Looking for genuine discourse re: Donald Sterling/NBA

[VINYLONE]

You're incredibly ignorant if you believe this.

What do you believe? I believe most people in the aggregate are good. I'm guessing you believe otherwise.


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[Stoked]

Zach Lowe: League sources say Silver/league, not Sterling, would control Clips sales process in event Silver gets the required 3/4 vote to force it. Twitter @ZachLowe

Adrian Wojnarowski: On ownership super majority needed to vote Sterling out, one Board of Governor tells Yahoo: "Adam has the votes - all of them, I believe." Twitter @WojYahooNBA

Ray Richardson: NBA commissioner Adam Silver fined Donald Sterling $2.5 million, which will be donated to orgs. dedicated to anti-discrimination efforts. Twitter

Michael Scotto: Adam Silver says the NBA is NOT considering allowing any Los Angeles Clippers players under contract to become free agents after the season. Twitter @MikeAScotto

Statements by the Jazz, Lakers, Celtics, Warriors, Mavs, Pistons, Pacers, Raptors, Hawks, Sixers, Rockets (called for a sword to be stabbed into Sterlings heart), Nets and Suns supporting Silver.

 

[moevillini]

I chimed in back on page 6.

As for Sterling, his racism is old news and I have no sympathy for him. At the same time, I'm not fond of using a recording by a private individual to condemn him, either. A real-life case of Black-and-Gray morality, and I'm not sure who's grayer.

obviously Donald

 

[PearlWatson]

Your first mistake is looking for logic in the mind of a bigot.

I was trying to analyze only this conversation to determine IF he was a racist/bigot. I had no assumption going into it.

Taking only the released conversation he was either jealous or he was sick of getting crap from his peers about what his mixed race mistress was doing.

Apparently there is other behavior to take into account I was unaware of.

 

[DutchJazzer]

Statements by the Jazz, Lakers, Celtics, Warriors, Mavs, Pistons, Pacers, Raptors, Hawks, Sixers, Rockets (called for a sword to be stabbed into Sterlings heart), Nets and Suns supporting Silver.

suns is slowly winning my heart.

they got horny, and now this.

 

[fishonjazz]

suns is slowly winning my heart.

they got horny, and now this.

WTF? I thought your stance on this issue is that donald sterling did nothing wrong and that he was screwed over by being recorded.
Now you are on silvers side? (he is punishing donald sterling big time for saying what he said

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Watch as a Magic Johnson led consortium ends up buying the team. That would be funny. Totally screwed up, but funny.

 

[Stoked]

Watch as a Magic Johnson led consortium ends up buying the team. That would be funny. Totally screwed up, but funny.

Watch them get bought and moved to Seattle, St. Louis, Vegas...

SO much for the limelight Griffin and Paul.

 

[Hantlers]

It's making me post more, in various ways.

And, **** you.

You're such a sad little man, Naos.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

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.

Isn't that Stoked's moto "Douching it"?

 

[DutchJazzer]

https://www.nba.com/clippers

been updated

 

[moevillini]

so both teams have their recording scandals!

where is Rosemary Woods when they need her?

https://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2014/04/29/morning-shootaround-april-29/#warriors

No. 3: Report: Ex-Warriors assistant taped conversations – The Golden State Warriors’ coaching staff under Mark Jackson has seen its share of changes since the season began. On March 25, assistant coach Brian Scalabrine was demoted to the NBA D-League because of what was called a “difference in philosophies” with Jackson. On April 5, Warriors assistant coach Darren Erman was fired for, as GM Bob Myers put it, a “violation of company policy.” Chris Broussard of ESPN.com reports that Erman’s firing may have had to specifically do with him secretly taping conversations between the coaching staff:

Sources said Erman, who was coach Mark Jackson’s second assistant, would record coaches’ meetings, meetings between the coaches and players, and informal discussions among coaches that took place in the team’s coaches room — all without the participants’ knowledge.

“He was taping everything,” one source said. “Taping pregame speeches wouldn’t have been that bad, but he was taping guys just sitting around talking in the coaches’ office.”

Sometimes Erman would be present during the tapings. Other times, he would leave the room and leave his phone behind to record conversations the other coaches were having.

It is unclear what Erman did with the recordings. The sources weren’t sure if he shared them with the club’s owners or front office executives.

“Was he taping it for himself or was he taping it for management? That’s not known,” a source said. “But he had a lot of communication with members of the front office.”

The Warriors’ other coaches began noticing a change in Erman’s demeanor and behavior in March, a source said. A few weeks later, they discovered that he was recording them. After being caught, Erman told the club he had been recording the conversations for three weeks. Jackson kept Erman on his staff for another week before Warriors’ management fired him.