Posted on 09/08/2014 12:59:09 AM PDT by 867V309
Atlanta Hawks co-owner Bruce Levenson said Sunday he is selling his controlling interest in the team, thanks in part to an inflammatory email he wrote two years ago.
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Levenson is very clever. This is just a ploy to get max profit off the sale. Google “yiddishe kopf” to understand why.
Agreed.
There's a tipping point beyond which you know longer have diversity. I cannot imagine how anyone can even remotely think that what he said is racist.
I'm wondering how many basketball owners are going to want out. They're mostly billionaires and their NBA teams are their very expensive toys. Why should they risk being labeled "racist" and end up destroying their reputations and impacting their fortunes?
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