owner of clippers banned from NBA forever!

great news just in. I agree with this decision 100%!

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&a....65397613,d.cWc

total and utter PC bullshit, but they had to do it.

I am glad they did it. Sterling is a POS.

 

NBA would have had a mutiny on their hands if they didn't.

 

 

total and utter PC bullshit, but they had to do it.

I think the important thing to remember through all of this is F.U.C.K Al Sharpton. Piece of human garbage

 

I am glad they did it. Sterling is a POS.

 

NBA would have had a mutiny on their hands if they didn't.

 

http://deadspin.com/in-10-minutes-espns-bo...-ste-1569195989

 

Sterling is a total POS. If he had said don't bring that white guy around we wouldn't be having this conversation. That cunt totally baited him, and all he told her was quit being such a whore and posting shit for all the world to see I'm tired of hearing about it. If you're posting some bitch up so that you have some arm candy, the last thing you want is your boys at the card game clowning on you cause she's bring her donkey dicked boy toy TO YOUR HOUSE..

So this is her fault, Modo? lol

NBAPA will surely decertify Roc Nation for Jay Z being a Five Percenter, I know this.

this is one thing that always blows me away,

 

why the #uck do people expect anything more than a bit of entertainment out of sport. so he made some racist remarks (for the record i dont condone that), why should that impact on him having an NBA team. just like people complain when a 22 year old sport star gets drunk smashes his car into a light pole, and beats his Maxim Model girlfriend in the face with a broken bottle. the behaviour is terrible no doubt and anything criminal should be dealt with legally, but it has nothing to do with them providing entertainment by jumping around or throwing a ball. if something is a criminal offence, let the law take care of it and the cards fall where they do, but if they meet their obligations at work why should they be penalised at work? i guess this boils down more to the fact that many mouth breathers see sports people as role models :/ but that's my point, what is wrong with our society when something as lame as sport is considered aspirational.

So this is her fault, Modo? lol

 

so your worth $2 billion and have to hear from your friends "hey Don, how does Magic taste?"

 

I promise you if she was into white guys they would be having the same conversation., but not the same repercussions.

 

He said don't flaunt your black boy toys for the world to see. Am I missing something else that he said? Did he use the N word or something?

Why is getting banned from the NBA for life a bad thing?

So because you're worth a certain amount of money you're more sensitive to your friends busting your balls? He's a racist because his country club buddies are making fun of the fact that his "girlfriend" is taking pictures with famous athletes? I don't get it...

You don't have to say the N word to be racist.

The NBA is at fault too, should done this sooner. It should have investigated when the lawsuits were filed in 2003 for housing discrimination. Sterling owns a lot of rental properties, generally in poorer parts of town. He paid almost $3 million in fines.

 

Racist comments are one thing, denying people housing based on their race is a whole other level.

 

The NBA has several owners with dubious backgrounds. Pretty hypocritical, but better late than ever.

 

 

http://www.nj.com/ledger-dalessandro/index...often_ugly.html

 

Adam Silver has a parade of laudable business partners that he inherited from his morally ambiguous predecessor, David Stern.

 

The new NBA commissioner has a business partner in Washington who doesn’t know the difference between a tax code and "class warfare," who bribes bloggers, slugs fans, bulldozes the neighboring Chinatown population into Virginia so he can help put up more Hooters, and asserts that we should all be grateful for the privilege of subsidizing his team.

 

He has a business partner in Orlando who is so righteous he has poured millions into anti-gay marriage initiatives, because gays "keep asking for favors" and "special treatment," and marriage is "not vital to them, in my opinion."

 

He has a business partner in Cleveland that made billions in the mortgage business, many of them by passing subprime loans along to the ultimate thieves, Countrywide, which greased the derivative machine that helped destroy the global economy.

 

He has a business partner in Oklahoma City who made his billions through fracking, which has been linked to everything from toxic drinking water to earthquakes to climate change, and then screwed landowners out of their royalties when business went bad.

 

He has a business partner in Brooklyn who is an oligarch, that special kind of patriot who uses political connections to grab billions in state-owned assets for micropennies on the dollar, leaving much of the population to starve in the feudal cesspool left behind.

 

And yes, he has a business partner in Los Angeles who is a slumlord that refused to rent to minorities because they are "not desirable tenants," and because "black tenants smell and attract vermin," and "Mexicans sit around and drink all day," leading to a humongous settlement of a federal housing lawsuit; and who has some scary attitudes toward women, which has led to harassment suits and yet more settlements.

 

We’re not here to put Donald Sterling’s racism on a scale with other social sins practiced by Silver’s business partners, which stretch from here to Seattle.

 

We can only remind you that everyone already knew that Sterling was a despicable human being. If you didn't know it, you simply weren't paying attention, or – like Stern and Silver and everyone else in the NBA – you chose not to care.

 

Racism is an indelible part of what he is. If he issues a thousand mea-culpas today, nothing changes that. He has stood courtside with a what-me-worry visage for decades, because he is part of a lunatic fraternity that always embraced him as a bit eccentric, but always One of Ours.

 

So we find this latest example of Sterling spewing his usual vile nonsense not even remotely interesting, or as anything but redundant. This is Donald Sterling we’re talking about. What TMZ captured on tape is not a smoking gun. It is a longstanding business practice.

 

Yet his remarks have received a ton of attention, because the people who do business with him suddenly cannot overlook the fact that he is a public embarrassment and a risk to their virtuous enterprise.

 

(Pause here for eye roll.)

 

Only two things should vex these Men of Basketball.

 

One: They never denounced Sterling a decade ago, when his odious viewpoints were already a part of the public record — yet the players took his money, his partners shared in his largesse, and the fans subsidized his business.

 

Two: They don’t seem to care that all this evidence of bigotry was obtained via an egregious invasion of Donald the Clown’s privacy, which is a candor test that absolutely none of these Men of Basketball would be able to pass.

 

So, better late than never, we go to the torches and pitchforks. Donald has everyone fired up just by being the despicable human being that he is, so expect Silver to punish him for, essentially, free speech. He has the authority to do that within the framework of the NBA constitution — because, you know, Sterling’s latest behavior isn’t in the best interests of the league.

 

Just let the record show that until Saturday morning, it was just fine.

 

The public response was outrage, and, sure, mostly proportionate. As for the punishment, most of us scratch our heads like LeBron James, the league’s commercial colossus, who says, "There is no room for Donald Sterling in our league."

 

Try to keep up, young fella. Clearly, there’s abundant room for all types in your league.

 

The other primary cash cow, Michael Jordan, was one of the first owners who had the guts to speak up in the first 24 hours. But MJ, not exactly the world’s foremost expert on perspective, concluded his statement with, "In a league where the majority of players are African-American, we cannot and must not tolerate discrimination at any level."

 

It wouldn’t matter if there was one black player, or two. Discrimination is intolerable, period. Unless one of your business partners is Donald Sterling.

is this like the life time bann micheal vick got or plasico

what makes me laugh is the racist remarks made back about sterling and everyone is ok with it.

 

 

kinda hard to be a racist if your gf is black

i think this guy is a complete ass and stupid but i truly believe he does not have a clue what reality is anymore

 

 

Seems like a ridiculous / massively heavy-handed response to me. I am sure we have all said something we regret at one time or another.

Seems like a ridiculous / massively heavy-handed response to me. I am sure we have all said something we regret at one time or another.

 

I'd agree with this. We would all be fucked if everything we said was recorded and made public.

I'd agree with this. We would all be fucked if everything we said was recorded and made public.

 

And she knew this too, she baited him and coaxed him along. For me it's more about his housing discrimination that the NBA chose to ignore than this episode. Glad he is gone.

I'd agree with this. We would all be fucked if everything we said was recorded and made public.

but someone at this level and in the public eye should know better (especially with a pending law suit) IMO

And she knew this too, she baited him and coaxed him along. For me it's more about his housing discrimination that the NBA chose to ignore than this episode. Glad he is gone.

 

The housing discrimination should have a raised a much bigger stink in my book.

kinda hard to be a racist if your gf is black

 

At the risk of sounding like I am being the kind of hypersensitive person that dare not go to high five a rabbi in case they leave me hanging and then it looks a bit awkward but what you said is like saying

"I cannot be racist because I have black friends"

 

The housing discrimination should have a raised a much bigger stink in my book.

 

Totally agree and it's unfortunate the 24 media cycle chooses to largely ignore the more important problem and the NBA's decision to ignore it. Instead Adam Silver is being lauded. Admittedly he wasn't in charge in 2003, still he side stepped the question in the news conference this morning stating Sterling wasn't convicted.....making racist comments isn't a crime either.

I don't like the precedent that a conversation you thought was private is secretly recorded and can now have implications and repercussions like this. What else can we ban people for now? I don't condone anything he said, but if you can lose a business over what you think is a private conversation then we all better keep our mouths shut. Im with Modo on this one.

 

On the other hand, he probably will make close to a billion selling an NBA team and never having to watch that mindless drivel again.

 

Is it even legal to record a conversation like this without the consent of both parties?

So this is her fault, Modo? lol

 

Yes. It was a private conversation. He's a well known racist. He's proven so in the past. This time he didn't publicly say these things. He's been donating money to the NAACP for years.

 

It's all over dramatization and bullshit.

 

 

I don't like the precedent that a conversation you thought was private is secretly recorded and can now have implications and repercussions like this. What else can we ban people for now? I don't condone anything he said, but if you can lose a business over what you think is a private conversation then we all better keep our mouths shut. Im with Modo on this one.

 

On the other hand, he probably will make close to a billion selling an NBA team and never having to watch that mindless drivel again.

 

Is it even legal to record a conversation like this without the consent of both parties?

 

He bought the team for $12million and may sell it for .5-1 billion. He's worth 1.9billion. I'm sure he doesn't really give a fcuk anyway.