Looking for genuine discourse re: Donald Sterling/NBA

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Absolutely not! Guy is free to hold any opinions he chooses. People should respond as such. If any players, regardless of skin color, orientation or nationality, do not want to play for him they should not have to.

The resolution is that he is denounced and pay a fine for tarnishing the NBA brand and then we move on. Perhaps even the loss of NBA draft picks. The public, agents and players should be left up the own devices on how they choose to shun or support Mr. Sterling.

He should be fined and lose multiple picks. This is the very least they should do.

I did not like the Clips players removing their warm up jerseys in protest. I certainly understand it but didn't like it. They are under contract with him to represent his basketball team. As such they need to wear their jerseys. If they felt they could no longer support him they can seek a trade or leave when they are free agents. I would.

What it is with you and clothes? This was a very small sign of protest. It's probably the smallest backlash possible, given the kind of labor they are providing. With a simple gesture they show revulsion at the ownership, but then continue to play for the love of the game and the good of their careers. Seriously, anybody who gets a bee in their bonnet over the warmups is douching it.

 

[JAZZGASM]

Interesting. The article I read said Silver and the owners didn't have the authority. Guess I shouldn't believe everything I read on the internet.

If the owners vote him out, Sterling will sue them. This is going to get ugly (well, uglier). Clippers have 10 players under contract for next season + a first round pick (their 2nd has already been traded). Wonder what happens if no one else agreed to sign with them and they just had 11 players on the roster?

Well, technically they do according to the rules.. There is a bylaw that allows the owners to force another to sell. But it was meant to be used when an owner was not financially viable. If they tried this, Sterling would sue, and there would be a long, ongoing lawsuit.

Did anyone see that Larry Johnson tweeted that blacks should just have their own league? Imagine if Hayward tweeted there should be an all-white league. Love the hypocrisy.

 

[colton]

Again, none of those players are being forced to work for him.

How so? If he selects a player in the draft, doesn't that player have to work for him?

Or are you saying that no one HAS to play in the NBA? Which is true, but kind of beside the point.

 

[colton]

Interesting. The article I read said Silver and the owners didn't have the authority. Guess I shouldn't believe everything I read on the internet.

Or I shouldn't believe everything I hear on the radio...

I guess we'll find out more today.

 

[Stoked]

He should be fined and lose multiple picks. This is the very least they should do.



What it is with you and clothes? This was a very small sign of protest. It's probably the smallest backlash possible, given the kind of labor they are providing. With a simple gesture they show revulsion at the ownership, but then continue to play for the love of the game and the good of their careers. Seriously, anybody who gets a bee in their bonnet over the warmups is douching it.

You would now all about that.

It is the principal not the clothes themselves. So stop trying to deflect. They are paid to play and represent the Clippers. So they should do so. If they feel that they cannot after this, completely understandable (the route I'd probably take), then they need to go work somewhere else. I can name a crap load of teams that would love to snatch up these players.

If they wanted to make a demonstration of protest, which i would be on board with, then they should have done so at some other time. Not at an official Clippers event. Guarantee you that the media would be all over that with big ole smiles at the headlines it would create.

 

[colton]

Absolutely not! Guy is free to hold any opinions he chooses. People should respond as such. If any players, regardless of skin color, orientation or nationality, do not want to play for him they should not have to.

Would you make all of his current players who want to leave free agents, then? And give draft picks the option whether or not to accept his pick?

Personally I feel that forcing/strongly encouraging him to sell the team would be FAR less disruptive to the league than those types of options.

 

[franklin]

And in my opinion it is insane. Guy has every right to be a racist POS if that is what he is. He has done things that are just idiotic and paid the price, like the 2.7 mil(?) settlement mentioned in here. But he has also done a lot of good like giving money to charities and outreach groups, like the NAACP.

Forcing him out of his chosen business because he holds some antiquated, and horribly wrong, ideas is just bad.

I did not like the Clips players removing their warm up jerseys in protest. I certainly understand it but didn't like it. They are under contract with him to represent his basketball team. As such they need to wear their jerseys. If they felt they could no longer support him they can seek a trade or leave when they are free agents. I would.

Yeah let's blame the victims for peacefully protesting. Wearing a jersey the incorrect way, in this situation, is the most scandalous and shameful thing I can think of. Outrageous, actually.

Defending racists is becoming common of you.

 

[franklin]

If the owners vote him out, Sterling will sue them.

That did not make any sense.

If Silver allows all the Clippers players to become free agents and they all walk, they'd have to sign 13 players next season. Can't see any quality players or coaches wanting to play there. Can't see many fans wanting to go watch the **** team they'd put together. If Silver could suspend Sterling long enough to not be able to do diddly, i'm sure that would **** him up even more.

Every single one of them already chose to sign with a known racist. Why should it be any different in the future? Because now they have to publicly fess up to something that has heretofore been ignored by all these newly outraged speech police?

 

[Stoked]

How so? If he selects a player in the draft, doesn't that player have to work for him?

Or are you saying that no one HAS to play in the NBA? Which is true, but kind of beside the point.

Outside of the rookie contract no one is forced to play for anyone team. If you have a desirable skill then there are 29 other NBA teams that will potentially seek your services.

 

[Stoked]

Yeah let's blame the victims for peacefully protesting. Wearing a jersey the incorrect way, in this situation, is the most scandalous and shameful thing I can think of. Outrageous, actually.

Defending racists is becoming common of you.

Posting crap is common of you. I have in no way defended his words or opinions. But that would be honest of you to point that out. You stopped being honest long ago.

 

[colton]

Outside of the rookie contract no one is forced to play for anyone team. If you have a desirable skill then there are 29 other NBA teams that will potentially seek your services.

So you are saying that draft picks and currently signed players SHOULD be forced to work for him, then?

 

[Hantlers]

How so? If he selects a player in the draft, doesn't that player have to work for him?

Or are you saying that no one HAS to play in the NBA? Which is true, but kind of beside the point.

No player is being forced to play for him.

In fact, they're getting paid millions of dollars to play for him, when they most likely already knew what his feelings on minorities were.

Hell, Doc Rivers played for the guy. It's not like his feelings were some big secret…but now that TMZ is reporting it, it's apparently a hell of a lot more important than when the DOJ was investigating him.

 

[Stoked]

So you are saying that draft picks and currently signed players SHOULD be forced to work for him, then?

Players that willingly signed a contract should be held to the terms they agreed to.

The only potential argument here are players draft by the Clippers that didn't have an option. I have no good answer there. Allow them to be free agents after this season? Is that even possible?

 

[fishonjazz]

I gurantee you that he will be able to fill his roster. Guarantee it. It may not be Chris Paul and Blake Griffin level talent but there are thousands of people that will sign on any dotted line he gives them to play for the Clips. His personal opinions be damned.

i will accept the league minimum if he will put me on his roster

 

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I guess the players didn't represent the Clippers when they wore their game uniforms, shot the ball, scored some points, slapped some butts, all while playing for some mYSteRY tEaM from Los Angeles.

#makinghistory

 

[Stoked]

I guess the players didn't represent the Clippers when they wore their game uniforms, shot the ball, scored some points, slapped some butts, all while playing for some mYSteRY tEaM from Los Angeles.

#makinghistory

Is this where you tell me about your PHD and hotties?

Obviously nothing will come of it as nothing should. They have that right. I didn't like what they did. You want to make some issue of me not liking it.

We done here?

 

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Is this where you tell me about your PHD and hotties?

Obviously nothing will come of it as nothing should. They have that right. I didn't like what they did. You want to make some issue of me not liking it.

We done here?

not yet.

 

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You're a crazy lunatic, and it sucks that you moderate the sentiments on this board. You should step down. You'll be happier; and the board will be a better place.

 

[cowhide]

thats what said half hour ebefore you in other thread.

how is this not an issue.

i admit i have not listened to the tape not one bit. i give the man his privacy.
not a fan of clippers. not a fan of anyboody in that organization(except collins, if he is still there)

but seriously where the **** is this world going.

everybody thinks they have the right to recrod photograph and film everything.
wtf happened to privacy!?!?!?!


i find the reporters who put this out and the people who listen to peoples private convos just as deplorable and without moral as a racist

Yea the loss of privacy is what the real story is. First of all our loss of privacy was gone years ago. Some how the fact that people just ignore the comments as his personal business is really the shocking thing, yea just ignore bigotry and hope it goes away.

 

[Stoked]

You're a crazy lunatic, and it sucks that you moderate the sentiments on this board. You should step down. You'll be happier; and the board will be a better place.

hahahaha.

Have I in any way moderated your sentiment?

As for my happiness. Don't worry about that, I am just fine. Life is great.