donald sterling is a horrible person

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.

good christ

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

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

don't be fooled . . .

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/371/430/f8e.gif

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.

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, 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.

this will be an interesting, likely public, fight. sterling: "clippers not for sale."

Kinda bummed all those guys are gonna still be on the Clippers next year

xp ftr he said that before silver's announcement

that's right. but i'm sure he said it knowing the possibility existed that silver would try to force him out.

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

Would really like to read a good longform piece on his tenure with the Clips now. Seems like that will probably happen.

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

it doesn't matter. Silver has supermajority of owners. The by-laws are clear. He's gone.

Bahaha, yes!
http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/2000/0417_large.jpg

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.”

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

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.

I mean let's face it

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.

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.

“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.

― 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,”

That suit would get dismissed quickly.
/ilh legal analyst

someone should change the thread title ("donald t. sterling is a horrible person").

lol

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.

xp lol cosign.

http://riseandfired.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/FMunizClips.png

please make this happen

NBA Legion ‏@MySportsLegion 1h -- P-Diddy has expressed interested in purchasing the Clippers.

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, 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

support diddy ownership 5000%

new protest under way

http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/files/import/i-b4df874be7677c8b9eadde855fabeb42-sam_cassell_2.jpg

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.

i'm no pacers fan, but david west seems like a good guy.

Cassell pic is him getting ready to reveal the second-biggest bust in the room oops wrong thread.

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.

should get a black owner, black coach from south bronx, all white players from Malibu

P Diddy brings his date to lockerroom to admire Redick's "beautiful white body"

guiltylol

Same.

damn...

David West ✔ @D_West30
Sterling basically articulated Plantation Politics...Make money off the Bucks/Lay with the Women/No Association in Public good or bad

<3

http://deadspin.com/in-10-minutes-espns-bomani-jones-lays-waste-to-the-ste-1569195989

damn...

David West ✔ @D_West30
Sterling basically articulated Plantation Politics...Make money off the Bucks/Lay with the Women/No Association in Public good or bad

― am0n, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Did a slight double-take at "Bucks" before I realized what he meant

bomani jones otm, but still, now some people ARE paying more attention to all the other stuff Donald Sterling did because of this, and also, I think this incident stuck much more because of his past. Like if some other owner had just made isolated racist statements IDK if the NBA would be forcing him to sell.

the spin that right-wingers are putting on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's comments about this is really disgusting to me.

I feel like I'm not even sure I want to know what spin that is.

But now I am hearing the harsh imagined sound of "KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR" as intoned by Sean Hannity ringing out over and over again.

oof that Bomani Jones rant was super OTM

the substantive angry parts, but also the "you can sleep with black men, just don't pictures of yourself with them on Instagram" clowning because I have been nonstop marveling at that since this story broke

xp NRO is a shitty stupid place but even there a few writers basically said as much as any other reasonable person would, re: both sterling and cliven bundy's comments last week

I expect to see lots of stupid internet comments about how Sterling is being deprived of his "property rights" from commenters who don't understand contracts.

have been v busy today and couldn't check in but this is deeply cool and just.

honestly proud of adam silver. in the like 20+ years I've been following the league I've become conditioned to assume the right thing being done about a given situation was an extreme rarity. the new regime is ostensibly offering hope here. and that's cool.

let's remember this is the right thing being done solely for bottom-line reasons

textbook Morbs here but gotta call bullshit due to the "solely" in there. I have no doubt that many NBA people, from Silver to other owners to dudes who parks players' cars, were for real appalled by Sterling's audio.