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Looking for genuine discourse re: Donald Sterling/NBA

b_line said:
The language is about the best interest of the league.

What if those players had refused to go play in game three of the first round? What if the players association pursued decertification and formed their own league? Personally as a fan, I would watch the league with the best basketball, and it would only take a few of the superstars to lead players to a new league, owned by players, with lucrative tv deals, and the nba would be dead in its tracks. Now that would be a ****storm.
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I bet seattle would be interested in such a league.
 
b_line said:
The problem is this has absolutely nothing to do with law. It is the nba bylaws and covenants being talked about here. There is nothing illegal by either side.


To illustrate this, what if you owned a mcdonalds franchise, and you had a reputation for not serving black people? Do you think McDonald's would continue to allow you to own and operate that franchise, even at the possible expense of losing business at all other franchises?

That is exactly why the nba is stripping him if his franchise. In my opinion, sterling is lucky they are forcing a sale, and not just taking the franchise back without monetary compensation (maybe they would have to pay him the original $12.5 mm fee he purchased it for 30 years ago). The nba has every constitutional right to protect their brand. And Donald sterling has zero constitutional right to own an nba franchise. The choice lies with the board of governors, which have already voted to kick the old dirtbag out.
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except sterling served black people. and hired them
 
b_line said:
The language is about the best interest of the league.

What if those players had refused to go play in game three of the first round? What if the players association pursued decertification and formed their own league? Personally as a fan, I would watch the league with the best basketball, and it would only take a few of the superstars to lead players to a new league, owned by players, with lucrative tv deals, and the nba would be dead in its tracks. Now that would be a ****storm.
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they are welcome to try.


face it they dont have the know how, the guts and the balls
 
BENTLEY said:
Yeah, Nickkk is right. I looked up reasons a firm will turn down a case:


Even with strong "sauce" as Nickkkk puts it, I can't see any firm risking their reputation by representing Sterling. I wish people would maneuver their pitchforks toward Stiviano - who is only slightly more lucid than Sterling and who actually broke the law. But going after her would take balls - someone might call you a racist. But she doesn't have anything of value to take from her. Going after a blithering old man nobody likes though - that's brave. And he has something of value - an NBA team a few guys have been trying to buy from him for some time now. He wouldn't sell to them before but now that Stiviano's recorded herself baiting Sterling into saying crazy jealous old man racist crap the opportunity to purchase the team now looks more likely.

The conspiracy theories don't sound that far fetched. Sterling said Magic said he knew the girl. Magic says he doesn't know her. Shrug.
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Noone's going after Stiviano because everyone knows that the real story here is an 80 year old Billionaire being played by a 30 year old something skank. That's the underlying "lesson" if you will here - the skank's gonna do what she's gonna do, Sterling should have been smart enough to avoid this.


If some old fart is horny enough to want to be stroked by someone 50 years his junior, and he got played, nobody's gonna sympathise with him, plain and simple. He basically got what he deserved. Oh and $1b richer in the process.


Boo. ****ing Hoo.
 
BENTLEY said:
Yeah, Nickkk is right. I looked up reasons a firm will turn down a case:


Even with strong "sauce" as Nickkkk puts it, I can't see any firm risking their reputation by representing Sterling. I wish people would maneuver their pitchforks toward Stiviano - who is only slightly more lucid than Sterling and who actually broke the law. But going after her would take balls - someone might call you a racist. But she doesn't have anything of value to take from her. Going after a blithering old man nobody likes though - that's brave. And he has something of value - an NBA team a few guys have been trying to buy from him for some time now. He wouldn't sell to them before but now that Stiviano's recorded herself baiting Sterling into saying crazy jealous old man racist crap the opportunity to purchase the team now looks more likely.

The conspiracy theories don't sound that far fetched. Sterling said Magic said he knew the girl. Magic says he doesn't know her. Shrug.
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Poor sterling.
He will probably only make between 500 million and a billion dollars when he sells his team.... to add to his other millions or billions.

I hope welfare will help him out at least
 
DutchJazzer said:
they are welcome to try.


face it they dont have the know how, the guts and the balls
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That is completely false. There are plenty of people in the nba and nba alums who could be very successful. Even on the jazz, Richard Jefferson has an MBA, and is known to be very intelligent. Look at Stockton and Malone, super rich and successful. Stockton is on his way to becoming a billionaire. When he was inducted into the hall of fame, I read his net worth was over $600 mm.

Pat Riley was a former player, Jerry Sloan was a former player, magic Johnson is a super successful business man. To say that these players could not fugure out how to run a successful league is beyond dishonest and is plain stupid.

Even if they couldn't figure it out, lebron alone could bankroll a league for a year with the money he has made.
 
fishonjazz said:
Poor sterling.
He will probably only make between 500 million and a billion dollars when he sells his team.... to add to his other millions or billions.

I hope welfare will help him out at least
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Sterling will be fine - I'm not worried, nor do I care about him.
 
BENTLEY said:
property rights. Forcing a sale.
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A franchise is not the same as any other property you can own. It is a partnership with a governing body. There is no law saying that he has a right to own an nba franchise. If the nba decides it is not in their best interest to let him own a franchise, then it is their prerogative to remove him from ownership. He is lucky they are allowing him to sell the team. They could probably pursue terminating his franchise. There has been talk of contraction, and aside from this clippers team, they have been terrile enough to warrant contraction.
 
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