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NBA owner fined and suspended

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by TigerVols, Apr 29, 2014.

  1. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Right. If an arbitrator or a court reduces it, Silver still pounded his chest for the players. Win Win for Silver.
     
  2. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    I can't believe how much this spun out of control for Sterling. I'll bet the ex threatened him with the tape and he thought, "Everybody in the league knows me, it will blow over." I mean, he's a piece of shit, but the fact that the recording didn't reveal a crime, only that the owner of an NBA team is a racist shitbag, and now he's banned for life...that's mind-boggling to me.
     
  3. EStreetJoe

    EStreetJoe Well-Known Member

    Silver seemed to be saying that since in all of those cases there was no finding (or admission) of guilt, they weren't brought into play. The Baylor suit was dismissed, the landlord discrimination lawsuits were settled without an admission of guilt. So the NBA apparently didn't do its due diligence and follow-up with its own investigations, and simply let the legal system rulings stand.
     
  4. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Working title for the movie:

    Rochelle Rochelle
     
  5. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Nope. Teams have managing partners who may or may not be the majority owner, and those managing partners are the only signatures that matter for league purposes. Once the league enacts that change, it's up to the managing partner to run the budget and the business.
     
  6. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Color me shocked, really. Suspended for life without a clear rules violation or criminal intent, just "for the good of the game?" Silver's a smart lawyer, but so is Sterling. He's lived most of his life in court. He'll extort whatever he can get from the League, and make the Silna deal look like lunch money.
     
  7. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Yes, but it's like Boom said. The final result may not be the important thing in this. It very well may be overturned. But tomorrow morning, the 84-point headlines are going to read that Donald Sterling was not deemed acceptable for the NBA.
     
  8. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    Silver had no choice. The only option really to keep this thing from spiraling. Intellectually, I'm not comfortable with the precedent, but he had really no other option.
     
  9. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    My point is that it's all well and good to ban him from "associating" with the team. It looks and sounds good.

    Enforcing that, however, seems to be a challenge, unless, of course, someone records a conversation with him.
     
  10. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Devil in details stuff. What had to happen today was more about perception.
     
  11. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Somewhat akin to a judge telling the jury to ignore x, y and z ...

    Shut off the WWL soon as Screamin' A showed up, but the issue of getting 3/4th owners' approval for a sale was up for discussion. Wouldn't voting against a sale = approval of Sterling? Of course, for some it may not pencil out.
     
  12. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    That's the "slippery slope" Cuban was talking about.

    I'm sure there have been some other owners over the years who could have lost teams on the three-quarters vote over bad behavior.
     
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