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4/29/2014 3:25:00 PM

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"Just out of curiosity, how did he get all of his money?"

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"Starting in 1961, Sterling began to make his career as a divorce and personal injury attorney. Having no chance at working for most prestigious law firms,[citation needed] he built an independent practice and claimed that he tried 10,000 cases.[citation needed] His biggest ventures were in real estate, which he began when he purchased a 26-unit apartment building in Beverly Hills."

Wikipedia is still up & running

[Edited on April 29, 2014 at 3:25 PM. Reason : a]

4/29/2014 3:25:02 PM

I'm glad wikipedia still works. It's a solid website, and I'd hate for anything to ever happen to it. I hear google is pretty good at searches also.

4/29/2014 3:27:32 PM

any Sterling Silver jokes yet?

4/29/2014 3:36:39 PM

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"To me, the most surprising thing to take away from all this is that there are this many people that still care about the NBA."

4/29/2014 3:40:28 PM

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/bfs/4446366921.html

4/29/2014 3:40:29 PM

lol

4/29/2014 3:41:52 PM

$700M OBO


http://www.forbes.com/nba-valuations/#page:2_sort:0_direction:asc_search:

looks like the franchise is only worth $575M

4/29/2014 3:43:55 PM

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"To me, the most surprising thing to take away from all this is that there are this many people that still care about the NBA"

the league is as popular/profitable as it's ever been, brah

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"One private opinion made public, dude lost his team and $2.5mil."

doesn't matter how it became public, once it's out, it's out

and that $2.5 million means absolutely nothing to a billionaire who is about to make another billion from selling the team

rich, racist people problems and such

4/29/2014 4:01:57 PM

I can't wait to see the signs at the next game. Will probably be plenty playing on the fact that hey didn't want his GF to bring black people to the games and now he can't even go to the games. Would be awesome if the GF showed up with a whole entourage of black friends.

4/29/2014 4:11:09 PM

this happened in Golden State on Sunday:

4/29/2014 4:25:59 PM

twitter users don't understand the first amendment

4/29/2014 4:39:09 PM

^^ Yeah I saw that and it was awesome. Expecting more from the Clippers fans now that he is banned.

4/29/2014 4:41:41 PM

a majority of people who bring up the 1st Amendment have absolutely no idea what they're talking about

4/29/2014 4:47:12 PM

Spike Lee will be sitting in Sterling's chair tonight

4/29/2014 4:53:25 PM

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"Stiviano is being sued by Rochelle Sterling, who is seeking to reclaim at least $1.8 million in cash and gifts that her husband allegedly provided the woman."

he is an all around horrible person.

4/29/2014 5:02:17 PM

yeah. seems like the kind of guy who is obsessed with female fitness models

4/29/2014 5:09:57 PM

holy shit, did you come up with that fallacy all by yourself? god damn you a smart boy!

4/29/2014 5:19:43 PM

is your wife aware of your obsession?

4/29/2014 5:23:24 PM

^^ I see no fallacy.

He called you a horrible person.

4/29/2014 5:24:08 PM

^ you are such a goddamn idiot, take some math or logic classes. many people are horrible for one reason or another. i cited a specific action by him, which i obviously am not guilty of. looking at pics is not the same as having an affair, goddamit did i really have to spell it out? also, being obsessed with fitness models makes one a horrible person, um, ok.

^^ i don't know... but what does it matter? y'all look at porn, and our friend synapse is fond of looking at pics of naked 18 year olds, and has a stash of them, but i am horrible for looking at pics of semi-clothed mature women, who actually post the pics in public on their own, as opposed to synapse's pics which seem like they have been posted on the internet by pedos who stole them and by jilted bfs.

4/29/2014 5:43:25 PM

I never follow NBA rules, so I would appreciate if someone could explain to me how the NBA can levy a fine against an individual? I get they can permaban him, but what power do they have to enforce the fine if he chooses not to pay it?

4/29/2014 5:49:11 PM

4/29/2014 5:52:46 PM

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"what power do they have to enforce the fine if he chooses not to pay it?"

i, too, am curious about this. unless there's something written in the league constitution, if he's forced to sell the team and wash his hands of the league, how could they possibly require him to pay a fine to a league he's not even part of?

4/29/2014 5:55:16 PM

If the Warriors win tonight, it's because the Clippers players have too much adversity to overcome.
if the Clippers win tonight, it's because they are valiant and able to overcome intense adversity.

4/29/2014 6:16:57 PM

GN, SP

4/29/2014 6:19:46 PM

I also wondered how the Association can make him pay a fine, AND sell the team. Seems like he should be able to say "I'm not paying a fine, so kick me out of the Association if you have to". Or say, "well, you kicked me out of the Association, so our contract is void. You can't force me to pay shit out of contract".

But I refused to think about it too much though, because .... lol. And just said to myself, well, you don't know what type of legal contract he signed in order to be a team owner in the NBA. He'll, his signed contract might say that he can't do or say anything to cast the Association in a negative light, else the Association reserves the right to blah blah blah....

[Edited on April 29, 2014 at 6:42 PM. Reason : kkk, I'm sofa king happy Beethoven is posting. I like her.]

4/29/2014 6:41:27 PM

I'm happy with the verdict. What an asshole. That's like your company CEO calling everyone that works at the company fucking stupid, and (verified) word gets back to the Board. You goddamn right he should have been fired and whatever else that can comes with that.

4/29/2014 7:19:47 PM

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"According to the NBA constitution, Sterling has 30 days to pay his $2.5MM fine, tweets Ken Berger of CBS Sports. If Sterling fails to comply, that in itself will be grounds for his dismissal by the Board of Governors."

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"Sources tell Grantland’s Zach Lowe that Silver and the league, and not Sterling, would control the sale of the Clippers if the owners vote to take the team away from Sterling "

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"Players were ready to boycott games if Silver didn’t act as they wanted him to, union vice president Roger Mason said, as Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports tweets. Mason added that the players want owners to swiftly vote on Sterling’s ouster, according to Arash Markazi of ESPNLosAngeles.com"

4/29/2014 7:22:16 PM

They better not ban Jigga from the league for lyrics mentioning crackers

4/29/2014 7:27:33 PM

YEAH, ESPECIALLY THOSE CRACKERS THAT CAN BE READILY IDENTIFIED.

4/29/2014 7:41:34 PM

There is no place in the NBA for racism

4/29/2014 7:45:03 PM

^lol wut

4/29/2014 7:45:28 PM

I read somewhere that he gave the gold digger permission to record him?!

4/29/2014 7:56:01 PM

The litigation that is going to spawn from this will take years to resolve. Yes he is a bigot, but don't think for 5 seconds that he doesn't have a reasonable legal argument in court over what's happened.

4/29/2014 8:20:55 PM

their constitution seems to allow exactly what happened



[Edited on April 29, 2014 at 8:24 PM. Reason : NBA constitution made public today]

4/29/2014 8:24:26 PM

Most of that language isn't strictly defined and is open to interpretation. I can see grounds for $2M of fines from the constitution, and as little as $0. Lawyers and the courts are going to be busy with this shit for years.

4/29/2014 8:28:46 PM

why was the NAACP honoring Sterling with their Lifetime Achievement Award?

he must have been a pretty good dude until this recording came out

4/29/2014 8:50:13 PM

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"The litigation that is going to spawn from this will take years to resolve. Yes he is a bigot, but don't think for 5 seconds that he doesn't have a reasonable legal argument in court over what's happened."

TWW lawyers please weigh in, because I'm under this impression too. I think his lawyer is going to rip the NBA to shreds in court. If you read the transcript, he doesn't actually say he doesn't want black people to go to his games.

Also, guys like Jason Kidd who is convicted of beating his wife, or Kobe who had a bunch of tweets about gays weren't banned.

I really just think the NBA wanted to win the court of public opinion, knowing full well they are about to get their doors blown off in real court.

4/29/2014 9:04:37 PM

^^ I think that Sterling gave a pretty sizable to the NAACP in the name of charity. It's widely believed (now) that this was a monetary blanket to shield himself from racism allegations.

That does, however, raise the very good question of the screening process the NAACP goes through when determine who will be a recipient of this award. Also, if here is any implicit framework present that "says" those who donate a large amount of cash will receive a reward/award.

If course, the NAACP has rescinded their plans to give him an award, and gave his donation back to him.

Before anyone's mind gets blown about those crazy things a black guys said about the NAACP, it is my belief that that organization serves an important purpose today, just as they did in the past, by the way of sometimes extreme views to counteract the extreme views coming from the "other side"... The idea that if your opponent is extreme, but your position is in the middle, any negotiation or compromise will place you off center. In that way, it's necessary for them to be extreme at times. In the same breath, I also think the NAACP is an old organization using an outdated method of getting results.

[Edited on April 29, 2014 at 9:15 PM. Reason : MOAR]

4/29/2014 9:09:42 PM

agreed. if he's a habitual racist with a long track record of holding back minorities, the group that strives to advance colored people should have known better

[Edited on April 29, 2014 at 9:12 PM. Reason : m]

4/29/2014 9:12:31 PM

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"he doesn't actually say he doesn't want black people to go to his games."

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"Among the things Sterling appears to say on the tape: "It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people." And: "But why publicize it on the Instagram and why bring it to my games?" Sterling also states that his girlfriend is free to sleep with black men, as long as she doesn't bring them to Clippers games (or appear with them on Instagram)."

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"I really just think the NBA wanted to win the court of public opinion, knowing full well they are about to get their doors blown off in real court."

You appear to be biased in favor of this guy, so what do you think his punishment should be, if any?

4/29/2014 9:13:40 PM

^^ I added more text. I feel as if I should tell you that, since you said "agreed", to give you an opportunity to edit your post if you wish.

[Edited on April 29, 2014 at 9:16 PM. Reason : Ipad]

4/29/2014 9:16:20 PM

I'm actually unbiased, therefore I'm trying to discuss what actually might happen. I find high profile things like this fascinating, and looking at it, I don't think they have a legal leg to stand on.

4/29/2014 9:18:33 PM

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"I never follow NBA rules, so I would appreciate if someone could explain to me how the NBA can levy a fine against an individual? I get they can permaban him, but what power do they have to enforce the fine if he chooses not to pay it?"

You think the League just sells teams to people without some sort of protections against an owner? It's undoubtedly enforceable via whatever purchase agreement or other agreements he was subject to in order to be a part of the Board and Association itself...whatever those may be.

4/29/2014 9:19:53 PM

Donald Sterling is a racist piece of shit. The NBA was looking for an opportunity to get rid of him and TMZ handed them one. The fact that he bought an award from the NAACP doesn't make him less racist.

4/29/2014 9:22:01 PM

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"and looking at it, I don't think they have a legal leg to stand on."

you say that as if Silver (who is a lawyer) and the league as a whole don't have excellent legal counsel as well

to me, it seems like he was in clear violation of the NBA constitution, to me

[Edited on April 29, 2014 at 9:24 PM. Reason : yeah]

4/29/2014 9:22:27 PM

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"his girlfriend is free to sleep with black men, as long as she doesn't bring them to Clippers games"

this still doesn't make any sense

what kind of racist is cool with his girlfriend getting the mandingo dick on the side?

4/29/2014 9:23:32 PM

^^

I'm sure they do, but the evidence to take away someone's billion dollar business just isn't there.

[Edited on April 29, 2014 at 9:25 PM. Reason : this is the type of thread goodlife gets a chub over]

4/29/2014 9:24:31 PM

^^ the kind that doesn't want his racist friends to see his sidepiece with a black dude

[Edited on April 29, 2014 at 9:26 PM. Reason : ^ go on about my chubs some more, plz]

4/29/2014 9:25:16 PM