That amendment says nothing about taking private property for private use. Also, with just compensation, you can take it for public use. So you can force someone to sell. But this amendment is about governmental power; the ownership of sports teams is subject to contracts with the league; the league is not a governmental body.
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Your first statement is blatantly wrong. And no one said he wouldnāt be compensated.
He can keep his ownership; team just canāt be in the NBA. Iād call Oprah quick.
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Love, love LOVE that bottom of the sea analogy!!
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Iām sort of glad nobody rallied around the girlfriend like TP moths to the Bundy flame. Because she seems to be something of a grifter.
In theory and reality this should be true in the US, after all isnāt that kind of what the free market is all about.
He appears to be a very perverted and amoral person, and should just drop out of sight, but really would we want to start that kind of precedent in this country? There are lots of ways to punish him without water boarding or compelling him to sell his team. āHis teamā that should be what is outlawed, these are men who play a game, not a set of toys.
la la la la, la la la la, master sterlings world,
la la la la, la la la la, master sterlings world,
Sterling loves his plantation and his slaves too,
Thats master sterlings world.
Boycott the clippers,
Go Wizards,
Right, except youāre wrong.
I notice that the comments here run a bit against Sterling. I wonder if he reads muchā¦
LOL, Iād bet that most of the pro sports stadiums built in the last 20 years involved forced sale of land to create a parcel for the stadium.
Letās just call this a moral bankruptcy sale, Sterling, so you can grasp whatās going on.
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God save me from media and ālong time friendā(s).
And nobody forced this old bigot to sign the NBA contract/constitution allowing for exactly that action - he signed it knowingly and one of itās tenets includes the ability to force a sale!
If you didnāt like it you shouldnāt have signed it - but you did and now you should be forced to comply with it!
BTW - never heard a racist admit they were racist! they all cling to the but Iām not defense!
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she is a grifter - so is he!
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Keep the team Don and Shelly so we can see if the NBA keeps you when fans boycott your teamās game, no NBA team will play against your team and you are stuck with a multi-million dollar asset that is plummeting in value every day you own it. No sponsors, no games, no players. Hmmmmmm guess all you have is that piece of paper saying you own an NBA franchise. That and couple of bucks will buy you a coffee somewhere.
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His brain is like raw chicken left out on the counter for 6 hours - worthless & toxic.
- if the Clipper are thrown out of the league, maybe he could schedule them to play ā¦ the Globetrotters ā¦ uh maybe notā¦
Forget about this being a basketball franchise. If youāre running a fast food operation, and you act incontravention to your franchise agreement, you can lose the franchise. If you have a McDonaldās franchise thatās filthy, and if cleanliness is part of the franchise agreement, you can be forced out for violating that agreement.
The NBA teams are franchises. Their āconstitutionā is a franchise agreement. Itās legally enforceable. Assuming, that is, Silver can get 3/4ths of the other owners to go along.
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That is what I thought also. It is a franchise. Itās not like he owns a small business like a hardware store or a flower shop or book store or something. This isnāt property it is a franchise. Totally different ballgame.
Thatās because all of his acquaintances love and trust him. After all, heās an East LA kid, so he canāt be bad.
But Sterling was not the victim in those transactions.