LA Clippers owner racist rant at girlfriend

[Wreckem]

Wonder what they are going to try and do next.

Right now he is still making money from the team, even if he is suspended, and if they tried to make him sell the team, he'd end up owning half the NBA from the lawsuit he would win.

How do you pressure a guy that could burn $5 million dollar stacks a day for years without it hardly making a tiny dent in his fortune?

He's not going to go full retard. He's likely to go quietly in the night because well he has no lawsuit if they force him to sell. He agreed to the bylaws of the business when he bought the team.

 

[bradley]

Source: TMZ Sports. lol? Pretty much says it all.

Joseph McCarthy would be very proud of our new Salemerica. Some courageous journalist needs to do more digging into: this woman's past, any accomplices and her motives. I would not be surprising if either the owners or NBA officials previously have conversed with this woman.

Doesn't take a very smart lawyer to realize Sterling has a supremely solid case against the NBA. BTW, a billionaire also has plenty of money to hire private investigators into the closets of others. You'd be ignorant to think this is over, if this old codger has any fight left.

Otherwise, get ready Magic, you are about to pick up a team dirt cheap.

 

[chimaxi83]

Wonder what they are going to try and do next.

Right now he is still making money from the team, even if he is suspended, and if they tried to make him sell the team, he'd end up owning half the NBA from the lawsuit he would win.

How do you pressure a guy that could burn $5 million dollar stacks a day for years without it hardly making a tiny dent in his fortune?

3/4 vote by owners will force a sale of team according to NBA rules. Lawsuit legitimacy not found.

 

[mikegg]

It's official, we now live in Soviet Russia.

It's a private enterprise. The NBA isn't even a public company. They can do whatever the hell they want.

 

[momeNt]

Source: TMZ Sports. lol? Pretty much says it all.

Joseph McCarthy would be very proud of our new Salemerica. Some courageous journalist needs to do more digging into: this woman's past, any accomplices and her motives. I would not be surprising if either the owners or NBA officials previously have conversed with this woman.

Doesn't take a very smart lawyer to realize Sterling has a supremely solid case against the NBA. BTW, a billionaire also has plenty of money to hire private investigators into the closets of others.

Get ready Magic, you are about to pick up a team dirt cheap.

What's his case against the NBA?

There will still be competitive bidding for the purchase of this team. Sterling's racism is not a poison pill for the value of the company.

 

[darkewaffle]

It's not surprising. Pro sports franchise owners operate little fiefdoms with massive tax breaks and essentially zero accountability. Even shit franchises tend to earn staggering profits. The Clippers are a historically profitable/underperforming club (granted, I still think ~80s-90s when it comes to NBA, because that is when the league died. If that has changed, well whatever. I can't imagine they have anywhere near the pull of the Lakers, anyway).

I imagine 100% of owners would echo Cuban's sentiment. Any threat to their sovereignty would set a very bad precedent for them.

Cuban might be an overzealous blowhard but I don't think you give him quite enough credit. He's not a bad guy, just kind of a douchey ok/good guy. I think the most important distinction Cuban made in his remarks was that both the public and the people in the position of power to 'prosecute' (so to speak) need to keep in mind the difference between what a person says and what a person does. Sterling said something crappy - but he also said it in private and, by and large, has run his team fairly (if poorly) in spite of what his personal views actually are.

It's easy to say get rid of Sterling because he has a spotty history and people already didn't like him because he's done a bad job of running the Clippers which has resulted in their consistently poor performance for so long. But those are complementary factors are best - this is happening because Sterling said something he shouldn't have said, but does have the right to say, in private [on a recording that he did not agree to].

Cuban's point is primarily that if this is enough to bring Sterling down, then the precedent is set. If Michael Jordan tells his daughter she shouldn't date white boys or bring them to Bobcat games - then would he lose his ownership? If the Thunder owner (Clayton Bennett) thinks Russell Westbrook's outfits are 'fruity', is he going to be ousted? If Daryl Morey jokes in private that Jeremy Lin turns the ball over because he probably has a hard time seeing his teammates because of his eyes, is Morey fit to be removed?

I would think the answer to all of them would have to be the same as the answer to Sterling - but would it be in practice? Probably not. That's the problem - it's convenient justice but I don't necessarily know or think it's right.

 

[mikegg]

Source: TMZ Sports. lol? Pretty much says it all.

Joseph McCarthy would be very proud of our new Salemerica. Some courageous journalist needs to do more digging into: this woman's past, any accomplices and her motives. I would not be surprising if either the owners or NBA officials previously have conversed with this woman.

Doesn't take a very smart lawyer to realize Sterling has a supremely solid case against the NBA. BTW, a billionaire also has plenty of money to hire private investigators into the closets of others. You'd be ignorant to think this is over, if this old codger has any fight left.

Otherwise, get ready Magic, you are about to pick up a team dirt cheap.

Dirt cheap? Haaha, you must be joking. Reports are surfacing that an auction would surpass $1 billion.

 

[JulesMaximus]

It's official, we now live in Soviet Russia.

You're free to leave anytime sunshine.

 

[momeNt]

sorry double post.

 

[Printer Bandit]

This smells of a conspiracy to force the owner out and sell the team at a lower price.

Who is to gain? Magic Johnson since he's interested to buy the team?

 

[bradley]

What's his case against the NBA?

There will still be competitive bidding for the purchase of this team. Sterling's racism is not a poison pill for the value of the company.

Is this tape admissible in a US court? Perhaps in the Soviet Union its defensible and there aren't any true antitrust laws.

This is how the mafia worked best... use tactics to drive owners out and pick up their businesses for pennies on the dollar.

Not only is this a slippery slope, but a double-edged billion dollar sword.

 

[Printer Bandit]

You're free to leave anytime sunshine.

No, I love this fascist state too much.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

It's official, we now live in Soviet Russia.

I didn't know that the NBA was owned by the government. Hell if anything, the NBA should be your shining beacon of capitalism.

 

[lupi]

Given that Cuban has already discussed how limited the league powers actually are without the supermajority owner votes, this should be interested waiting for the response.

 

[JulesMaximus]

No, I love this fascist state too much.

I blame Obama. How about you comrade?

 

[surfsatwerk]

I blame Obama. How about you comrade?

I miss my MST3K.

 

[Miramonti]

I still find it surreal a current nba owner didn't want his girlfriend to post pictures on the net of her with a black person (even an nba legend like magic johnson) or bring any black people to the game. This is sh!t you'd expect from before the civil rights era. The league will be better without this guy (how much remains to be seen.)

 

[Wreckem]

Given that Cuban has already discussed how limited the league powers actually are without the supermajority owner votes, this should be interested waiting for the response.

They'll get the 3/4 vote. Sterling is a cancer to the NBA and having him retain ownership will allow that cancer to fester and continue to damage the NBA brand and business. Money trumps all and the owners will oust him to protect their money. Sterling will walk away with a cool half billion or more. I say half billion because he wife's going to be walking away with the other half.

 

[darkewaffle]

"I hope that every bigot in this country sees what happened to Mr. Sterling and recognizes that if he can fall, so can you." - Kevin Johnson

In a way, I find that sentiment even more concerning than anything Sterling said.

 

[Wreckem]

I still find it surreal a current nba owner didn't want his girlfriend to post pictures on the net of her with a black person (even an nba legend like magic johnson) or bring any black people to the game. This is sh!t you'd expect from before the civil rights era. The league will be better without this guy (how much remains to be seen.)

Sterling is from the pre civil rights era. There are plenty from his generation that hold the same views. The sooner they die off, the better.

 

[Miramonti]

Sterling is from the pre civil rights era. There are plenty from his generation that hold the same views. The sooner they die off, the better.

Agreed.

 

[Perknose]

"I hope that every bigot in this country sees what happened to Mr. Sterling and recognizes that if he can fall, so can you." - Kevin Johnson

In a way, I find that sentiment even more concerning than anything Sterling said.

Of course you do! Your personal challenge is to look deep within yourself and find out why.

 

[Miramonti]

Now that V. Stiviano won that shootout, she can get back to fvcking the old haggard.

 

[DCal430]

She should be arrested. She commited a felony.

 

[JamesV]

3/4 vote by owners will force a sale of team according to NBA rules. Lawsuit legitimacy not found.

I'm only going by what I heard a sports lawyer mention yesterday. He said that by forcing him to sell, the owner could claim they made him sell the team for far cheaper than it was actually worth, and that he would easily win a lawsuit over it.

I'm not a lawyer, but I think the point was by forcing him to sell, he couldn't sell on his own terms, and might have to take what was offered, instead of finding a fair (to him) price.

Any lawyers here care to elaborate?