lebron is a super chill bro, i just wish he'd brought his pals wade and bosh to cleveland but then again speaking of shitty owners...
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
xp he's taken his talents... to your heart
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
http://ballislife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/trollface.jpg
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152414099224887&id=35285954886
frankie muniz weighs in
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
@mollyesqueNate Silver’s former partner -> RT @nachofiesta: A Silver I can respect.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
silver should have walked off the podium doing the sam cassell dance
Zach Lowe @ZachLowe_NBA 28mLeague sources say Silver/league, not Sterling, would control Clips sales process in event Silver gets the required 3/4 vote to force it.
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA 35mBottom line: There isn't a franchise that could withstand public backlash of failing to vote w/ Adam Silver on Donald Sterling's ouster.
Arash Markazi @ArashMarkazi 26mClippers won't be issuing a statement from Donald Sterling. "He's not a part of the team anymore."
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
So many owners are coming out echoing Cuban's "100% suppport" for Silver's decision; I can't see any of them choosing to stand in the way of forcing Sterling to sell if only for the backlash they'd get.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
xp yep Woj bottom line otm
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
as i just read elsewhere, this is how you run a cartel
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
haha i was thinking the same thing
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
Would really like to read a good longform piece on his tenure with the Clips now. Seems like that will probably happen.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
uh the clippers are FIVE HUNDRED PLUS games below .500 as a franchise. If they repeated this season over and over again they'd hit .500 in 2030.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
good christ
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
also a lot of credit should go to the players, i haven't seen the nbpa press conference but i guess roger mason basically said all the playoff teams were gonna boycott if silver didn't come out like this
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
LeBron's response(s) to all this has made me realize I've gone from actively disliking him to really liking him. Lebron is not a horrible person!― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, April 29, 2014
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, April 29, 2014
don't be fooled . . .
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/371/430/f8e.gif
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
The thing that disturbs me most about the tape is that Sterling mainly seems to be upset because others in his circle were giving him grief for his mistress associating with black people. I assume this circle is nothing but rich white guys. Who are still alive and still in power and still racist as fuck. Barf.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Right, they were shitty as fuck most of the time and he was notoriously cheap with them. All the more reason I feel like this would make an entertaining story.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
this will be an interesting, likely public, fight. sterling: "clippers not for sale."
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Kinda bummed all those guys are gonna still be on the Clippers next year
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
xp ftr he said that before silver's announcement
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link
that's right. but i'm sure he said it knowing the possibility existed that silver would try to force him out.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
clearly not much love lost between sterling and the rest of the owners, not so much as a single hes a good guy but... in the run up to this
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
This is pretty old and I don't remember if I've ever read it but: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1018960/1/index.htm?eref=sircrc
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
it doesn't matter. Silver has supermajority of owners. The by-laws are clear. He's gone.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:26 (ten years ago) link
Bahaha, yes!http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/2000/0417_large.jpg
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
forbes article has an interesting perspective on sterling's likely reactions.
Sterling has yet to respond but people who are sure that he now must sell, take his $750 million profit and go (he bought the team in 1981 for $13 million, reportedly assuming $11 million in obligations, paying $2 million in cash), don’t know Donald.Insiders say he had to be talked out of attending Sunday’s loss to the Warriors in Oakland and doesn’t comprehend his predicament. A source told me he called Coach Doc Rivers to explain, but Rivers refused to discuss the matter.We’re not talking about everyday denial. This is someone who can tell his girlfriend, V. Stiviano—that’s what she was actually called—who describes herself as “black and Mexican,” not to “broadcast” a photo she took with Magic Johnson or bring African-Americans to Clipper games … where she often sat next to Sterling in the seat that would be otherwise occupied by Shelly Sterling.Sterling has great tolerance for chaos — he seems to revel in it. Alexandra Castro, the young woman he sued in 2004 when he acknowledged paying for sex, portraying her as a $500-a-night prostitute, is still often a guest at Clipper games.“Donald’s not wired to let all this in,” said a former staffer. “I’ll bet he’s preparing to sue the league for devaluing his franchise. The thing he’s mad about is that nobody is using the T in his name.”Sterling, born Donald Tokowitz, the son of a pushcart peddler in hardscrabble Boyle Heights, is now Donald Tokowitz Sterling. I lampooned him in open letters for 20 years in the Los Angeles Times and the only thing he ever complained about, aside from telling me, “I didn’t understand what you meant,” was the first one when I left out the T.Not that Sterling doesn’t have some defenders, or at least one. Noted Donald Trump, who presumably knows whereof he speaks: “He got set up by a very, very bad girlfriend. Let’s face it. She’s the girlfriend from Hell.”
Insiders say he had to be talked out of attending Sunday’s loss to the Warriors in Oakland and doesn’t comprehend his predicament. A source told me he called Coach Doc Rivers to explain, but Rivers refused to discuss the matter.
We’re not talking about everyday denial. This is someone who can tell his girlfriend, V. Stiviano—that’s what she was actually called—who describes herself as “black and Mexican,” not to “broadcast” a photo she took with Magic Johnson or bring African-Americans to Clipper games … where she often sat next to Sterling in the seat that would be otherwise occupied by Shelly Sterling.
Sterling has great tolerance for chaos — he seems to revel in it. Alexandra Castro, the young woman he sued in 2004 when he acknowledged paying for sex, portraying her as a $500-a-night prostitute, is still often a guest at Clipper games.
“Donald’s not wired to let all this in,” said a former staffer. “I’ll bet he’s preparing to sue the league for devaluing his franchise. The thing he’s mad about is that nobody is using the T in his name.”
Sterling, born Donald Tokowitz, the son of a pushcart peddler in hardscrabble Boyle Heights, is now Donald Tokowitz Sterling. I lampooned him in open letters for 20 years in the Los Angeles Times and the only thing he ever complained about, aside from telling me, “I didn’t understand what you meant,” was the first one when I left out the T.
Not that Sterling doesn’t have some defenders, or at least one. Noted Donald Trump, who presumably knows whereof he speaks: “He got set up by a very, very bad girlfriend. Let’s face it. She’s the girlfriend from Hell.”
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link
i think the r-skins thing is actually worse since it's embedded into the culture of the NFL so deeply that it's more difficult to dislodge. sterling said horrible things but the NBA just straightaway booted him. the NFL has all their whining about tradition and "it's a difficult issue".― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 3:39 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 3:39 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fucking seriously, and goddamn CHIEF WAHOO, too. i don't know whether the http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG name or the wahoo mascot is worse. i'm from cleveland and it's just an embarrassment.
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
I mean let's face it
― Dominique, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
The by-laws are clear. He's gone
Sterling might conceivably cook up a suit to challenge the legality of the NBA owners' agreement and seek a stay on the basis of 'irreparable harm' if he's forced to sell. If he succeeds in dragging this into court, he could hang onto the franchise for years. Otherwise, he's out of there as soon as the owners can vote on it.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
sounds like he's contemplating a lawsuit to allege the nba is driving down the current market value of his franchise. theoretically, that's a potentially viable claim that he might be able to bring outside of the nba's constitution.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:34 (ten years ago) link
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:29 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao “I didn’t understand what you meant,”
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:34 (ten years ago) link
That suit would get dismissed quickly. /ilh legal analyst
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
someone should change the thread title ("donald t. sterling is a horrible person").
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
seems like a few days ago franchise was valued at $545 mil and now it's close to a billion, talk of "bidding war" too...can't see any claims of NBA driving price down going anywhere.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
xp lol cosign.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
http://riseandfired.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/FMunizClips.png
― am0n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
please make this happen
NBA Legion @MySportsLegion 1h -- P-Diddy has expressed interested in purchasing the Clippers.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that was forbes pretend estimate, seeing as the bucks just sold for that much people are doing their own estimating
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
support diddy ownership 5000%
new protest under way
http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/files/import/i-b4df874be7677c8b9eadde855fabeb42-sam_cassell_2.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
That suit would get dismissed quickly.
Since it's a voluntary association he entered into and a contract he knowingly signed, unless he comes up with a novel argument that a judge found interesting for broader reasons, I agree. But I do expect him to try and lord knows a clever lawyer can tie things up in knots once a lawsuit is in play.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
i'm no pacers fan, but david west seems like a good guy.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
Cassell pic is him getting ready to reveal the second-biggest bust in the room oops wrong thread.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
not sure, at all, i agree with the notion that a lawsuit for diminished franchise value would be so easily and quickly dismissed. it might, but it's a very complicated analysis, to some extent turning on language in instruments that aren't publicly available.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
should get a black owner, black coach from south bronx, all white players from Malibu
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
P Diddy brings his date to lockerroom to admire Redick's "beautiful white body"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
guiltylol
― kidd-gilchrist-douglas-roberts- (Spottie), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
Same.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
damn...
David West ✔ @D_West30Sterling basically articulated Plantation Politics...Make money off the Bucks/Lay with the Women/No Association in Public good or bad
― am0n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link