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Clippers owner Donald Sterling banned for life by NBA
http://t.foxsports.msn.com/nba/clippers-owner-donald-sterling-banned-for-life-by-nba
NEW YORK -- Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the NBA in response to racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation.
Silver bans Sterling for life, pushes for team sale
Silver bans Sterling for life, pushes for team sale
1 hr ago 1:07 Views: 885 FOX Sports NBA News
Commissioner Adam Silver said he will try to force the controversial owner to sell his franchise. Sterling has also been fined $2.5 million, and Silver made no effort to hide his outrage over the comments.
He said a league investigation found that the league's longest-tenured owner was in fact the person on the audiotapes that were released over the weekend.
"We stand together in condemning Mr. Sterling's views," Silver said. "They simply have no place in the NBA."
http://t.foxsports.msn.com/nba/clippers-owner-donald-sterling-banned-for-life-by-nba
NEW YORK -- Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the NBA in response to racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation.
Silver bans Sterling for life, pushes for team sale
Silver bans Sterling for life, pushes for team sale
1 hr ago 1:07 Views: 885 FOX Sports NBA News
Commissioner Adam Silver said he will try to force the controversial owner to sell his franchise. Sterling has also been fined $2.5 million, and Silver made no effort to hide his outrage over the comments.
He said a league investigation found that the league's longest-tenured owner was in fact the person on the audiotapes that were released over the weekend.
"We stand together in condemning Mr. Sterling's views," Silver said. "They simply have no place in the NBA."
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I think that everyone involved is just a shi- stain on the underpants of life.
Sterling is obviously off his nut.
His mistress tapes him, and "somehow" it gets out. Supposedly she got his OK to record this, because "he forgets what he says". Maybe. I doubt it. I get the sense that he doesn't give a F what he says, and if he had anything important to say, he wouldn't say it to his mistress!
So here she tapes him, in my book, just to F with him. Let's assume that she didn't release it - it doesn't matter. She taped him for a reason. She wanted some ammo. No rich dude is ever going to bother with her. There are plenty of other good looking women willing to schtup an old rich guy. She blew it.
And Sterling's "estranged" wife? She had an easy out on this - she initially made a big stink that "I'm not sure it's him" and "We are estranged". Why waffle? Becuase she knows she's gonna lose money here. She thinks she's got some pull. But she also can't back him. Stupid move. The easy out? Six words, perfect for a twitter post: "There's a reason why we're estranged..."
NBA had no choice. There is no choice here. This guy just blew it.
Gives the race baiters another reason to march and protest. And get more freebies. Those millionaire future inmates got their gold teeth and Ferraris while 70% of the brothers are on welfare. What dey got to beech about?
Our schools don't teach the meaning of irony anymore I guess.
pretty ridiculous really
However, aren't we allowed to be stupid, petty, insensitive, immature, and in general have an opinion contrary to others in a so called "free country"???
Now a guy who tells his girl friend she can fudge however she wants but don't bring him around my place (over simplified but basically it)can't even have that opinion??? What is he supposed to say cheat on me and please do it in front of everyone at my establishment because anything less is just not right???
We have become so reversed racist in this country it is impossible to know what is PC because one group has such limitations on behavior while minorities are unbound.
I may not like this guy but I think he has a right to be a jerk and let us know why we would not want to associate with him.
No, we must make sure people never reveal their personal views so we can all pretend we are something we are not.
Yeah, that's healthy
Wulfmann
"Fools learn from their own mistakes. I learn from the mistakes of others"
Otto von Bismarck
Thought we had a right to free speech in this country.
We hear that quite a bit on Gun Broker, usually from (soon to be) former members who are being tossed out the door by CaptFun. You can own the team and say what you like but you are a part of the NBA franchise and when the boys in New York office don't like what you have to say you are finished. DS has every right to speak his mind and the NBA has every right to pull his franchise if they don't like it.
quote:Originally posted by MG1890
Thought we had a right to free speech in this country.
We hear that quite a bit on Gun Broker, usually from (soon to be) former members who are being tossed out the door by CaptFun. You can own the team and say what you like but you are a part of the NBA franchise and when the boys in New York office don't like what you have to say you are finished. DS has every right to speak his mind and the NBA has every right to pull his franchise if they don't like it.
Exactly, the Constitution constrains Government, not the private market place.
quote:Originally posted by MG1890
Thought we had a right to free speech in this country.
We hear that quite a bit on Gun Broker, usually from (soon to be) former members who are being tossed out the door by CaptFun. You can own the team and say what you like but you are a part of the NBA franchise and when the boys in New York office don't like what you have to say you are finished. DS has every right to speak his mind and the NBA has every right to pull his franchise if they don't like it.
X-ring. Normally, I am all about free speech. However, be aware that when your neighbors don't like what you say, you may not be invited over.
I think it was "nunya" business for the NBA. But, private organizations can institute their own sanctions without government interference.
He is a multi multi millionaire. Does anyone really think he gives a hoot about all this? [:D]
quote:Originally posted by mark christian
quote:Originally posted by MG1890
Thought we had a right to free speech in this country.
We hear that quite a bit on Gun Broker, usually from (soon to be) former members who are being tossed out the door by CaptFun. You can own the team and say what you like but you are a part of the NBA franchise and when the boys in New York office don't like what you have to say you are finished. DS has every right to speak his mind and the NBA has every right to pull his franchise if they don't like it.
X-ring. Normally, I am all about free speech. However, be aware that when your neighbors don't like what you say, you may not be invited over.
Free speech doesn't mean its free from consequences! [;)]
quote:Originally posted by MG1890
Thought we had a right to free speech in this country.
We hear that quite a bit on Gun Broker, usually from (soon to be) former members who are being tossed out the door by CaptFun. You can own the team and say what you like but you are a part of the NBA franchise and when the boys in New York office don't like what you have to say you are finished. DS has every right to speak his mind and the NBA has every right to pull his franchise if they don't like it.
Maybe. I didn't read the contract.
Am I the only one who got a chuckle out of "Sterling" being banned by "Silver"?
Good observation.I missed it.
Maybe they are just friends. Or she is 'on the payroll'.
"Good news for NBA fans. Owner Donald Sterling has agreed to sell his LA Clippers basketball team. The bad news - he's selling them to Nevada Rancher Clive Bundy ...... one at a time."
Nothing? Hello, hello - is this mike on?
I can't imagine why anyone watches in the first place.
+1
capt and the forum is not a good comparison at all, take earl for example, his personal life, past and present was known, he was outspoken and was not banned for years until he really got out of line, capt is not banning members for their personal views inside their homes, unless you bring it openly to the forum
don sterling did this in his own home, was a comment he did not want to invite any blacks to his own dinner party, he obviously has many blacks under his employment {or am I stereotyping basketball players too}, he made this statement in his home not in public not at a stadium , not at a game, and he didn't even use the N word
sorry I think it ridiculous, whats next prison time for thinking about it, but only if your white ? we already witness the double standard of hate crimes
Now, I must couch all this in the fact that apparently he's had some history with this, but frankly, if the former accusations were as shoddy as these, he's likely not the bigot everyone thinks.
Finally, to reiterate... there is NOTHING INHERENTLY WRONG WITH RACISM. When will folks get that?
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
this thread has nothing to do with watching basketball at all, it does pertain to watching our country go down the crapper by the racist machine churning up people of only white color when they make a derogatory remark only against African Americans and no one else
capt and the forum is not a good comparison at all, take earl for example, his personal life, past and present was known, he was outspoken and was not banned for years until he really got out of line, capt is not banning members for their personal views inside their homes, unless you bring it openly to the forum
don sterling did this in his own home, was a comment he did not want to invite any blacks to his own dinner party, he obviously has many blacks under his employment {or am I stereotyping basketball players too}, he made this statement in his home not in public not at a stadium , not at a game, and he didn't even use the N word
sorry I think it ridiculous, whats next prison time for thinking about it, but only if your white ? we already witness the double standard of hate crimes
nailed it.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
this thread has nothing to do with watching basketball at all, it does pertain to watching our country go down the crapper by the racist machine churning up people of only white color when they make a derogatory remark only against African Americans and no one else
capt and the forum is not a good comparison at all, take earl for example, his personal life, past and present was known, he was outspoken and was not banned for years until he really got out of line, capt is not banning members for their personal views inside their homes, unless you bring it openly to the forum
don sterling did this in his own home, was a comment he did not want to invite any blacks to his own dinner party, he obviously has many blacks under his employment {or am I stereotyping basketball players too}, he made this statement in his home not in public not at a stadium , not at a game, and he didn't even use the N word
sorry I think it ridiculous, whats next prison time for thinking about it, but only if your white ? we already witness the double standard of hate crimes
+1 I couldn't have said it that well myself.
I would hope that this would open up a general conversation on racism in general by all races....for example, why was the NAACP going to honor both the white racist Silver with the black racist Sharpton's with the Lifetime Achievement Award soon? They have cancelled Silvers....how about Sharpton's? I notice also that black folks pile on the white racists and don't say a word or lift a finger (ain't cool) to throw the black racists under the bus. Like it or not, the US Constitution and the 1st Amendment give the guy the right to say just about what he wants but I am tired of seeing a host of black folks parade in front of the mic critizing this guy without one word against Rev Wright, Snoop Dog, Jamie Fox.....and tons of other blacks who say racial things against whites. Its time for a complete, all races, conversation rather than this onesided one IMO.
I guess I'm the only non racist on this forum....[:)]
Will the NAACP return the money he has donated to them over the years?
Not unless Billy O'Reilly or Sean Hannity put in a good word for him to the Reverend Al to make it happen.
I just don't give a sh..t.
If you ran a wire on the top 10 black basketball players, for 10 hours each, each one of them would probably be banned imprisoned for life.
I guess I didn't realize it until I read this whole thread, and I mean all of it. Plus I listened to a little bit of the T V news and I finally realized...
I just don't give a sh..t.
Exactly, me niether. Ok, some old rich white guy with a big mouth. I don't care whether they take every dime he has and he ends up in a homeless shelter, or they give him a dozen teams. Just do not care.
This was a private conversation, we shouldn't even been hearing about this, and if I were Mr Sterling, I would sue the pants off of everyone involved!
Like I said, I'm sick of this non sense, and I'm very scared for the direction that we are going!
There will never be racial harmony, as long as the media keeps reporting things like this, we have racial division like we did 50 years ago, instead of moving forward, we are moving backward at an alarming rate!