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Posted on 5/1/14 at 5:47 pm to bulldog95
Sterling will come back before Derrick Rose.
Posted on 5/1/14 at 5:51 pm to hg
My question what if another owner pisses off enough of the owners down the road for whatever reason, would they be able to force them to sell their team if 22 owners voted yay.
Posted on 5/1/14 at 5:52 pm to bulldog95
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if another owner pisses off enough of the owners down the road for whatever reason, would they be able to force them to sell their team if 22 owners voted yay?
Yes.
Posted on 5/1/14 at 5:54 pm to Alt26
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The precedent has been set which is that the verbalizing of any views which may be offensive to some or any segment of the population must result in a lifetime ban and forced sale of your business. The problem is that what is or isn't considered "offensive" is extremely ambiguous. For example, is a team owner going to be banned for life because ...
If the punishment for any and all discrimination (owner or player) isn't equally handed out, then you have now created a hirearchy of discrimination.
There is no precedent, this is a one off thing because of this owner and his past. Rich Devoss (a way/Orlando magic) is anti gay marriage and currently boycotted by gay activist groups but he won't be booted.
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There's no slippery slope or danger. The nba will determine case by case just like judges and juries.
Posted on 5/1/14 at 6:00 pm to tiger2012
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There is no precedent, this is a one off thing because of this owner and his past. Rich Devoss (a way/Orlando magic) is anti gay marriage and currently boycotted by gay activist groups but he won't be booted.
No it's not. The punishment was specifically handed down with clear specification that it was only based on this recent incident. Silver did that on purpose to cover his arse and try to minimize the slippery slope, but in the end, he SHOULD lose in court because it is a ridiculous punishment for a crime that is being overblown. Again, a player settles a rape case, basically admits it was rape in his statement, and got literally no punishment whatsoever. Another player batters his coach by choking him and wasn't banished. Other players used racist or prejudice remarks and got slapped on the wrist with a fine. This is where Sterling has a case. If you can be associated with the league after those things, you can get banished for a personal set of beliefs where the league can't prove you followed them with your employees?
In the end, this whole shitstorm is because people are overreacting as if Sterling is freaking slave trader. It's pathetic how far people are taking this and how they are turning multimillionaires into massive victims when they suffered nothing.
Posted on 5/1/14 at 7:31 pm to Na Mean
Attention, there is an old white rich democrat who is a bigot. Everyone remain calm. Help is on the way.
Posted on 5/1/14 at 8:11 pm to bulldog95
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My question what if another owner pisses off enough of the owners down the road for whatever reason, would they be able to force them to sell their team if 22 owners voted yay.
Was he the cause of something greatly detrimental to their franchises? Then the answer is yes they will force him to sell.
Again he owns a McDonald's not Sterling's Burgers and Fries. What you do effects the other owners and if you effect their business negatively they have every right to make you sell.
Posted on 5/1/14 at 8:19 pm to jg8623
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Any owner voting for Sterling would be committing career suicide simply based on the risk of the vote becoming public like so many other private things do these days
At the rate this escalated it'd be grounds to suspend them for life, at the very least!
Sterlings an arse, and should've been disciplined long ago but this has been crazy
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