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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 28, 2014 - 02:36pm PT
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The players should just let it be known that if the league doesn't promise to force him to give up his ownership, they'll stop playing. Not next year, but now. That should suit Mr. Sterling just fine, since he apparently isn't happy with black people at his games anyway.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Apr 28, 2014 - 02:39pm PT
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the players would give up tens of millions of dollars in pay?
and go back to....filing their resumes online with Home Depot
ok, probably can live until they die with the money they already have
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Apr 28, 2014 - 02:51pm PT
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I don't know how they measure this sort of thing, but it is said that his grilfriend is 1/2 black and 1/2 hispanic.
Maybe Shaq should arrest him. For what you ask?
Since when does a sheriff need a valid reason for arresting someone.
Edit:
Paul simon and Eide Brickell arrested
"Investigating officers gathered information and found probable cause to arrest" Simon, 72, and Brickell, 47, a police statement said.
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Apr 28, 2014 - 02:58pm PT
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I thought this summed it up well. From NPR
David West, the Indiana Pacers' power forward, provocatively characterized the exchange in a tweet:
Sterling basically articulated Plantation Politics...Make money off the Bucks/Lay with the Women/No Association in Public good or bad
— David West (@D_West30) April 26, 2014
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Apr 28, 2014 - 03:05pm PT
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He's gonna wish he could sell the team. Might be worth half or less soon if things keep going the way theay are. What would stop players to stop playing for him then give another franchise to someone else. His wouldn't be worth much.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 28, 2014 - 03:20pm PT
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Norton, those guys get paid regardless. Besides, they might all suddenly get 'hurt'.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Apr 28, 2014 - 03:41pm PT
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Norton, those guys get paid regardless. Doubt it.
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Apr 28, 2014 - 03:50pm PT
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I'm not so surprised an 80 year old LA attorney shot off his mouth like that. There's still that conservative, straight, white old guard who believes they call the shots for America lest this country will fail to be Home of the Brave. Got to keep the colords on the sidelines while the Sterling's rack in the green. Wanna hurt Sterling, go to the purse strings. He won't let go of ownership without a protracted legal struggle, I'd wager. Guys like that accord themselves more rights than they deserve. He'll go to his grave never knowing that the world marched past him when he wasn't looking.
Adios, Don. You're done.
JL
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Banks
Trad climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Apr 28, 2014 - 04:01pm PT
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The Clippers are a franchise of the NBA. The owners have the right to force him to sell the team. Just like if you owned a McDonald's and were doing crazy s**t that corporate McDonald's didn't like. The problem is that it will probably require legal action which will cost millions and take years to resolve. I imagine the NBA will try to pressure him to step down, but doubt Sterling will go quietly.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Apr 28, 2014 - 04:44pm PT
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He'll go quietly and quickly. Because the advertisers are already fleeing in droves. The list of companies who've already abandoned them is impressive...like rats fleeing a sinking ship.
State Farm, Car Max, Kia, Virgin, RedBull, Amtrak, Corona, all canned or suspended their relationships.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Apr 28, 2014 - 04:45pm PT
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"Goodness, gracious, sakes alive"
-John Wooden
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Apr 28, 2014 - 05:17pm PT
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being in his high money position he should not say stupid things.
he's okay to think it but not say it!
idiot!
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Apr 28, 2014 - 05:20pm PT
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The Clippers are a franchise of the NBA. The owners have the right to force him to sell the team. Just like if you owned a McDonald's and were doing crazy s**t that corporate McDonald's didn't like. The problem is that it will probably require legal action which will cost millions and take years to resolve. I imagine the NBA will try to pressure him to step down, but doubt Sterling will go quietly.
If someone owned a McD's franchise, and a private call in which that person made racist comments was leaked to the press, I don't know what would happen. As with the Sterling situation, it would depend to large extent on what the franchise agreement said.
But absent some clear contractual right, it's not self evident that McD's could do anything.
And I'm not sure I see a contractual provision that says "if you get caught making private statements that were recorded without your knowledge and they get leaked and you were being racist, then you have to sell if we want you too . . . "
(Obviously the provisions would be general rather than specific as I wrote, but I'm not so sure that it's likely that there would be general provision that pick up what were intended to be, and ordinarily would would be, private private statements.)
I agree that the NBA and/or the public at large may make Sterling's ownership untenable, but that doesn't mean the NBA can necessarily exert legal pressure.
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hb81
climber
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Apr 28, 2014 - 05:56pm PT
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What a piece of human garbage. Was it his girlfriend who actually leaked this? Sounds like a private conversation with nobody else present?
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Apr 28, 2014 - 06:00pm PT
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Corporate sponsors started to distance themselves from the Los Angeles Clippers Monday after a tape surfaced over the weekend of the team's owner Donald Sterling allegedly making racist remarks.
In a statement provided to The Huffington Post Monday, Carmax, a used car chain, confirmed it would cut ties with the team, ending a nine-year partnership. Virgin America also confirmed to HuffPost that it would end its sponsorship with the Clippers, noting that the company continues to "support the fans and the players." A Mercedes-Benz spokeswoman also wrote in an email to HuffPost that the company "has moved to cease its sponsorship of the Clippers effective immediately."
Brands that have terminated their relationships with the Clippers: Carmax, Virgin America and Mercedes-Benz.
Insurance giant State Farm, carmaker Kia, AQUAhydrate, a company that sells enhanced water, energy drink Red Bull, as well as Sprint are all reportedly suspending their sponsorships with the team. LoanMart, an auto title loan company, also wrote on its Facebook page that it's suspending its advertising and marketing relationship with the Clippers and monitoring the situation. In addition, Yokohama Tire Corporation is suspending its sponsorship, company announced in a statement.
"CarMax finds the statements attributed to the Clippers' owner completely unacceptable. These views directly conflict with CarMax's culture of respect for all individuals," a CarMax spokeswoman wrote in an email to HuffPost. "While we have been a proud Clippers sponsor for 9 years and support the team, fans and community, these statements necessitate that CarMax end its sponsorship."
Brands that have suspended their relationships with the Clippers: State Farm, Kia, AQUAhydrate, Red Bull, Sprint, LoanMart, Yokohama Tire Corporation and Corona.
CarMax's decision just hours after Steve Stoute, the CEO of marketing firm Translation, which represents State Farm, told ESPN radio that the insurance giant will be pulling its sponsorship as well.
"What I'm going to do and what I think is important from my side is I'm telling the brands immediately 'let's pull sponsorship' starting with State Farm," Stoute said. "When you have things like this taking place, somebody has to stand up."
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Apr 28, 2014 - 06:01pm PT
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Still don't know sh#t about basketball, but in '99/'00 spent a year at the NBA broadcast studios in NYC running the on-site Intel team that put the playoffs and finals on the net for the first time. From what I saw on the technical/programming side of things it appeared the NBA has wide latitude to impose its will on the franchises.
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CA.Timothy
climber
California
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Apr 28, 2014 - 07:07pm PT
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The Clippers are the private property of Sterling. The NBA cannot force him to sell. If indeed the NBA forces him out instead of a combination of external pressures, Sterling has the bankroll to sue the sh#t out of the NBA and in a legal sense, he would most likely win. Luckily, with the advent of the viral video and the internet, Sterling's days are numbered.
EDIT: Part of the conditions of his ownership of the franchise is the right to use NBA logos etc
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Apr 28, 2014 - 07:09pm PT
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V. says she's not his girlfriend, but rather his arhcivist. He does look like he's getting old enough to be losing his memory. In any event at least she surfs.
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CA.Timothy
climber
California
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Apr 28, 2014 - 07:11pm PT
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bankruptcy (as with New Orleans in 2010) and instances of gambling are the only two types of incidents where the NBA can force out an owner
EDIT: The only two types of incidents where the lawyers for the NBA would even allow them to remove an owner
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Apr 28, 2014 - 07:14pm PT
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Sterling is probably getting a brush on the side from her
regardless, can't see how any private team owner can be "forced" to sell anything
this is a 72 hour media event, next up who knows, maybe Rand Paul will puke in his shoes.....
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