Looking for genuine discourse re: Donald Sterling/NBA

[DutchJazzer]

Really? We do? I haven't heard anyone agreeing with his sentiments.

exactly i dont even know what his sentiments are.

just heard that it si racist
but also hear dpeople have overblown it.

i dont care what he says in the privacy of his own home/office. and friends and families homes. the man deserve to have a private live.
keep that **** private.

wheter its racism. sexual heinousness. aslong as he is not physically and mentally a busing people. he can do what he wants behind close doors.
wheter i agree with his words or not it does not matter.

i give the man his privacy

 

[Deleted member 365]

Really? We do? I haven't heard anyone agreeing with his sentiments.

Hence why I said IF.

I believe he needs to be banned from the league. Yes, it's time to take the bazooka out and blow this guy away. Time for Adam Silver to meet these shockingly offensive and racist words with an equally shocking and powerful punishment. Ban him. Kick him out of the league. Whatever. The NBA and this racist need to part ways.

Between this guy, cliven, and our political climate, it's getting real old these kinds of "slip ups." Racism appears to be alive and well here in the United States.

 

[fgcamel]

Dude was born in the 1930's, tbh it's not even that surprising (for me) to hear someone his age/demographic to say stuff like that, especially in 'private'.

 

[HighlandHomie]

Hence why I said IF.

I believe he needs to be banned from the league. Yes, it's time to take the bazooka out and blow this guy away. Time for Adam Silver to meet these shockingly offensive and racist words with an equally shocking and powerful punishment. Ban him. Kick him out of the league. Whatever. The NBA and this racist need to part ways.

Between this guy, cliven, and our political climate, it's getting real old these kinds of "slip ups." Racism appears to be alive and well here in the United States.

The NBA could easily take a stand now - and could've with each past transgression from Sterling - but the NBA would have to sacrifice hundreds of millions of dollars in doing so.

 

[moevillini]

don't agree at all with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Sterling, but it bothers me more that a private conversation was recorded and sold to an online celebrity gossip website that now seems to milking the controversy for every penny it can get

wish I had a better understanding of the rules against recording a private conversation and making it public (or allowing it to be made public)

agree with the statement someone expressed above about a former girlfriend trying to use this for her own personal profit

 

[Qman]

don't agree at all with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Sterling, but it bothers me more that a private conversation was recorded and sold to an online celebrity gossip website that now seems to milking the controversy for every penny it can get

wish I had a better understanding of the rules against recording a private conversation and making it public (or allowing it to be made public)

agree with the statement someone expressed above about a former girlfriend trying to use this for her own personal profit

In many states that is crime as an illegal wire-tapping. I don't the know the laws in California. However I suspect most DA's offices wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

 

[fishonjazz]

don't agree at all with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Sterling, but it bothers me more that a private conversation was recorded and sold to an online celebrity gossip website that now seems to milking the controversy for every penny it can get

wish I had a better understanding of the rules against recording a private conversation and making it public (or allowing it to be made public)

agree with the statement someone expressed above about a former girlfriend trying to use this for her own personal profit

Seems like sterling and his ex bitch should both be reprimanded

 

[dodo]

I agree that taping and selling private conversations is disgusting. However, now that is out in the open, I don't see anyone standing and backing him up. State Farm is pulling out of their sponsorship of the Clippers, others will follow. There has to be some kind of repercussion for this to boil over. Do you think the league can force him to sell the Clips? I don't know what else they can do besides a fine

 

[Duck Rodgers]

So what do you guys make of the NAACP stuff? He's been given awards for minority outreach in the past, been profiled in the L.A. Times for the same thing, and was supposed to be given another award here by them in a few weeks. Just doing some good to cover up for the rottenness in his soul? I think that's what a lot of philanthropy boils down to honestly - both at the individual and institutional levels. Have to keep that veener shiny.

 

[mellow]

It also bears mentioning that after listening to the tape I have no doubt in my mind it was made for the express purpose of blackmailing him by his now ex-girlfriend.

Is it true that she has over 15 hours of recordings of him?
Was she hanging out with Magic Johnson, what is her connection to Magic?

Is it a coincidence that Magic Johnson is linked to a group already wanting to buy the Clippers?

This story just gets weirder and weirder.

Terrible timing too, the playoffs actually have some interesting match ups, and Dr. jack Ramsey passed away but the Sterling story steals all of the headlines.

 

[John Crotty]

Is it true that she has over 15 hours of recordings of him?
Was she hanging out with Magic Johnson, what is her connection to Magic?

Is it a coincidence that Magic Johnson is linked to a group already wanting to buy the Clippers?

This story just gets weirder and weirder.

Terrible timing too, the playoffs actually have some interesting match ups, and Dr. jack Ramsey passed away but the Sterling story steals all of the headlines.

Last I heard it was 100 hours.

 

[DutchJazzer]

don't agree at all with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Sterling, but it bothers me more that a private conversation was recorded and sold to an online celebrity gossip website that now seems to milking the controversy for every penny it can get

wish I had a better understanding of the rules against recording a private conversation and making it public (or allowing it to be made public)

agree with the statement someone expressed above about a former girlfriend trying to use this for her own personal profit

tmz is just as gross as sterling.

i mean serioulsy how hard is it to ask.

where did this tape come from?
where was it said?
why?
between who and who?


and then come to the conclusion it was said in the privacy of his home. and that everyone deserves privacy. and then just kindly destroy the tape.
thtas the morrally correct thing to do.

yet all these people judge him, after they them self committed something mortally wrong. listening in on someones private conversation.


this sickens me more than whatever sterling said on the tape.



note: i did not listen to a single second of the tape or read the transscripts. so dont know whatand how bad it is. and i dont care.
so please stop this madness.