Discussion for article #222234
We’ll see.
(snicker)
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This guy really isn’t very bright. A sports team isn’t like a pizzeria, where you don’t have to work with the other pizzerias in town if you don’t want to. The league has a big say in who can own a team. If your ownership damages the overall brand, you’re gone. Period.
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Boycott the Clippers,
Go Wiz
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Obviously this is up to the nba board of govs who may yet decide to kneecap Silver and destroy the nba…but your choices are probably going to come down to making $.5-.75b profit on selling a team you paid $15m for. Or else having your franchise pulled for cause and you profit nothing. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out the path you’ll likely take.
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If he is allowed to remain as owner, the Clippers, NBA, and all sports fans as well as Americans, will be sorry. He is a Jim Crow, Slave owner type who will and has disrespected the rights of others to reach for happiness and security. He is a cancer and should be removed.
What if:
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NBA voids all Clipper player contracts allowing them to become free agents.
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NBA takes bids on for a new expansion team in LA.
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NBA 2014-2015 season schedules games with new LA franchise leaving Sterling (and whats left of his Clippers) to play with himself.
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How does this destroy the NBA?
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Donald knew the rules of the NBA when he bought the club. If he wants to pay the salaries of the Los Angeles Clippers players while they sit on the bench and practice, that’s up to him… or rather, he’s contractually obligated to do so. What I want to know is who he thinks they will be playing?
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The players ( at least GS) were more than willing to boycott last night. Without them, there is no NBA. He can’t win.
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Though Sterling has the money to fight a forced sale and it’s not clear the league has the power to make him sell, ultimately he’ll do so because anything else is a dead end. Once people start boycotting Clipper’s games, it’s over. Sterling may be able to spend the rest of his life making a point but it would make more sense to quit digging. Perhaps he could transfer ownership to his family. His son is already running business operations.
I don’t think he has a leg to stand on. My understanding is that the NBA can MAKE him sell. He’ll have to sue and he’ll most likely lose.
Goes to prove that if you’re having an ilicit affair, check for recording devices before you do anything. That’s always been my rule.
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If sterling does not sell the team then the owners should vote to amend the contract with the players union allowing the current players to opt out of a contract under these conditions. then the clippers’ current roster should all opt out and leave sterling holding a shytepile
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This guy still thinks there’s a way to salvage something out of this. Like most billionaires, he’s probably not used to losing or taking orders. But also, he’s not stupid when it comes to making money. He has zero choice in selling the franchise at this point. His presence as owner is toxic to the franchise and the value will plummet the longer he holds on. No free agent will ever sign with his team. Advertisers will boycott, as will fans. It’s likely that front office people are already spiffing up their resumes.
Free speech is a great thing. Used wisely, it let’s the world know what you think. Used stupidly, it let’s the world know who you are.
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That’s what this thick-skulled fool doesn’t get: the players make the team, not him and his whims.
To me it’s less the horrendous racism but the blindness to what actually supports his own income: the players, mostly black, but the players nonetheless are what provides him with $$$. And he stubbornly denies this. That’s the insanity endemic to multimillionaires who think like him.
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It’s also likely he is hoping the NBA will force him to sell the team so he can then sue them for damaging the sale price. An asset sold under duress will almost always sell for less than market value. I don’t see him winning this argument, because I bet there will be more than a couple of interested buyers who will bid on the team. Also, how to judge the loss in value for the distressed sale versus the damage he’s already done. Still, rich people will always look to lawyers to fix any and every perceived transgression.
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The NBA board of governors absolutely has the ability to make him sell. They also have the ability to decide who he can sell to. That much is clear. He simply has no more legal standing than a McDonald’s franchisee who loses his franchise.
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Of course he’s speaking with Jim Gray, the colostomy bag that ambushed Pete Rose in 1999 at the ceremony honoring the living greatest players. Two putzes in a pod.
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Next we’ll see militiamen coming from all over the USA to protect the fool and maybe even serve as a palace guard if the tries to attend the next playoff game.
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I am elated with this stance of Sterling (nee Tokowitz). For one thing, it allows Baggers and RWNJ’s to “rise up” and push back, thus alerting heretofore clueless millennials (who still have not fathomed the depth nor the sources of the vilification and obstruction Barack Obama’s election has brought forth) that, yes, we are in a period of reactionary racism. What is reactionary racism? It is a reaction to the gains and changes brought forth in the mid 20th Century, changes most of us were comfortable with. FOX (along with Talk Radio) cleverly realized that there was a market in appealing to reactionary racists.
For the other, Sterling (Tokowitz) may bring forth emotions from NBA players they lately have not been accustomed to feeling since their childhoods (when, before NBA fame, most willy nilly knew and saw some serious racism). Even the “post-racial” Michael Jordan, growing up in Wilmington NC, could write a book on what he saw.
It’s one thing to walk into an arena from the team bus decked out and headphoned, imagining the adulations of groupies, teens and sports fans. It’s another to be more intimately acquainted with the 40+% of America which has little adulation for minorities and which lumps them as the same types of people Mr. Bundy commented on a couple of weeks ago. Mr. Tokowitz seems to be willing to serve as that lightning rod.
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