Jazz reaction to the Sterling ban.

[9erute]

He's had lawsuits against him for discrimination for his housing complexes, a lawsuit alleging discrimination by Elgin Baylor (ex-GM), etc.

What I don't get is why the NAACP would ever give him a lifetime reward when he has obvious red flags even before this.

Those NAACP awards are hard to get. They don't just give those bad boys away. Obviously he earned it fair and square.

 

[Bill]

Those NAACP awards are hard to get. They don't just give those bad boys away. Obviously he earned it fair and square.

Isn't it his 2nd lifetime achievement award? Fair and square is right!!

 

[Stifle Tower]

He's had lawsuits against him for discrimination for his housing complexes, a lawsuit alleging discrimination by Elgin Baylor (ex-GM), etc.

What I don't get is why the NAACP would ever give him a lifetime reward when he has obvious red flags even before this.

He's likely a big donor.

What's hilarious is Sterling took out an ad in the LA Times for Sunday stating that UCLA was thanking him for donating money for cancer research. UCLA has sent back the money and stated they had NOTHING to do with the ad and certainly never promised to have a laboratory named after him. And those head shots of Donald and the Mrs...they were probably taken 25 years ago!

 

[DutchJazzer]

Well said. Employees are fired for offensive tweets or Facebook posts. What's "private" is not usually not so private when you think about it. I'll bet anyone who is married has a ton of their business - good and bad - known by the wife's BFF (or husband's best friend). Private sex tapes are leaked by ex-lovers all the time. It certainly isn't unprecedented. Don't we all recall the ranting of Mel Gibson a few years back? I don't feel sorry for Mr. Sterling. He confided in a high-end call girl. Did he expect this to be kept secret, especially when his wife is suing the $%#^!?

The NBA is a corporation. They have the right to protect their brand. Letting Sterling continue to own the team, even if suspended from visible involvement hurts the brand. He'll make hundreds of millions on the sale.

facebook and twitter AINT PRIVATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


whatever room sterling was in when he got secretly taped IS private.

so stopped reading after yous said "What's "private" is not usually not so private when you think about it."


fb and tiwtter is NOT PRIVATE

rooms in your HOMES ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DutchJazzer]

I see your point and you are wrong.
freedom of speech does not protect hate speech, racist remarks, defamatory declarations, libelious utterances and plain malevolent curses.

edit: child pornography comes to mind as well. If someone said CP is good and should be fostered, I would break his jaw.

wtf child pronogrpahy is the stupidest thing ever.

because child pornogrpahy probably HURTS the child in question.

but hypotethically a guy telling a fellow another guy a "erotic" sotry involving a child and adlut. is allowed. cus NOBODY gets hurt in that

 

[DutchJazzer]

yeah that is true. Kobe allegedly raped a girl got way less. People in nfl have killed people and have gotten way less. That alone shows how far out of wack this has become

political correctness sucks.

people are so sensitve these days!

 

[olden_undercover]

facebook and twitter AINT PRIVATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


whatever room sterling was in when he got secretly taped IS private.

so stopped reading after yous said "What's "private" is not usually not so private when you think about it."


fb and tiwtter is NOT PRIVATE

rooms in your HOMES ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually...

https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/us/nba-sterling-legality/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

"Was it legal to record the conversation?

It depends what state you are in during the conversation. Most states require that only one person have knowledge that a conversation is being recorded for it to be legal.

But some states, like California, are "two-party consent" states where all of those involved in the conversation have to know they are being recorded for it to be legal. So depending on the location of the recording, if Sterling didn't know he was being recorded, the audio might very well have been obtained illegally.

Stiviano's lawyer, however, told the Los Angeles Times that Sterling knew he was being recorded.

The lawyer, Mac Nehoray, declined to tell the Times why Stiviano recorded the conversation, but said it was "by mutual agreement," he told the Times."


And 9erute, you may be interested in this section of the same article:

"Was this a First Amendment violation?

Have Sterling's First Amendment rights been violated? No, [Joel Kurtzberg, a New York attorney with expertise in First Amendment and media law] said.

No one is questioning that Sterling has the right to speak as he pleases, but the public and the NBA are also free to condemn what he says, Kurtzberg said.

Marc J. Randazza, a Las Vegas-based First Amendment attorney, wrote in an op-ed for CNN that the NBA is private club and can punish Sterling as it sees fit."


And that's one to grow on.

 

[Tarkanian]

The real issue everyone has failed to mention...... he was committing adultery. We should cut his dick off. Who knows maybe there is some fine print in his wedding vows so let's forget the 8th ammendment and just cut it off

this is so middle eastern.
proud of ya!

 

[framer]

The "NBA is private club and can punish Sterling as it sees fit." Well that is not entirely true. They can punish Sterling according to the rules they have on the books. They just can't make up stuff on the fly. Mr. Randazza may be a first amendment attorney, but he certainly isn't familiar with what is in the secret NBA owners contract, and the fact that the NBA isn't releasing the part that allows them to do what they just did tells me that they are on shaky legal ground. I'm actually relishing a legal battle between Silver and Sterling where I can just sit back and cheer for injuries. . .

 

[enchilada_style]

Jesus. This thread went down the ****ter quickly.

 

[cowhide]

political correctness sucks.

people are so sensitve these days!

Yea the good old days when you could say racist, sexist things and just laugh them away. Actually people are just tired of mean rude people.

 

[olden_undercover]

The "NBA is private club and can punish Sterling as it sees fit." Well that is not entirely true. They can punish Sterling according to the rules they have on the books. They just can't make up stuff on the fly. Mr. Randazza may be a first amendment attorney, but he certainly isn't familiar with what is in the secret NBA owners contract, and the fact that the NBA isn't releasing the part that allows them to do what they just did tells me that they are on shaky legal ground. I'm actually relishing a legal battle between Silver and Sterling where I can just sit back and cheer for injuries. . .

I don't know about that, man. I sincerely doubt Adam Silver, an attorney himself, would just step up to the podium and spout a bunch of unenforceable crap. I'm with you on Sterling fighting, this, though-- in the likely event he does, it is going to be highly entertaining.

Jesus. This thread went down the ****ter quickly.

Didn't it start off on the edge of the bowl to begin with...?