Sports Daily: Should Donald Sterling Be Forced to Sell the Clippers?

[Vni]

Re: Sports Daily: Should Donald Sterling Be Forced to Sell the Clippers?

Hopefully banning Steriling helps blacks. It is sad that too many of them are suffering.

What is worse, whites or basically ever other race are at an advantage because they have Neanderthal genes and blacks don't. To put it simple, the blacks that stayed isolated in Africa never mixed their genes. Whites have black genes or mixed genes and as a result, pure blacks did not evolve as fast as every other race.

In any event, no one can handle or talk about the truth and we will never solve racism until we do.

What are you talking about man? All this 'race' talk makes me sick. I seriously thought we where over that.

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

Re: Sports Daily: Should Donald Sterling Be Forced to Sell the Clippers?

How the tape was obtained, and his actual point does not matter. Like one of the other posters said, he either sells the team and the league is fine or he hangs onto the team and sinks with them. Forcing him to sell the team is doing him and the league as a whole a favor.

[OSGuy321]

He's an old senile man. But it was the right move. Had to set an example. It's time for new money and a new generation to take over. I hope that they clean up FIFA next, the executive committee at FIFA is the same way... old senile men.

[rkocjay]

So if we are going to fire him for what he said, then shouldn't they fire Spike Lee from NBA Radio for all of the racist remarks he has made against white people?

Racism is a two way street.

ESPN radio am i correct Steven A smith show

[elgreazy1]

No. The man has the right to free speech regardless of his opinions.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

This has nothing to do with the First Amendment. At all. This is an issue of contract law. Does the NBA charter give the owners the right to force another owner to sell? That I don't believe, the provisions quoted so far don't seem to authorize that drastic a step, and I think if Sterling sued on that point he would win.

However, the NBA can always eject a franchise from the league. And the Clippers without an NBA deal are worth no more than your beer league team. So it's not so much forcing him to sell directly as threatening to make his franchise worthless unless he sells.

[ggsimmonds]

First, it is not a free speech issue.

Second, the NBA bylaws only allow the forceful removal of owners for financial reasons. The NBA will still go through with it, but Sterling will file a lawsuit. That could be very ugly for the NBA. If Sterling has any "dirt" on other owners it is coming out in discovery. Also many others may be hesitant to do it because of the precedent it would set.

Third, Sterling will fight as much as he can in order to avoid paying ~$300 million in capital gains tax.

My answer as to whether the NBA should be allowed to is only if the owners vote to do so.

[Simaofan-20]

No, however I do believe he should but is it really a punishment for the guy? He paid around 30 million dollars for the Clippers(with inflation) and he's going to get easily at least 100m for his team if not a staggering amount more. He did say it in the privacy of his own home and he was illegally recorded(right?) but his opinions are pretty terrible and thus he's been punished but forcing him to sell the team only makes him a bigger millionaire than he already is

[rtkiii]

No...opinion is opinion. Is it a terrible thing to say...yes of course. But this is his business and he OWNS it. I think the NBA could put pressure on him or the fans should protest to where he needs to sell. But forced. No.

[Optik]

Re: Sports Daily: Should Donald Sterling Be Forced to Sell the Clippers?

Hopefully banning Steriling helps blacks. It is sad that too many of them are suffering.

What is worse, whites or basically ever other race are at an advantage because they have Neanderthal genes and blacks don't. To put it simple, the blacks that stayed isolated in Africa never mixed their genes. Whites have black genes or mixed genes and as a result, pure blacks did not evolve as fast as every other race.

In any event, no one can handle or talk about the truth and we will never solve racism until we do.

This has got to be the dumbest post I have ever seen on this forum. This post is a tribute to pure stupidity.

No...opinion is opinion. Is it a terrible thing to say...yes of course. But this is his business and he OWNS it. I think the NBA could put pressure on him or the fans should protest to where he needs to sell. But forced. No.

I don't think you understand the nature of "his" business. Without the Clippers being associated with the NBA, that franchise is worth nothing. If a guy owned a McDonalds franchise and then was booted out of the McDs community, he's got nothing to bring people to his restaurant anymore.

[23]

Re: Sports Daily: Should Donald Sterling Be Forced to Sell the Clippers?

Owning a team in the NBA is a privilege not a right so yeah once you start damaging the business you're on the way out one way or another.

Galaxy Note 2

[da ThRONe]

Re: Sports Daily: Should Donald Sterling Be Forced to Sell the Clippers?

Since they legally have the right to do so I guess that means the answer is yes. I struggle with it because I'm not a person who feels that legal and right are mutually exclusive.


Taking my humane hat off and putting my business hat on* They have to get away from Sterling. Sterling is toxic and his association with the NBA(or any other business) would hurt the league financial. Those owners will vote him out because of self-interest. This precedence is not something they want to set, but it's the overwhelming lesser of the two evils to their long and short term profits.

[LowerWolf]

Re: Sports Daily: Should Donald Sterling Be Forced to Sell the Clippers?

Sterling has a right to be a bigoted idiot. The NBA has a right to not have bigoted idiots in its league.

[aholbert32]

Re: Sports Daily: Should Donald Sterling Be Forced to Sell the Clippers?

locked...no political/race discussion in OS forums.

[da ThRONe]

Re: Sports Daily: Should Donald Sterling Be Forced to Sell the Clippers?

To answer the question no he should not be forced to sell his team if he does not want to. The real question here is why was Chris Paul, Doc Rivers and the rest of the team not upset before they signed with the team? They're saying he had a prior history of racist actions before this tape came out why did all these players go there. Where was all this outrage for Mr. Sterling back in October when the season started if they knew he was such a bad guy already. Everyone is just jumping on the bandwagon right now because it seems like the cool thing to do. When in reality they're missing the whole point of what he was saying.

The last person I want to defend is Chris Paul after he decided my team wasn't "good enough" for him. However there's a difference between he said she said evidence and hearing it from the horse's mouth.


I'm sure Sterling never said those things to his players. It's not like Sterling said these things out in public. These were his private conversations being recorded. And again all his racial history while documented were never things he said in public. I would rather judge a person by the one I meet rather than the one people tell me about.