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re: Woj: Silver Exploring "Nuclear" Option on Sterling
Posted on 4/29/14 at 9:56 am to drake20
Posted on 4/29/14 at 9:56 am to drake20
Cubans a smart man.been my argument from beginning of this. Always defend opinions..even stupid ones. Eventually an opinion of yours will be targeted. Educate Ignorant views is much more effective then quick unfair punishment. will just make people firmer on their views
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Posted on 4/29/14 at 9:56 am to shel311
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Or things that adversely affect the other owners/league(broad language)
The Grammar Police have determined that you are in compliance.
This post was edited on 4/29/14 at 9:57 am
Posted on 4/29/14 at 9:57 am to SlowFlowPro
From David Roth
LINK
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It's strange and a little upsetting to see how Sterling sounding like a bigot is being punished so much more and so much more quickly than him actively being a bigot.
LINK
Posted on 4/29/14 at 9:57 am to SlowFlowPro
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the general public gets a pass. NBA fans...do not
Coming from a pretty diehard NBA fan, I knew nothing about Sterling before this came out. Most of us aren't paying attention to alleged racial tendencies halfway across the country. Like I've said, this is the "smoking gun" that allowed the public to crucify him instead of speculating.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 9:58 am to shel311
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So you're telling me that Chris Paul's choices were limited in where he could play? Think about that.
There are a finite amount of teams. Of those, only a few have a legitimate shot to win a title. A player of CP3's caliber made his decision to play in LA based upon what team he thought would give him the best shot at winning a championship. Those are the more immediate issues at play.
That in no way means he cannot express his displeasure at his owner's continued foibles.
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Except for the part where one is a slave and had zero choice and the slave owner fed them and gave them food so they could continue to be slaves and do the things the owner needed them to do compared to freely choosing to sign a contract with 1 team when 25 more would gladly take you
The analogy is that just because one is compensated and cared for, does not mean that the worker must needs appreciate the druthers of those in charge of the work environment.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 9:58 am to shel311
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It's funny because I think based on everything, not just this 1 event, the NBA and even the owners should absolutely not want this dude owning a team, but if I'm an owner, there's no way i'm voting to remove another owner. Can't set that precdent, I'd much rather try to put pressure to force him to make the decision to sell.
Not to mention the fact that the NBA is not exempt from antitrust laws like MLB. Sterling will tie them up in court for years and would likely create new law that would not be beneficial to the NBA. The NBA can rattle their sabers all they want, but in the end it is probably prudent to fine and suspend him and leave it at that.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 9:59 am to Galactic Inquisitor
Posted on 4/29/14 at 9:59 am to SDVTiger
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You've been on this board posting about this for 24hrs straight
I've been on many boards posting about many things in the past 24 hours, not just this issue.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 9:59 am to corndeaux
sterling is a weird guy
hired the first black GM in history (who sucked, but still was GM for like 20+ years). hired a slew of black head coaches, even back when it was a an unwritten "no no" rule. i mean his FIRST coach was black
and for everyone who is saying "people in the NBA circle didn't know" re: his reputation, when baylor (who sucked) was finally fired and filed that racial discrimination suit against sterling, the running joke was that the only shot in hell he had to win was b/c of sterling's reputation (and we'd have to ignore 20 years of fricking sucking at your job)
hired the first black GM in history (who sucked, but still was GM for like 20+ years). hired a slew of black head coaches, even back when it was a an unwritten "no no" rule. i mean his FIRST coach was black
and for everyone who is saying "people in the NBA circle didn't know" re: his reputation, when baylor (who sucked) was finally fired and filed that racial discrimination suit against sterling, the running joke was that the only shot in hell he had to win was b/c of sterling's reputation (and we'd have to ignore 20 years of fricking sucking at your job)
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:00 am to corndeaux
quote:Yea, that's a great point.
It's strange and a little upsetting to see how Sterling sounding like a bigot is being punished so much more and so much more quickly than him actively being a bigot.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:00 am to corndeaux
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David Roth
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:00 am to shel311
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Yea, that's a great point.
Kareem and Bomani Jones were screaming a similar point yesterday
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:02 am to TbirdSpur2010
quote:So right now, in the midst of the playoffs, winning a championship needs isn't priority 1, it shifts to the moral compass of the owner. Inconsistent, man.
A player of CP3's caliber made his decision to play in LA based upon what team he thought would give him the best shot at winning a championship. Those are the more immediate issues at play
quote:He can, but he chose to go to that owner, when he could have gone elsewhere.
That in no way means he cannot express his displeasure at his owner's continued foibles
quote:Analogy doesn't apply when 1 literally has no choice and the other literally has teams begging for his services, that's where it fails.
The analogy is that just because one is compensated and cared for, does not mean that the worker must needs appreciate the druthers of those in charge of the work environment
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:06 am to shel311
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So right now, in the midst of the playoffs, winning a championship needs isn't priority 1, it shifts to the moral compass of the owner. Inconsistent, man.
Inconsistent how? The uproar this has caused is obviously affecting their work environment. For that reason alone, they have a right to be peeved. Racism is the icing on the cake.
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he chose to go to that owner, when he could have gone elsewhere.
Still does not mean that he can't express displeasure with said owner.
Look, we're obviously at an impasse here. I'm cool to agree to disagree
No one's mind is going to change, and the discussion has gone as far as it will on this particular point.Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:06 am to SlowFlowPro
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it's been manufactured into a big deal. a guy with racist tendencies saying something about his half-black whore being seen out with black people (while she could still frick them, per him, mind you)...not a big deal
I agree with what you are saying...but I modified your statement to even further your point. She was his public trophy...someone he paraded around. The image thing is central to her value to him.
Meanwhile, I haven't seen anything that indicated that he has discriminated against anyone in the Clipper organization...or created a hostile workplace due to his overt racism. And, even if he had, that's that where the outrage is coming from.
This is manufactured in large part by attacking an easy target (a rich racist POS).
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:06 am to Kracka
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Mark Cuban has already come out and said he's likely to oppose any such action because of the precedent it sets.
Looks like one of those rare times where I agree with Mark Cuban.
Sterling's an a-hole who really shouldn't own a team, but stripping him of the team or destroying the roster in an attempt to force him to sell is a horrible precedent.
Making him do some form of very public penance, such as large fines, suspensions / bans from NBA activities / games, etc., should be on the table.
Hell, I think that Clippers pre-game festivities should probably involve him being in stocks with rotten produce thrown at him.
Stripping him of the team, though? That's a really bad road to go down.
The league bought the Hornets because Shinn was insolvent and they were able to pressure the Maloofs into sell the Kings for pretty much the same reason. Sterling doesn't fall into that category no matter how miserable a person he is.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:07 am to teke184
Can the final computation of this mess involve Seattle getting a team? Maybe an all-black team. NO WHITES. 
This post was edited on 4/29/14 at 10:08 am
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:09 am to moneyg
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Meanwhile, I haven't seen anything that indicated that he has discriminated against anyone in the Clipper organization...or created a hostile workplace due to his overt racism. And, even if he had, that's that where the outrage is coming from
There was a bunch of stuff in the Elgin Baylor discrimination lawsuit which would qualify for a hostile work environment.
My personal favorites would be parading his girlfriends through the Clippers' locker room to "look at the beautiful black bodies" and lowballing Danny Manning on a contract because "that's a lot of money for a poor black kid."
That's not to say it is currently happening, but it has happened in the past.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:10 am to moneyg
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The image thing is central to her value to him
which is gross b/c she looked like a 50 year old plastic surgery victim in her 20s or whatever
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I haven't seen anything that indicated that he has discriminated against anyone in the Clipper organization...or created a hostile workplace due to his overt racism. And, even if he had, that's that where the outrage is coming from.
well there is the story about him taking another gf to the team shower so they could stand in aw of the black, naked bodies
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:10 am to TotesMcGotes
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It is a big deal. Just because he's done other things in the past many would deem worse than this that went unpunished doesn't mean this isn't a big deal.
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