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He has to sell an appreciating asset which is now going to be a lot more valuable than someone else than it will be to him. Relatively speaking, that's a punishment.
He's 80.
It wasn't the NBA's job to punish him. They're not a criminal court. Silver acted to protect the interests of the other 29 owners, which is entirely appropriate.
Yeah. If Sterling would rather have the billion dollars than own the Clippers, he could have just sold them a month ago.
fypWhat time will Silver be announcing the punishment for Larry Johnson?
WE ARE ONE black league
He tweeted Silver is the owner of the team and personally he thinks he should have whoever he wants at the game. There that's aiding and abetting racism!
Bully.
No team inLA wants to win?
He doesn't have to sell. They're just going to take it away from him and sell it for him.
Worse. At least the Kobe thing might sell some more jerseys and tickets (if he can actually play). The fans detest D'Antoni.
Did the Lakers not meet expectations or something this year? Why is firing him a priority? Given the D league lineup they ran out there this year I thought they were unexpectedly competitive.
Not sure if Sterling is cool with Asians but Lin, Asik and McHale for Paul, Griffin and Rivers should work.
He did a lousy good job of tailoring his game plans to the personnel on hand - particularly the bigs.
I'm sure most of the other owners have preferred he be gone for a long time now, but they probably didn't think it was worth fight or the publicity. Most of the public didn't know or care what a POS he was. They do now.
It has to be, if they were only looking at this event alone, there is no way the punishment would be that severe. NBA is partially at fault here for not making him attend sensitivity training (that we know of) for his earlier offense.
I don't think all 31 other owners are squeaky clean and people talk. If you associate with a group of people for 20 years, you are bound to know things that others don't want public.
I don't know about fixing things, but he's definitely not any part of the rebuilding solution, particularly if they land a decent rookie. I don't trust him to develop a prospect. Also it seems like there might be some good coaches available in the offseason. It would suck to miss out on one of those guys because they're not willing to dump this joker.
Obviously, they know that and are fine taking that risk.
You know it's an amazing playoffs year when Grizzles-Thunder somehow has to get shuffled off to NBA TV.
I suspect most of the other 29 owners keep their laundry to themselves. Most successfully people don't get that way by doing stupid stuff. There are exceptions like Sterling.
I agree. I found it very offensive for all those players that he referred to them as being slave like, not just blacks. The part where he goes on about he's paying for their cars, homes, etc showed me more than the racist he is. I hope the clips have a large loud crowd tonight and win this game despite all this crap that hangs over their heads. Poor players and Doc.
Clippers sold over 95 percent of their tickets last year and are probably worth more in LA. Seriously doubt Seattle gets any play in this.
Just need to survive this Bulls run.
