OT - Sterling Banned For Life and Receives a $2.5M Fine

[UConniki]

Your logic is significantly lacking. He's a racist because of the many posts he's made on this forum, if you can't see that I don't know what to tell you.

Actually Tampa bill is pretty tame compared to most people down here, I'm guessing he might be from CT originally.

 

[UconnU]

Your logic is significantly lacking. He's a racist because of the many posts he's made on this forum, if you can't see that I don't know what to tell you.

I haven't read them. sorry.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

It actually doesn't make you unique at all, I feel the same way and everyone should, its just that alot of people weren't aware of it before because the media and David Stern's punk ass ignored it.

So at the end of the day we agree but you thought it was helpful to create fallacies of what my position was, which included a thinly veiled accusation of being a racist.

Good job.

 

[JaYnYcE]

Anybody crying over this d!ckhead losing his team needs to do some research on his past dealings and understand how his real life racism affected people's lives. Silver can say that that didn't play a part in this decision, but this lifetime ban was correcting a wrong that Stern didn't have the balls to do back then.

ding ding duckin ding!

 

[sdhusky]

So at the end of the day we agree but you thought it was helpful to create fallacies of what my position was, which included a thinly veiled accusation of being a racist.

Good job.

I like it better when you are suggesting that sportswriters might be pedophiles.

 

[JaYnYcE]

You sound like you might be Sterling's son.

It's Jimmy Serrano's pseudo account.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

I like it better when you are suggesting that sportswriters might be pedophiles.

You're stealing Nelson's jokes? Things are that bad for you?

 

[sdhusky]

You're stealing Nelson's jokes? Things are that bad for you?

relax. we still love you with all your faults. and they are many. but we love you. really.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

It's Jimmy Serrano's pseudo account.

You're a joke. I'm more outraged at Sterling's acts of racism that actually affected people's lives and you guys get all bent when he goes sticks and stones.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

relax. we still love you with all your faults. and they are many. but we love you. really.

LOL. The irony in this post is that while I probably wouldn't win any popularity contests on the BY I'm fairly confident I'd outpoll you by a mile.

 

[aceboon]

So at the end of the day we agree but you thought it was helpful to create fallacies of what my position was, which included a thinly veiled accusation of being a racist.

Good job.

I didn't create any fallacies, I brought up his past history of racial discrimination and you brought up him employing a man who later sued and I'm still not sure why you did. Deflection? Seems like it to me...

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

I didn't create any fallacies, I brought up his past history of racial discrimination and you brought up him employing a man who later sued and I'm still not sure why you did. Deflection? Seems like it to me...

Have a good night.

 

[UofMemphis]

Sounds like Shelly Sterling may take over...

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...-turn-control-clippers-wife-article-1.1772790

 

[SHS72]

Hypocrites all. He's fried and he should be, but his history speaks for itself. Yet LA NAACP was ready to give him their lifetime achievement award! In fact al sharp ton was to speak on his behalf! Now everyone is outraged by his comments. C'mon folks, doesn't anyone have a moral compass here? Not saying previous com mentors are wrong or right, but racism is wrong and we all know that. Unfortunately, there are those among us who play this to their personal advantage and THAT pisses me off!

 

[UofMemphis]

Hypocrites all. He's fried and he should be, but his history speaks for itself. Yet LA NAACP was ready to give him their lifetime achievement award! In fact al sharp ton was to speak on his behalf! Now everyone is outraged by his comments. C'mon folks, doesn't anyone have a moral compass here? Not saying previous com mentors are wrong or right, but racism is wrong and we all know that. Unfortunately, there are those among us who play this to their personal advantage and THAT pisses me off!

Does a few good deeds (whatever the award was for) give you a free pass for other, not so good deeds?

I don't think so...

 

[UconnU]

Wait... so magic is friends with her right? And his group is lining up to buy the team...... see what im getting at? Is it possible?

 

[SubbaBub]

As for the public/private thing. Once something becomes known, it's public and subject to everything that goes with that.

As for the penalty, it's a PR home run and I fear a bit of wishful thinking. It will be difficult to oust someone from a billion dollar enterprise without one heck of a fight. He may sell his team to a family member and could apply for reinstatement in the future. The one thing the NBA has going for it is that I get the impression this guy never had many friends amongst NBA ownership, so they may get enough votes to oust him if their jurisdiction to do so might be a bit shaky. Marge Schott had the same problem, but was eventually forced out. Steinbrenner, while not involved in a racial scandal (sort of), was able to comeback.

Good luck getting the $$$ in any form other than withholding TV disbursements.

 

[gtcam]

This is just mind boggling... the man is a liberal democrat who was donating money to the NAACP employs mostally black people. He was jealous of the much younger better looking black people his GF was hanging out with and made wrong insensitive remarks in private. Imagine the stuff we would hear if we listened to private conversations between black players? There is a huge double standard. How many times has jay-Z made s e xist, homophobic, or racist comments on his tracks?

Couldn't agree with you more on this.
The guy made a comment in private, while he does have a checkered past, I haven't heard boo from the NBA hierarchy, owners or players over the past 35 years. Mark Jackson is telling fans to boycott games yet 7 months ago he was auditioning for the Clippers HC job. Doc Rivers could have looked at this guys past but instead takes the $21M and runs with it.
Look - this is a no win for the NBA or the idiot Sterling. The NBA is full of hypocrites and Sterling is a proven jerk.
Chris Paul talks crap but takes the guy's millions every year.
Larry Johnson says in public (not behind closed doors) that the players should form an all black league. Where is the outrage on that?
Sterling is gone and should be for the trail of idiotic behavior not only for this statement.
Spike Lee has made a living being a racist yet the NBA takes pride in his courtside seats.
From this point forward the league had better pay close attention to what everyone says and be ready to react with the same level of punishment. I can see this opening up law suit heaven.
The guy is gone - good riddance, just play the damn games and get on with it.
The world isn't a perfect place.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Did Magic actually know her, or did she just have her picture taken with him?

 

[UconnU]

How about jim irsay. This guy pops a bunch of pills, drinks, hops in a car and kills somebody and he isnt banned for life??

 

[sledog]

I honestly have no idea if this is sarcasm or not.

Boy are you naive.

I have added a bit more to the original.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Kareem's Time op-ed hit every point squarely on the head.

 

[UconnU]

Did Magic actually know her, or did she just have her picture taken with him?

Thats the million $ question she recorded 100 hours and this mildly racist recording was the best they came up with.... could this be a set up?

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Boy are you naive.

I have added a bit more to the original.

Wow. You were being serious. I read your post. Quite the Pelican Brief, you might really be on to something. Any time you've got Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh in your camp you know you're close to breaking a big story!

Honestly, man. I have no idea what point you were trying to make. That this is a convenient opportunity for the league to get rid of a guy who's been a cancer for years and years? Uh, yes. That there are a long list of potential buyers for any NBA team, let alone one in one of the biggest markets in the world. Yes again. And? What is the conspiracy here?

Are you suggesting that Guggenheim Capital Partners called up this broad to cook up this story to open up an opportunity for them to buy the Clippers? If so, I'd take a breath before you call someone else naive.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Thats the million $ question she recorded 100 hours and this mildly racist recording was the best they came up with.... could this be a set up?

That's the question that absolutely no one with a brain gives a _____ about. Seriously, people. How dumb are you trying to make us look?