Donald Sterling Clippers owner alleged racist.

[Glenn Quagmire]

The LA chapter of the NAACP deserves the hypocrisy of the decade award. Imagine Al Sharpton and Sterling receiving the same award. Seems fitting at this point.

 

[700UW]

 
Dude, he is the company.

No he is a franchisee from the NBA.

 

[delldude]

No he is a franchisee from the NBA.

 
Nonetheless, he is the company.......he is the man................

 

[777 fixer]

Mirroring the Chinese methods of retaliation is OK with you?...
 

 
You must not have gotten the point I was trying to make.  When you say only in America do they seize your property I just pointed out there are a lot of countries that will do a lot more than that if they don't like what you say.

 

[777 fixer]

The difference is the NBA and the players aren't paying Sterling's salary. He's paying them. He bought the franchise, and pays into the NBA annually.

The allegations are that Sterling violated an established code of conduct, yet Sterling was no stranger to race allegations, and the league never took any action before this week?... Please. Reactionary. Over-reaching. And I'm sure there will be a lawsuit somewhere.

 
He is a franchise.  When you are a franchise who ever let you have said business can take that business away at anytime.  Whether that business is a McDonalds, a Ford dealership or an NBA team.

 

[777 fixer]

Wonder if the DA is going to press charges?
 
http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-recording-law

 

[southwind]

The LA chapter of the NAACP deserves the hypocrisy of the decade award. Imagine Al Sharpton and Sterling receiving the same award. Seems fitting at this point.

Yep! One's a "Racist, the other a "Race Pimp"!
 
No one ever talks about racism from the other side of the coin.
 
Larry Johnson was a junior college transfer who became the top star of the 1989-1991 Running Rebels of UNLV, leading them to two final four appearances and one championship. He later had a successful ten year NBA career with the Charlotte Hornets and the New York Knicks.  In 1993, Johnson signed what was at the time the most lucrative NBA contract in history -- $84 million over 12 years. Nevertheless Johnson apparently believes that  NBA players, despite their compensation levels,  are still slaves to their white masters, and wants a new all black league.  The idea for an all black league was Johnson’s initial angry reaction to the story that sports networks and sportswriters are now obsessing over, the racist comments of 80 year old Los Angeles Clippers’ team owner Donald Sterling.
 
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/04/an_all_black_basketball_league.html

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

Wonder if the DA is going to press charges?
 
http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-recording-law

$2500 and/or a year in jail. However, this could be costly for the lady:

"637.2. (a) Any person who has been injured by a violation of this
chapter may bring an action against the person who committed the
violation for the greater of the following amounts:
(1) Five thousand dollars ($5,000).
(2) Three times the amount of actual damages, if any, sustained by
the plaintiff.
( b ) Any person may, in accordance with Chapter 3 (commencing with
Section 525) of Title 7 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure,
bring an action to enjoin and restrain any violation of this chapter,
and may in the same action seek damages as provided by subdivision
(a).
( c )It is not a necessary prerequisite to an action pursuant to
this section that the plaintiff has suffered, or be threatened with,
actual damages."

Three times actual damages? Ouch.

 

[eolesen]

Oh, this is so far from over.

Both the ex-girlfriend and TMZ could be sued for civil damages, and I do expect that Sterling will be fighting the NBA in court.

I have zero expectation that the Los Angeles DA would bother to file criminal charges.

In court, Silver's ban and fine will wind up being largely unenforceable. You can't prohibit someone from being involved in a business they own. About the only thing they can do is block Sterling from participating in league meetings.

NBA can try to fight this, but since the tape was illegal, it's fruit of the poison tree; the ex-girlfriend's version can't be corroborated, since it was a private conversation, and absent admissible proof his conversation took place, the NBA can only point to hearsay.

Sterling's got deep enough pockets that this will get dragged out to the NBA's detriment. His lawyers won't care about the nature of what he said as long as the invoices get paid. Sorta like nobody really cared about his previous acts of racism as long as the checks he wrote to the NAACP and his Democrat candidates cleared the bank...

Make no mistake - the guy is a dirtbag, and he'll be dead before any of it gets resolved.

Meanwhile, you have Larry Johnson asking for "separate but equal" which is a 40 year step backward for civil rights...

 

[delldude]

$2500 and/or a year in jail. However, this could be costly for the lady:

"637.2. (a) Any person who has been injured by a violation of this
chapter may bring an action against the person who committed the
violation for the greater of the following amounts:
(1) Five thousand dollars ($5,000).
(2) Three times the amount of actual damages, if any, sustained by
the plaintiff.
( b ) Any person may, in accordance with Chapter 3 (commencing with
Section 525) of Title 7 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure,
bring an action to enjoin and restrain any violation of this chapter,
and may in the same action seek damages as provided by subdivision
(a).
( c )It is not a necessary prerequisite to an action pursuant to
this section that the plaintiff has suffered, or be threatened with,
actual damages."

Three times actual damages? Ouch.

 
Do it in Pa and its 10-20.

 

[777 fixer]

In court, Silver's ban and fine will wind up being largely unenforceable. You can't prohibit someone from being involved in a business they own. About the only thing they can do is block Sterling from participating in league meetings.
 

 
You can if it's a franchise.  

 

[Dog Wonder]

You'll hear outrage, apologies, a large donation made to some politically acceptable charity, and short of someone buying out his ownership stake, that will be about it. The NBA can fine or suspend him from "day to day operations" but that's about it. They can't force him out. Since the team is worth $575B, I doubt anyone will be stepping up to buy him out on impulse, and in the end, he'll still make money out of the deal.

Maybe you should bow out of the prediction business.

 

[777 fixer]

Make no mistake - the guy is a dirtbag, and he'll be dead before any of it gets resolved.

 

 
I'm thinking that the NBA is wishing they had done a better job vetting Mr. Sterling.

 

[delldude]

 
I'm thinking that the NBA is wishing they had done a better job vetting Mr. Sterling.

 
They didn't waste anytime vetting Limbaugh in the no fun league.

 

[delldude]

 

There can be no debate that the words of Mr. Sterling were reprehensible and disgusting. But how and why did these words come to light now, when his points of view were apparently well-known for many years?
It seems his “girlfriend,” Ms. Stiviano, decided to tape a private conversation between the two. Apparently, Ms. Stiviano had recently been sued by the estranged wife of Mr. Sterling, so there is some potential nefarious motive involved. Furthermore, the taping of a conversation without consent of the other party is illegal under California statute. There is some question as to whether he knew he was being recorded. Let’s assume for the moment he didn’t.
The national outrage against Mr. Sterling has come from an act that could be illegal and inadmissible in a court of law. Nevertheless, the court of public opinion has tried and convicted Mr. Sterling of being a jerk.

 

 

 

So where do we go from here?
Have we come to the point that private conversations can be taped and released in the public domain in order to ruin the livelihood –pursuit of happiness — of private citizens? Ms. Stiviano, or whomever, knew exactly what they wanted the end result to be as they released this tape to TMZ.
Is this the “new normal?” Is this a violation of our privacy rights? Ok, so what types of conversations occur in the privacy of the NBA locker rooms, or the homes of the players? Yes, this is indeed a slippery slope as Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban asserted.

 

 
http://allenbwest.com/2014/04/folks-youre-missing-point-donald-sterling/