Discussion: Donald Sterling: I'm Not Selling The Clippers

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I don’t think transferring to another Sterling is gonna fly. Like JimEllis says up-thread, there are all kinds of interesting things the NBA can do - He may own the Clippers, but he doesn’t own the players, or make the schedules, and how much longer until he loses ALL sponsors? Tomorrow?
Everyday he stonewalls is money down the drain.

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Were I a player on the Clippers I’d be frantically looking for a way out of my contract and selling my services elsewhere.

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I heard an NBA legal guy on the radio this morning. The agreement which Sterling (and all the owners) signed with the NBA provides for arbitration of any disputes. There’s no court, and no judicial review. The NBA constitution, which the agreement incorporates, provides the standard “detrimental to the interest of the NBA” clause, under which the owners can take any action against one of their own who has acted in this manner. The team will be sold if that’s what the league wants, and Sterling will have to whine over his $800 million profit from the sale.

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As Laker fans know, the NBA can pretty much void any player contract they want to, they could just declare them all free agents.

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But, he is in the market for an economical 24/7 deaf, dumb and blind bimbo…

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Wouldn’t it be interesting if the players left en mass?

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If three-fourths of the owners agree he must sell, he must, according to the rules. I guess he’ll try to fight this in court to avoid the big capital gains tax. But if he does, it will definitely become a law of diminishing returns for him, as the value of the club without cooperating players plunges precipitously.

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Agreed. AS they say, Sterling is in a shallow running stream of excrement aboard a native American watercraft with absolutely no means of propulsion.

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Hey - they wouldn’t even have to go very far, just switch locker rooms at Staples Center. The Lakers need pretty much a whole team anyway.

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That is priceless!!!

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Somewhat OT, but quite a hoot:

“One day, I will become president of the United States of America and I will change the legislation and laws”

That’s V. Stiviano, who has obviously spent entirely too much time with Herr Sterling.

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I look forward to seeing how he puts a team without any players on the court.

Now THAT would be Magic.

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““One day, I will become president of the United States of America and I will change the legislation and laws,” Stiviano said in one of several odd encounters with media camped outside her home.”

Well, with an understanding of our system like that, how can she lose?

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Sounds like something a home schooled 12 year old might say, eh?

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They shouldn’t force him to sell. They should revoke the franchise so he is the owner of an independent, unaffiliated professional basketball team, with no TV deal, no marketable opponents, and millions in salary obligations. To think that he is looking at hundreds of millions in profit as a reward for his abysmal ownership tenure is ridiculous. (As for how that would affect the current Clippers, I’m sure they NBA could find a way to make them whole.)

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Kind of like the Washington Generals - except they at least get to play one team.

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But after they set up checkpoints to keep out “undesirables”, who will play?

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Lifetime ban? Big deal! So, what is this for this old coot? A two-year ban? Three?

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Anybody see a Teanderthalic resemblance between Sterling and the dinglePerry?

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When they pry the team out of his cold dead hand.

Or something like that.