Looking for genuine discourse re: Donald Sterling/NBA

[Maktub]

Clipz sold for 2 billion dollars.

Remember when Sterling said he was going to fight it? Remember when Sterling said he had offers for more than 2.5 billion dollars?

Yeah. Sterling is not only a racist but he's also a liar.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...tter-privacy-los-angeles-lawsuit-ban/9646707/

His wife is selling the team without his consent. The family trust has deemed him mentally incapacitated and with that, Sterling is cut out of any decision making role.

 

[JAZZGASM]

Seattle really want their Sonics Back.

I'd rather the league had Sonics than Clippers, tbh.

I really doubt that if Ballmer is allowed to purchase the team the he will move them to Seattle. LA is a much more lucrative market, even with another team there. I am guessing the difference is $ between tv rights between Seattle and LA is huge.

 

[LogGrad98]

I need a vacation after watching that.

Are they related?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5FzCeV0ZFc&feature=kp

 

[DutchJazzer]

NBA's statement regarding the sale of the Clippers

Official release
Posted May 30, 2014 1:15 PM

NEW YORK -- The following statement has been issued by Mike Bass, Executive Vice President, Communications, regarding the proposed sale of the Los Angeles Clippers:

"Commissioner Silver has consistently said the preferred outcome to the Clippers proceeding would be a voluntary sale of the team. Shelly Sterling advised the NBA last night that an agreement had been reached with Steve Ballmer, and the NBA Advisory/Finance Committee met via conference call this morning to discuss these developments. We await the submission of necessary documentation from Mrs. Sterling. In the meantime, the June 3 special meeting of the NBA Board of Governors remains as scheduled."

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[DutchJazzer]

interesting

The NBA has approved former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's $2 billion bid to buy the Los Angeles Clippers, the league said in a statement Friday night.

The sale is subject to approval from the league's owners before it can be finalized.

Tuesday's scheduled NBA Board of Governors meeting has been canceled. Shelly Sterling had pushed to negotiate a sale before the meeting, at which both of the Sterlings' ownership interests could have been terminated.

As part of the sale agreement, Shelly Sterling and the Sterling family trust have agreed not to sue the NBA and to absolve the NBA of litigation by others, including Donald Sterling. There also is language in the agreement that states Ballmer will not move the team from Los Angeles, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.

Shelly's husband, Donald, filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the league earlier Friday.

Donald Sterling's attorney Max Blecher said he needed to review all the new information before proceeding.

"We gotta sit down and see how all of this affects us," Blecher told ESPN.com's Ramona Shelburne. "We have to think through the whole situation.

"(Shelly's) saying if you sue us, we'll have to pay out of our own money. It's like suing themselves. We have to see whether the law allows to happen."

 

[DutchJazzer]

also sterling suing the nba which might hinder the deal

Donald Sterling isn't done fighting yet.

The banned Los Angeles Clippers owner has filed a lawsuit against the NBA seeking $1 billion in damages.

The lawsuit was filed Friday, just hours before the NBA announced that it had approved Shelly Sterling and the Sterling family trust's deal for the Clippers with former Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer, who bid $2 billion for the team. That deal now must be approved by the NBA's Board of Governors.

"Mr. Sterling's lawsuit is predictable, but entirely baseless," NBA Executive Vice President and General Counsel Rick Buchanan told ESPN.com's Darren Rovell. "Among other infirmities, there was no 'forced sale' of his team by the NBA -- which means his antitrust and conversion claims are completely invalid. Since it was his wife Shelly Sterling, and not the NBA, that has entered into an agreement to sell the Clippers, Mr. Sterling is complaining about a set of facts that doesn't even exist."


NBA commissioner Adam Silver banned Clippers owner Donald Sterling from the league for life in the wake of Sterling's racist comments. Full coverage »

As part of the sale agreement, Shelly Sterling and the Sterling family trust agreed not to sue the NBA and to absolve the NBA of litigation by others, including Donald Sterling.

Since the agreement was announced after the lawsuit was filed in court, Donald Sterling's attorney Max Blecher said he needed to review all the new information before proceeding.

"We gotta sit down and see how all of this affects us," Blecher told ESPN.com's Ramona Shelburne. "We have to think through the whole situation. ... She's saying if you sue us, we'll have to pay out of our own money. It's like suing themselves. We have to see whether the law allows to happen."

"We have not had a chance to analyze or do any legal research about it," he said. "There's a lot of stuff happening in a very compact period of time. Give us a break."

Blecher had told Shelburne earlier on Friday that the lawsuit addressed the "invasion of (Sterling's) constitutional rights, violation of antitrust laws, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract."

He said the lawsuit "had nothing to do with the sale."

Donald Sterling repeatedly has vowed to fight the NBA's attempts to force him to sell the team. That fight was temporarily derailed this week after sources say he was found by experts to be mentally incapacitated, paving the way for Shelly Sterling to become the sole trustee of the family trust and empowering her to work on an agreement to sell the team to Ballmer.

Earlier in May, two neurologists conducted a number of brain tests on Sterling, 80, at the urging of his family, a source said. Their diagnosis was that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and likely had been for "three to five years."

Sterling's side, as well as his wife's attorneys, had known of the tests' results for some time, the source said. The family trust has rules and guidelines regarding mental incapacitation, which it defined as an inability to conduct normal and regular business affairs.

Earlier Friday, Blecher confirmed in an email to ESPN that evaluations were performed on his client but said the results of the neurologists' examinations were "grossly exaggerated" and that "Mr. Sterling is far from mentally incompetent." In similar comments to CNN, Blecher said it was determined that Sterling had "modest mental impairment" or "a slowing down."

Shelly Sterling and her advisers initially had hoped to sell the team without using her husband's incapacitation as a reason, according to sources. However, when Donald Sterling said in his response to the NBA that he intended to fight the sale of the team, they changed course and signed an agreement to sell, citing the terms of the trust.

The rules of the trust did not require a court hearing first to declare that Donald Sterling is mentally incapacitated. That allowed Shelly Sterling to negotiate directly with Ballmer and the league to sell the team.

 

[DutchJazzer]

stelring most hated man in american.

it is jsut sad that a country as a whole hates on a old guy with alzheimer!.

like seriously arent their people in america who did/do more damage to americuh. who deserve this more?

According to E-Poll Market Research, Donald Sterling is the most hated man in America. Here are the others who joined him on that list.
Rank Name Percent
-- E-Poll Market Research
1 Donald Sterling 92
2 Bernie Madoff 90
T3 O.J. Simpson 88
T3 Conrad Murray 88
5 Justin Bieber 86
6 Phil Spector 83
7 Aaron Hernandez 81
8 Michael Lohan 76
9 Eliot Spitzer 73
10 Jon Gosselin 71

 

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I really doubt that if Ballmer is allowed to purchase the team the he will move them to Seattle. LA is a much more lucrative market, even with another team there. I am guessing the difference is $ between tv rights between Seattle and LA is huge.

Right but having him in the league probably will do a lot for Seattles cause. Also you wonder with a guy that rich just how much of his calculation is financial and how much is legacy/desire. You wouldn't have thought anyone in their right mind would move from Seattle to OKC.

 

[DutchJazzer]

it is interesting.
shelly made a deal with the nba that if donald sterling sues the nba. she will pay the for the nba.

 

[DutchJazzer]

Report: Dementia kept Sterling out of Clippers sale


Posted May 30, 2014 7:31 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A person close to the Sterling family says Donald Sterling was stripped of his ability to act as a trustee of the family's fortunes, including the Los Angeles Clippers, after two neurologists determined he was suffering from dementia.

The individual, who is familiar with the trust and the medical evaluations but wasn't authorized to speak publicly, says Sterling was deemed "mentally incapacitated."

Shelly Sterling said in a statement Thursday that she agreed to sell the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer "under her authority as the sole trustee of The Sterling Family Trust, which owns the Clippers."

Donald Sterling's attorneys contend that as a co-owner he must give his consent for the deal to go through. They say he won't be giving it.

His attorney, Bobby Samini, says "the assertion that Donald Sterling lacks mental capacity is absurd."

nice to know the world crucified or burned him at the stake.
1st. he got crucified for his private conversation in the privacy of his own domicile.
2nd. he got crucified for those words, while his deeds far outweigh those words.(so we live in a words where actions are less important then words?)
3rd those words where (presumably) made under the effects of dementia, hence he could not be made fully responsible for those words. I am not an expert on dementia but for all we know he could have thought it was the 1940's.


it is just sickening that we as a society judged and crucified in in the court of public opinion without knowing all the facts. judging him on a few minutes of words, instead of years of deeds.


so now i see all those people on their high horses are gone now. because it is not a hype, or trend anymore. moved onto the next big thing.
or they realized that the high horse they where sitting on is actually not a horse but a chair made of stinking horse manure.

 

[fishonjazz]

nice to know the world crucified or burned him at the stake.
1st. he got crucified for his private conversation in the privacy of his own domicile.
2nd. he got crucified for those words, while his deeds far outweigh those words.(so we live in a words where actions are less important then words?)
3rd those words where (presumably) made under the effects of dementia, hence he could not be made fully responsible for those words. I am not an expert on dementia but for all we know he could have thought it was the 1940's.


it is just sickening that we as a society judged and crucified in in the court of public opinion without knowing all the facts. judging him on a few minutes of words, instead of years of deeds.


so now i see all those people on their high horses are gone now. because it is not a hype, or trend anymore. moved onto the next big thing.
or they realized that the high horse they where sitting on is actually not a horse but a chair made of stinking horse manure.

Poor sterling

 

[DutchJazzer]

Poor sterling

this is not about sterling. wether he got a billion dollars or 2 billion dollars.

this is about society. so it is ok to rag on sterling cus he is a nillionaire?


capital aside, what is done to this man is WRONG!
judging him before knowing all the facts.
judging him on words saiod in his supposed demented states. instead of years of awards and deeds for minorities.

bra-****ing-vo society.


next time you go on a high horse, make sure it is actually a horse. and not a pile of *********