"I wish I had just paid her off" - Donald Sterling, No F*cks Given

[Boyiee]

In the OP, it's her interview with Barbara WaWa. But I posted it because even though she looks very busted, she sounds very womanly.

[Dimmauk]

LMAO that chick is from San Antonio.

[Roranora]

Oh and he should care because he is being forced to give up the NBA franchise he owns

forced to profit about a billion

and always slay what you can, i wasn't hating.. i was just apparently supposed to be alarmed by her age of 31, as it appeared 3 or 4 times in his article. And I guessed he's 79. But we got just the meds for that.

[Anakron]

Does anybody have insights into how they can force him to sell? Unless team ownership is like leasing, then he really owns the team, right? I can understand that the league can vote the Clippers out of the league (at which point he should just sell), but I don't quite get how they can directly force him to sell what's really his, since that would suggest it wasn't really wholly his to start with.

And if they can, what if he only gets lowball offers (he won't, but hypothetically)? Would he be forced to take one of them?

[Roranora]

It's an NBA thingy-majigg that 75%+ ownership agreement can do much p much anything to any other single owner, regarding NBA franchise ownership.

I'm somewhat confident he will accept a pretty dank offer. You got Oprah and Money Mayweather salivating..

[Moss]

forced to profit about a billion

and always slay what you can, i wasn't hating.. i was just apparently supposed to be alarmed by her age of 31, as it appeared 3 or 4 times in his article. And I guessed he's 79. But we got just the meds for that.

What is a billion dollars to a billionaire? If he didn't care about owning the team he wouldn't be prepared to sue over it.

Does anybody have insights into how they can force him to sell? Unless team ownership is like leasing, then he really owns the team, right? I can understand that the league can vote the Clippers out of the league (at which point he should just sell), but I don't quite get how they can directly force him to sell what's really his, since that would suggest it wasn't really wholly his to start with.

And if they can, what if he only gets lowball offers (he won't, but hypothetically)? Would he be forced to take one of them?

All of the major sports leagues are allowed to operate differently than the average business for obvious reasons. The league can force him to sell because he is harming their collective interests. Franchises may compete on the court but it is not in any of their best interests for a franchise to fail. Having players and coaches striking to avoid playing for a racist owner is pretty much complete failure.

[Moss]

In the case that they only received lowball offers, which would never be the case because many rich people would like to own any NBA franchise, the league would likely run the team until they received a proper offer. The league did this recently with the Pelicans until Tom Benson agreed to buy them.

[Mistress Stowastiq]

I'm confused as to why Sterling apparently went to the 20/20 interview with her. I guess he cannot do without his "Personal Assistant"...

[6souls]

I'm confused as to why Sterling apparently went to the 20/20 interview with her.

He was also there for an interview, but backed out at the last minute due to being "unprepared." He also had an interview set-up with Anderson Cooper that he backed out of.

[Serra]

Does anybody have insights into how they can force him to sell? Unless team ownership is like leasing, then he really owns the team, right? I can understand that the league can vote the Clippers out of the league (at which point he should just sell), but I don't quite get how they can directly force him to sell what's really his, since that would suggest it wasn't really wholly his to start with.

And if they can, what if he only gets lowball offers (he won't, but hypothetically)? Would he be forced to take one of them?

The big thing about forcing him to sell now, in my opinion, highlights how this is not an issue about racism, but how his comments hurt the image of the league. You can have people like Rivers and Silver say that they never had concrete proof before, and now that they do they're acting, but that's not the case. This was an issue that got a lot of publicity and made the league look bad -- IE, risked damaging their profits. And it's the same reason I think it's a giant load of BS that everyone is so welcoming to his wife. Yes, she didn't recently get caught being a racist, but racism came out pretty clearly during the housing lawsuit a few years back.

But to answer your question, the NBA constitution gives them the right to do so -- if 3/4 of the owners agree to it, they can remove any owner. And by becoming an owner, he agreed to those rules, so realistically, he doesn't have any grounds to sue if they decide to remove him.

forced to profit about a billion

and always slay what you can, i wasn't hating.. i was just apparently supposed to be alarmed by her age of 31, as it appeared 3 or 4 times in his article. And I guessed he's 79. But we got just the meds for that.

So this goes back to the point I mentioned on the first page. He's definitely going to make a profit -- the Bucks just sold for 550 million, the Kings sold last year for 534 million, and the Hornets sold for 338 a few years back. However, if he cares about the profits, he shouldn't fight this. If he fights the league and stays the owner past the draft or even into next season, players are going abandon the team and devalue it. A lot of people have said though, what he likes most is being able to go to the games, sit courtside, be able to walk into the locker room, etc. So, like Moss said, this does not appear to be an issue of money.

[Roranora]

He'll know he's only got so much lead left in his pencil. He'll profit like a beast after having to sell his team. And he'll have to go to Greece to enjoy court-side seats again?

[Mistress Stowastiq]

He was also there for an interview, but backed out at the last minute due to being "unprepared." He also had an interview set-up with Anderson Cooper that he backed out of.

Ah ok so he didnt go "with" her he just was on the same property?

[Abandon]

so uh.... is she a tranny or no

[AidenCarby]

Let's go with yes.

[Moss]

I'd be surprised if she isn't at this point

[Roranora]

haha, I believe this has now been answered

[archibaldcrane]

What is a billion dollars to a billionaire? If he didn't care about owning the team he wouldn't be prepared to sue over it.

Well, his ownership of the Clippers is like half his net worth. He's estimated to be worth 1.9 billion - he probably wouldn't be a billionaire without the Clippers (or just barely).

[Moss]

Well, his ownership of the Clippers is like half his net worth. He's estimated to be worth 1.9 billion - he probably wouldn't be a billionaire without the Clippers (or just barely).

My point was that he doesn't want to give up the team, whether he profits a billion dollars off of the sale or not. Otherwise he would have already sold it.

[6souls]

Clippers President, Andy Roeser, to leave the team
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The president of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team has taken an indefinite leave of absence as the league prepares to force a sale.

A spokesman for the National Basketball Association (NBA) said Andy Roeser's departure would allow the team to "begin a clean slate".

Clippers owner Donald Sterling was banned from the sport for life after he was recorded making racist remarks.

The NBA advisory panel has agreed to begin the process of selling the team.

Mr Roeser has been employed by the Clippers for 30 years, working entirely under Mr Sterling's ownership.

As the recordings of Mr Sterling became public, Mr Roeser released a statement questioning whether the recordings were legitimate while at the same time apologising for comments in the recording about NBA legend Magic Johnson.

Clippers coach Doc Rivers said the statement upset many loyal Clippers employees who had been horrified by Mr Sterling's comments.

The NBA previously announced it would appoint a new chief executive to supervise the daily running of the team while the NBA draws up plans to sell the franchise.

A forced sale of the LA Clippers would require the approval of three-quarters of the 30 team owners in the NBA.

But Mr Sterling could oppose the sale in the courts, according to sports lawyers.

A number of celebrities have expressed interest in purchasing the sports team.

[notorious bum]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/179727...slippery-slope

Donald Sterling, Awful Sports Owners and the ‘Slippery Slope’
Dave Zirin on May 7, 2014 - 10:49 AM ET

Let's start with the obvious. Behind every great fortune is a great crime and, with the exception of the 364,122 owners of the Green Bay Packers, there's no owner in pro sports who does not have some blood under their buffed fingernails. This is a club of billionaires and that kind of money doesn't come from scratching Lotto tickets.

Let's also state the obvious and say that Donald Sterling is hardly the sole racist who calls the owner’s box his home. If you think he is, I have some Lady Gaga tickets at the Verizon Center to sell you. One person who works amongst the owners in major North American sport emailed me just to say, "I can tell you off the record about at least three of these guys who talk in a way straight from the Donald Sterling handbook."

But even though many owners are far from cuddly creatures and have taken part in “wealth building” exercises that make Sterling’s archipelago of slums look like a side project, we should not be cynical about what just took place in the NBA. In fact, we should embrace it.

History has been made with the banning of Donald Sterling. Dating back to the uprooting of Chavez Ravine to create Dodgers Stadium, we have seen professional sports use “eminent domain” to separate people from their property to build their sports cathedrals. Here we have Adam Silver and the NBA owners lining up to seize the property of Donald Sterling not only because he is an embarrassment and a bigot, but most critically, as NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said, because of a "pattern of behavior." (Sterling will of course be compensated to a far greater degree than those kicked out of their homes to build stadiums.)

That pointed reference to Sterling’s years as a slumlord immediately raises the issue of what Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban fearfully called the "slippery slope." As Cuban said, “If it’s about racism and we’re ready to kick people out of the league, OK? Then what about homophobia?… What about somebody who’s anti-Semitic? What about a xenophobe? In this country, people are allowed to be morons.” I can’t speak for Cuban, but given the billions in public dollars handed to owners in public financing, tax breaks and public trust, I don’t think it’s too much to ask that the owner of a franchise not be a raving bigot. But Cuban also of course pointedly ignores that Sterling was a bigot in word and deed. Mark Cuban is not, to use his language, “a moron.” The real fear that beats in his libertarian heart is that the harm caused by Donald Sterling’s business practices could be used against other owners as well. After all, if we start judging in the public square how billionaires make their money, few would dare to even leave their house.

If Donald Sterling’s slums make him unsuitable to own an NBA team, what do we say about the repeated chemical dumping practices of Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan? His company Flex-N-Gate has been cited for “39 violations of hazardous waste regulations over 20 years.” Workplace conditions at Khan's plants have routinely sent his employees to the hospital. Chemical dumping also has a long history of racism, as the neighborhoods with the least power get the dumping and the ensuing ill-health effects.

If Donald Sterling is a public embarrassment, what do you say about David Glass, owner of the Kansas City Royals and former CEO of Wal-Mart. In 1992, Dateline NBC broadcast damning scenes of Bangladeshi children slaving away at Wal-Mart products. When asked to defend this practice, Glass said simply, "You and I might, perhaps, define children differently.” He stomped out of the interview before answering why signs in Wal-Mart that said "Made in America" were hanging over goods made by Bangladeshi children. Yet David Glass remains.

If the NBA aims to welcome Jason Collins and have a league where homophobia is a thing of the past, how can it still have Dick DeVos as the owner of the Orlando Magic? DeVos has for four decades been the fundraiser in chief for the right wing edge of the Republican Party. His nonprofit, the DeVos Foundation, has pumped millions into groups that support radical “reparative gay therapy” and other "traditional" family values, as other members of the DeVos clan have also underwritten “the culture war” for the radical right. Ironically, all their free-marketeering and railing against “creeping socialism” didn’t stop them from taking hundreds of millions of dollars in public money for the new Orlando Magic arena. (DeVos is not the only free marketeer to use public financing to underwrite political pet causes, including the keeping of LGBT people in the closet. Ladies and Gentlemen, your Oklahoma City Thunder!)

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And then there is Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington football team. I’ve written about Snyder enough. Either we accept racism in sports or we oppose it. In the post-Sterling world, we have had politicians from Harry Reid to John McCain who have said that it is time for the name to change. Not only does Snyder clutch onto the team, but also does so like a cornered bobcat, lashing out at anyone who dares encroach on his precious brand. If Sterling’s racism has no place in sports, then the question of how the Washington football team can continue to be named after a slur becomes a crackling, livewire discussion.

Maybe Mark Cuban is correct. Maybe it is a slippery slope. And maybe, after so many years of billionaires living above any semblance of the law, this Donald Sterling moment is even bigger than we think. Maybe, this slope should be greased up and we should not be afraid to get behind the once untouchable owners in professional sports and give a little push.