 2014 | Jim Litke

Posted on 04/29/2014 4:55:09 PM PDT by EveningStar

Donald Sterling won't go quietly. Never has before. So even as praise rolls in for NBA commissioner Adam Silver's forceful decision, the first real test of his leadership may just be beginning...

No owners said publicly they wouldn't support the decision, even Mavericks owner Mark Cuban who said Tuesday he agrees with the commissioner 100 percent.

A day earlier, however, Cuban — while criticizing Sterling's comments as "obviously bigoted, obviously racist" — called it "damn scary" that a precedent could be set.

"Regardless of your background, regardless of the history they have, if we're taking something somebody said in their home and we're trying to turn it into something that leads to you being forced to divest property in any way, shape or form, that's not the United States of America," Cuban said. "I don't want to be part of that." ...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: adamsilver; donaldsterling; losangelesclippers; nba
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To: EveningStar

A silly,stupid,(perhaps even lonely, but really a jerk,)old fool. Was being serviced by a young female gold digger who was in turn being was being serviced by much youger black bucks at his expence which she paraded in front of him. Just to piss him off. Somehow after speaking with her lawyer sets up a situation where the dotting dupe seeing what little loyalty to him he expected from her being destroyed. Vents his frustration over a taped phone conversation that suddenly gets made public.


41 posted on 04/30/2014 6:37:01 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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