donald sterling is a horrible person

fact

I dunno I think he's kinda cool

we will just have to agree to disagree

he looks like he sleeps in a humidor
his skin is like paper

i heard he is the one who killed the bees

also

his name is on every fucking building on the street where my office is (wilshire blvd)

burnit down

my two cents:

donald sterling is a horrible person

thanks for reading.

He's a coward and doesn't even smoke crack.

donald sterling? more like donald bad

i looked up antonyms for sterling

The Marge Schott of the NBA.

i would not spend a single british pound sterling in support of donald sterling

maybe if schott actually practiced genocide. otherwise sterling is much worse.

tbf pretty much all team owners are horrible people, if less obviously so

donald s. clover (sorry).

heat wore their jerseys inside out during warmups tonight.

blazers owner, paul allen: We at the Trail Blazers reject any and all such sentiments, and believe NBA leadership should take swift and impactful action in this case.

rockets owner, leslie alexander: Calling the comments "disgusting," Alexander said he told Silver he should stab "a sword" into the heart of Sterling's ownership of the Clippers.

Donald Tokowitz Sterling (born Donald Tokowitz; April 26, 1934) is an American business magnate and former attorney. He is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Sterling acquired the Clippers in 1981 for $12.5 million.

Dude's going to turn 12.5 million into 1 billion dollars in his worst case scenario. #blessed

aw, we missed his birthday

glad we have a separate thread now

here's lester munson on silver's options: http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/10852199/challenge-donald-sterling

FWIW 12.5 mil in 1981 dollars is ~325 million dollars today

nooo its 32.5 million

Haha yeah sorry

Well that's a nice ROI

and probably like 50% of it is due to having the #1 draft pick in 2009

i don't really get why this is so huge? i can name like four nba owners and even i knew that he was a colossal racist asshole (and terrible owner) for 30 years. everyone knew this. why was shitting on elgin baylor for years acceptable?

not that the response isn't deserved, i just wonder why *now*.

also fuc turning jerseys inside out -- don't play. what's the league going to do, bring in scabs for the rest of the playoffs?

I don't know why this one's the big one but I'm glad that it is big

feel like it cld be indicative of a wider cultural shift someone on twitter today said something like "the message of brady and sterling is your racist friend isnt ok anymore"

yeah the world just isn't the same as it was the last time sterling did something outrageously racist that was made public and that's a good and comforting thing.

even though his exploits w/ his residential complexes were well known, he always did the wink-wink-deny-everything did, but this shit is recorded on tape, basically blatantly documenting his prejudices for all to see and no claim of deniability* this time.

but yeah, he should have been gone ages ago and whatever gets him there, I am fine with.

*except him and the organization are, of course, now trying to say the tapes were 'doctored'....

lester munson article was interesting, silver has a lot more power than i think most ppl assumed

Yeah I mean I think rather than say "why is this so huge now" we should be saying "it's a good sign that this is huge now"

re: "why now?", caught on tape saying undeniably fucked up racist shit is just tons more compelling and damning evidence than anything previous. it's like if there was new tape of OJ going "yeah I killed that bitch so what" and people being all "confused", "why now all the OJ pitchforkin mobbin??"

wut

Sterling isn't comparable to OJ ... even though they're probably friends

I just compared them. pro tip, 2 situations or people don't need to be 100% or even 5% the same in order for valid comparisons to be made.

Oh I didn't know there was a pro in here

When [current Blazers assistant coach] Kim Hughes, then an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers, was found to have prostate cancer on the eve of training camp in 2004, he learned what it was like to work in Donald Sterling's world.

Hughes wanted to postpone surgery. The disease ran in the family, usually slowly. But after Coach Mike Dunleavy encouraged Hughes to get another opinion, the second doctor urged Hughes to have surgery quickly. When Hughes contacted the Clippers about his health insurance coverage, he was told the surgery was not covered. If they made an exception for him, they would have to do so for everyone.

The cost would be $70,000.

Hughes went ahead and had the surgery anyway. Unknown to him, four players - Chris Kaman, Corey Maggette, Elton Brand and Marko Jaric - chipped in to cover Hughes's cost for the operation.

I think Matt may have alluded to this earlier but it's a story I hadn't heard before. Donald Sterling is a horrible person.

Q: Can Silver force Sterling to say whether the voice on the tapes is his?

A: Yes. Under the terms of Paragraph 24(m)(ii) of the "constitution" that governs the 30 owners of NBA teams and establishes the authority of the owners' commissioner, Silver can require Sterling to respond under oath to questions. The commissioner has "the right to require testimony and the production of documents and other evidence from any Member." As an owner, Sterling is a "member" of the NBA. Sterling and his lawyers could delay answering questions from Silver, but if Sterling refuses to admit or to deny that it is his voice on the tapes, he is in violation of the constitution and would face termination. He has no protection from the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment guarantee against self-incrimination, because he is not facing any charge of any crime

Q: What penalties can Silver issue?

A: Under the provisions of the bylaws, Silver has two sets of powers that he may use. Under either, he can issue a lifetime suspension and a substantial fine. Under Paragraph 24(l) of the constitution that was adopted by the NBA owners on Oct. 26, 2005, he can issue a fine of up to $2.5 million, can suspend an owner indefinitely and can order the forfeiture of draft picks.

...
In another provision, Paragraph 35(A)(c), Silver can issue an indefinite suspension and a fine of $1 million to any owner who "makes ... a statement having or designed to have an effect prejudicial or detrimental to the best interests of basketball."

Q: Is it possible for Silver and the NBA to terminate Sterling's franchise ownership?

A: Yes. Under the terms of Paragraph 13 of the constitution, the owners can terminate another owner's franchise with a vote of three-fourths of the NBA Board of Governors, which is composed of all 30 owners.

another NBA owner suggested an interesting penalty, designed to use "soft-power" to pressure sterling to sell the clippers.

Like Cuban, Alexander interpreted the NBA constitution to not allow the commissioner to have the power to remove an owner except for gambling. However, Alexander said he suggested to Silver that all the Clippers players could be given the option to become free agents after this season, a step toward driving Sterling out of the league.

FWIW, while I thought it was a little weird that Kareem focused so much on how the person who made the tape should be arrested, he is technically correct. California requires all parties consent to recording, and a violation appears to be a misdemeanor offense. Still kind of odd that he focused so much on that.

I don't think he focused on it to any strange degree. He gives it two paragraphs in order to support his point that the "making and release of this tape are so sleazy" and that we probably should have been outraged over sterling's earlier offenses, which were more substantial and acquired through less sleazy means. It is the same point others have made on ILX, and it is OTM. There's nothing odd about it.

re: what was link that someone posted about how other the NBA has other dickface owners? Anyway, Cuban knows what's up:

"Again, there's no excuse for his positions. There's no excuse for what he said. There's no excuse for anybody to support racism. There's no place for it in our league, but there's a very, very, very slippery slope."

did they analyze the tape for his vocal cord infra-red frequencies yet

I heard they dusted it for DNA.

these argyle socks signify my silent protest of ur (alleged) ignorance

if they don't force him out i'll wear my elbow pad upside down!

i bet he gets the lifetime suspension and the max 2.5 mill fine and he'll sell the team during the offseason

they send joey crawford to his house

he will be suspended in a tub of goo for life. little kids will throw popcorn at him.

I don't think he focused on it to any strange degree. He gives it two paragraphs in order to support his point that the "making and release of this tape are so sleazy" and that we probably should have been outraged over sterling's earlier offenses, which were more substantial and acquired through less sleazy means. It is the same point others have made on ILX, and it is OTM. There's nothing odd about it.

― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:09 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw the recording was completely just if not legal

if they don't force him out i'll wear my elbow pad upside down!

― am0n, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:25 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i suspect pretty hard the owners dont want to create a prescient here, cuban said as much and hes pretty liberal and forward thinking relative to the rest

You couldn't even call this guy's obv attitude "an open secret," it was more established than that. He's like Marge Schott w/ the Reds 20-25 years ago, only the culture hadn't evolved to make her pay the PR cost (permanently) at that point.

yup

being reported now that doc will quit of sterling sticks around

really curious to see how sterling reacts to all this, hes got fuck you money and hes a fuck you guy

also really curious to hear someone ask doc what he thought of sterlings pervious misdeeds when he took the job

not sure he could show his face in public anymore, let alone a Clips game.

wasnt doc basically traded?

ha yes

whats steve blake's take on all of this

http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/29/donald-sterling-clippers-nba-commissioner-punishment-indefinite-suspension

amorosotom 1 day ago
About Sterling... He's a lawyer who sues at the drop of a hat and believes in litigation battles to get out of a contract. He's not a very nice human.

sherirocket62 1 day ago
@amorosotom Of course he sues at the drop of a hat. He's a Jew !!

lol @ dealwithit shades

http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/04/29/0429-donald-sterling-nba-getty-3.jpg

looks like a "slap on the wrist" was right. unconfirmed nbc report says indefinite suspension and 5M fine.

Lifetime Ban!

banned 4 lyfe

and 2.5 mill fine (max)

I like it

recommended forced sale

TMZ got that shit pretty wrong

nuclear option in effect

awesome imo

Daaaaaamn

wow

next ban dolan

haha wow

i would not fuck with silver, he's got spindly evil genius vibes

Fuck you Fox News hack at press conference.

Charles ‏@Ugarles 1m
"I can't speak to specific past actions [that were not taken while I was the second-in-command at the National Basketball Association]."

lifetime ban = physical presence at games?

at games, in offices, as a part of the bball operation

let's remember this is the right thing being done solely for bottom-line reasons

yeah man he's banished from everything NBA related

i guess the point is to force him to sell?

next ban dolan

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:21 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just saying I hope this creates a precedential slippery slope so they can ban dolan

let's remember this is the right thing being done solely for bottom-line reasons

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:27 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you accusing the NBA of being a business? I thought it was a public trust.

let's remember this is the right thing being done solely for bottom-line reasons

Got to, man, this America.

let's remember this is the right thing being done solely for bottom-line reasons

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:27 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn morbs didnt know you had access to adam silvers mind, tell us more

i guess the point is to force him to sell?

― k3vin k., Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:27 AM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was said by Silver directly yes

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 4m

Several groups with desire to purchase Clippers are already stepping forward, with a bidding war expected to exceed $1 billion for Clippers.

lolz 4eva

oh all of a sudden Adam Silver remembers the previous allegations about Sterling

I like the way Silver is carrying himself here, seems like not such a bad guy, although he probably is a bad guy given that he's the commissioner of the NBA

must be, no way hes just another falible person like the rest of us, *sniff* too bad he doesnt have moral x-ray vision like message board posters

lol

really dumb question about Jewishness -- who did that guy write for?

(or what tv station was he from, or w/e)

NRO sez Dems.

sports on earth

oh wow, he just basically made it sound like the forced sale was already all but a done deal -- he said he "fully expects" to get the support he needs to remove him, didn't even leave the possibility open.

Banned for lyfe is some sweet smackdown but sadly that probably means 2-5 years in this case

Though as we've noted these hate fueled ultrarich dudes always seem to live to 105

adam silver WINS!

xp powered by souls

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let's remember this is the right thing being done solely for bottom-line reasons

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:27 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, it's almost as if being a gross racist isn't good for business

Man I wish he had brought a gavel with him to bang on the podium

GTFO sterling *thunk*

let's remember this is the right thing being done solely for bottom-line reasons

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:27 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, it's almost as if being a gross racist isn't good for business

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:41 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its weird how things rarely fit nicely into ridged self serving moral frameworks

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhcrr3oj4X1qzz5dx.jpg

XD

what a difference a day makes

@mcuban: I agree 100% with Commissioner Silvers findings and the actions taken against Donald Sterling

ha lol

www.clippers.com

There was one part where he was talking about the tape and he goes "I've known Donald Sterling for 20 years" and I'm like fuck no dude do not do the "shocked" song and dance, and then he goes "and I thought it was probably him."

I don't know the name Adam Silver, goon

always figure Larry O'Brien and Pete Rozelle are still commishes

www.clippers.com

― k3vin k., Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:46 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow

larry obrian is just a trophy now morbs

Do you think Sterling's name will stay up on all them buildings he owns

roger mason jr, man! vice president of the npba
steve nash also present. KAJ!

nba shd force sterling to sell then collude with the bidders to lowball him

tyson chandler.
only guys on vacation : P

Knicks owner James Dolan applauds the decision, says "we as a league must stand together in condemning this ignorance."

*blues lick*

damn, that clippers.com site!
NBA decided to come hard with this.
Can't even be cynical about it: good for the league.

oh wow, he just basically made it sound like the forced sale was already all but a done deal -- he said he "fully expects" to get the support he needs to remove him, didn't even leave the possibility open.

Which I take to means he's talked to all the owners and at least 75% said they'd vote to oust Sterling.

Any cynical thought that pops into my head about this is tempered by "it wasn't that long ago that they wouldn't have even done something like this cynically"

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 1m
On ownership super majority needed to vote Sterling out, one Board of Governor tells Yahoo: "Adam has the votes - all of them, I believe."

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10857580/donald-sterling-los-angeles-clippers-owner-receives-life-ban-nba

Hurting I think u have been killing it recently, keep it up my man.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3520643610001/jim-gray-donald-sterling-says-clippers-not-for-sale/#sp=show-clips

damn, my non-basketball-watching mom just called to talk about this
primary message was "i remember 25 years ago this would've been no issue at all"
she was kinda excited

Do you think Stern misses being commish?

dreaming about how he wouldve swept this all under the rug

/adam-silver-says-u-rong-don

xp ty leee

next ban dolan

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:21 PM

http://www.latostadora.com/generados/tiendas/2753/dibujos/121719.jpg

Dan Snyder is the worst now I guess, but the Magic owner is really special too.

jim gray is on fox news now? lol what a perfect fit

i think the r-skins thing is actually worse since it's embedded into the culture of the NFL so deeply that it's more difficult to dislodge. sterling said horrible things but the NBA just straightaway booted him. the NFL has all their whining about tradition and "it's a difficult issue".

http://creativeforensic.com/Arlo%20ABC2.jpg

"it's not him"

honestly all the credit in the world to silver and the league (love that mark cuban is already toeing the line) but this would have been a hell of a lot more interesting if the comments came from one of their 40 year old venture capitalist owners rather than one of their 80 year old got in on the ground floor owners.

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG will be forced to change the name when they get to the conference finals/superbowl and the NFL gets too embarrassed about this shit
the more in the national public eye they are for non sports fans the more likely it changes

40-year-old VC dudes who think this stuff are a lot less likely to say it as openly and in as uncouched terms as he did, even in private.

well yes, i genuinely believe he is the only owner who is this dumb

just saying that if any of the 30 can be leveraged out of existing, sterling tops the list

i think the r-skins thing is actually worse since it's embedded into the culture of the NFL so deeply that it's more difficult to dislodge. sterling said horrible things but the NBA just straightaway booted him. the NFL has all their whining about tradition and "it's a difficult issue".

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:39 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh I mean Snyder is just a horrible person in general, the team name is just one thing

so will the Andy Roesner backpedal on his paycheck-protecting Sterling-supportive comments from the other day, or is he gonna have a Bodyguard moment and carry Sterling off in his arms?

LeBron's response(s) to all this has made me realize I've gone from actively disliking him to really liking him. Lebron is not a horrible person!

i had forgotten exactly what Schott's punishments were. talk about recidivism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Schott#Controversies

lebron is a super chill bro, i just wish he'd brought his pals wade and bosh to cleveland but then again speaking of shitty owners...

xp he's taken his talents... to your heart

http://ballislife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/trollface.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152414099224887&id=35285954886

frankie muniz weighs in

@mollyesque
Nate Silver’s former partner -> RT @nachofiesta: A Silver I can respect.

silver should have walked off the podium doing the sam cassell dance

Zach Lowe ‏@ZachLowe_NBA 28m
League sources say Silver/league, not Sterling, would control Clips sales process in event Silver gets the required 3/4 vote to force it.

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 35m
Bottom line: There isn't a franchise that could withstand public backlash of failing to vote w/ Adam Silver on Donald Sterling's ouster.

Arash Markazi ‏@ArashMarkazi 26m
Clippers won't be issuing a statement from Donald Sterling. "He's not a part of the team anymore."

So many owners are coming out echoing Cuban's "100% suppport" for Silver's decision; I can't see any of them choosing to stand in the way of forcing Sterling to sell if only for the backlash they'd get.

xp yep Woj bottom line otm

as i just read elsewhere, this is how you run a cartel

haha i was thinking the same thing

Would really like to read a good longform piece on his tenure with the Clips now. Seems like that will probably happen.

uh the clippers are FIVE HUNDRED PLUS games below .500 as a franchise. If they repeated this season over and over again they'd hit .500 in 2030.

good christ

also a lot of credit should go to the players, i haven't seen the nbpa press conference but i guess roger mason basically said all the playoff teams were gonna boycott if silver didn't come out like this

LeBron's response(s) to all this has made me realize I've gone from actively disliking him to really liking him. Lebron is not a horrible person!

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, April 29, 2014

don't be fooled . . .

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/371/430/f8e.gif

The thing that disturbs me most about the tape is that Sterling mainly seems to be upset because others in his circle were giving him grief for his mistress associating with black people. I assume this circle is nothing but rich white guys. Who are still alive and still in power and still racist as fuck. Barf.

uh the clippers are FIVE HUNDRED PLUS games below .500 as a franchise. If they repeated this season over and over again they'd hit .500 in 2030.

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Right, they were shitty as fuck most of the time and he was notoriously cheap with them. All the more reason I feel like this would make an entertaining story.

this will be an interesting, likely public, fight. sterling: "clippers not for sale."

Kinda bummed all those guys are gonna still be on the Clippers next year

xp ftr he said that before silver's announcement

that's right. but i'm sure he said it knowing the possibility existed that silver would try to force him out.

clearly not much love lost between sterling and the rest of the owners, not so much as a single hes a good guy but... in the run up to this

Would really like to read a good longform piece on his tenure with the Clips now. Seems like that will probably happen.

This is pretty old and I don't remember if I've ever read it but: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1018960/1/index.htm?eref=sircrc

it doesn't matter. Silver has supermajority of owners. The by-laws are clear. He's gone.

Bahaha, yes!
http://i.cdn.turner.com/sivault/si_online/covers/images/2000/0417_large.jpg

forbes article has an interesting perspective on sterling's likely reactions.

Sterling has yet to respond but people who are sure that he now must sell, take his $750 million profit and go (he bought the team in 1981 for $13 million, reportedly assuming $11 million in obligations, paying $2 million in cash), don’t know Donald.

Insiders say he had to be talked out of attending Sunday’s loss to the Warriors in Oakland and doesn’t comprehend his predicament. A source told me he called Coach Doc Rivers to explain, but Rivers refused to discuss the matter.

We’re not talking about everyday denial. This is someone who can tell his girlfriend, V. Stiviano—that’s what she was actually called—who describes herself as “black and Mexican,” not to “broadcast” a photo she took with Magic Johnson or bring African-Americans to Clipper games … where she often sat next to Sterling in the seat that would be otherwise occupied by Shelly Sterling.

Sterling has great tolerance for chaos — he seems to revel in it. Alexandra Castro, the young woman he sued in 2004 when he acknowledged paying for sex, portraying her as a $500-a-night prostitute, is still often a guest at Clipper games.

“Donald’s not wired to let all this in,” said a former staffer. “I’ll bet he’s preparing to sue the league for devaluing his franchise. The thing he’s mad about is that nobody is using the T in his name.”

Sterling, born Donald Tokowitz, the son of a pushcart peddler in hardscrabble Boyle Heights, is now Donald Tokowitz Sterling. I lampooned him in open letters for 20 years in the Los Angeles Times and the only thing he ever complained about, aside from telling me, “I didn’t understand what you meant,” was the first one when I left out the T.

Not that Sterling doesn’t have some defenders, or at least one. Noted Donald Trump, who presumably knows whereof he speaks: “He got set up by a very, very bad girlfriend. Let’s face it. She’s the girlfriend from Hell.”

i think the r-skins thing is actually worse since it's embedded into the culture of the NFL so deeply that it's more difficult to dislodge. sterling said horrible things but the NBA just straightaway booted him. the NFL has all their whining about tradition and "it's a difficult issue".

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 3:39 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fucking seriously, and goddamn CHIEF WAHOO, too. i don't know whether the http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG name or the wahoo mascot is worse. i'm from cleveland and it's just an embarrassment.

I mean let's face it

The by-laws are clear. He's gone

Sterling might conceivably cook up a suit to challenge the legality of the NBA owners' agreement and seek a stay on the basis of 'irreparable harm' if he's forced to sell. If he succeeds in dragging this into court, he could hang onto the franchise for years. Otherwise, he's out of there as soon as the owners can vote on it.

sounds like he's contemplating a lawsuit to allege the nba is driving down the current market value of his franchise. theoretically, that's a potentially viable claim that he might be able to bring outside of the nba's constitution.

“Donald’s not wired to let all this in,” said a former staffer. “I’ll bet he’s preparing to sue the league for devaluing his franchise. The thing he’s mad about is that nobody is using the T in his name.”

Sterling, born Donald Tokowitz, the son of a pushcart peddler in hardscrabble Boyle Heights, is now Donald Tokowitz Sterling. I lampooned him in open letters for 20 years in the Los Angeles Times and the only thing he ever complained about, aside from telling me, “I didn’t understand what you meant,” was the first one when I left out the T.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:29 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao “I didn’t understand what you meant,”

That suit would get dismissed quickly.
/ilh legal analyst

someone should change the thread title ("donald t. sterling is a horrible person").

lol

seems like a few days ago franchise was valued at $545 mil and now it's close to a billion, talk of "bidding war" too...can't see any claims of NBA driving price down going anywhere.

xp lol cosign.

http://riseandfired.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/FMunizClips.png

please make this happen

NBA Legion ‏@MySportsLegion 1h -- P-Diddy has expressed interested in purchasing the Clippers.

seems like a few days ago franchise was valued at $545 mil and now it's close to a billion, talk of "bidding war" too...can't see any claims of NBA driving price down going anywhere.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was forbes pretend estimate, seeing as the bucks just sold for that much people are doing their own estimating

support diddy ownership 5000%

new protest under way

http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/files/import/i-b4df874be7677c8b9eadde855fabeb42-sam_cassell_2.jpg

That suit would get dismissed quickly.

Since it's a voluntary association he entered into and a contract he knowingly signed, unless he comes up with a novel argument that a judge found interesting for broader reasons, I agree. But I do expect him to try and lord knows a clever lawyer can tie things up in knots once a lawsuit is in play.

i'm no pacers fan, but david west seems like a good guy.

Cassell pic is him getting ready to reveal the second-biggest bust in the room oops wrong thread.

not sure, at all, i agree with the notion that a lawsuit for diminished franchise value would be so easily and quickly dismissed. it might, but it's a very complicated analysis, to some extent turning on language in instruments that aren't publicly available.

should get a black owner, black coach from south bronx, all white players from Malibu

P Diddy brings his date to lockerroom to admire Redick's "beautiful white body"

guiltylol

Same.

damn...

David West ✔ @D_West30
Sterling basically articulated Plantation Politics...Make money off the Bucks/Lay with the Women/No Association in Public good or bad

<3

http://deadspin.com/in-10-minutes-espns-bomani-jones-lays-waste-to-the-ste-1569195989

damn...

David West ✔ @D_West30
Sterling basically articulated Plantation Politics...Make money off the Bucks/Lay with the Women/No Association in Public good or bad

― am0n, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Did a slight double-take at "Bucks" before I realized what he meant

bomani jones otm, but still, now some people ARE paying more attention to all the other stuff Donald Sterling did because of this, and also, I think this incident stuck much more because of his past. Like if some other owner had just made isolated racist statements IDK if the NBA would be forcing him to sell.

the spin that right-wingers are putting on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's comments about this is really disgusting to me.

I feel like I'm not even sure I want to know what spin that is.

But now I am hearing the harsh imagined sound of "KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR" as intoned by Sean Hannity ringing out over and over again.

oof that Bomani Jones rant was super OTM

the substantive angry parts, but also the "you can sleep with black men, just don't pictures of yourself with them on Instagram" clowning because I have been nonstop marveling at that since this story broke

xp NRO is a shitty stupid place but even there a few writers basically said as much as any other reasonable person would, re: both sterling and cliven bundy's comments last week

I expect to see lots of stupid internet comments about how Sterling is being deprived of his "property rights" from commenters who don't understand contracts.

have been v busy today and couldn't check in but this is deeply cool and just.

honestly proud of adam silver. in the like 20+ years I've been following the league I've become conditioned to assume the right thing being done about a given situation was an extreme rarity. the new regime is ostensibly offering hope here. and that's cool.

let's remember this is the right thing being done solely for bottom-line reasons

textbook Morbs here but gotta call bullshit due to the "solely" in there. I have no doubt that many NBA people, from Silver to other owners to dudes who parks players' cars, were for real appalled by Sterling's audio.

"fuck yes, we finally can get this racist asshole out of our association" vs "oh fuck well I guess we'll have to bow to public pressure and get rid of good ol Donald T Sterling"

someone I know confused this situation w/ the ole McCourt's one the other day and was waxing about how they wree going to sell the team when his wife owns half.

whatever ulterior motives they have, the end result was what the players wanted, and the league needed. Kudos, overall, to the ousting of the guy who once placed a Black History month ad in the paper the day after it ended.

someone I know confused this situation w/ the ole McCourt's one the other day and was waxing about how they wree going to sell the team when his wife owns half.

― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 6:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait forgot about Cali community property law

This was fantastic news to wake up to

Rooting for the Clippers the rest of these playoffs

whoa whoa whoa

lets not get carried away

yeah cliff paul is still a real thing lets not forget

plus LA

I'd love the Clips to finally be relevant, all for 'em.

though part of me wants a Hawks-Dallas "all 8 seed" final

so it appears that Sterling authorized the recording? Hope that's the case, cause already nauseated by people banging on about privacy and "if someone took 10 minutes of your worst phone call..." and "people should have the right to express their views in private" etc

p sure even the ten minutes of our worst telephone calls are fuckin rosy and flowery compared to his

but he was baited! by a golddigger!

wait I spoke too soon...

" It doesn'tmatter if he wanted his conversation taped. It is stll private in case you haven't figured that out.. The guy is a registered democrat so it fgures he has hidden agendas.
Reply ·
· 1 · 2 hours ago"

So even if he authorized the recording, he expected it to be private so this is all very wrong and PC GONE MAD, plus THOUGHT CRIME

dumb people who think they're smart are just the worst

t'aint nothing private when it comes to the fuckin NBA Code of Conduct...so kiss the zero rings, BITCH

besides what these Yahoo Commenters really mean is "I secretly have viewpoints similar to mr. sterling and this criticism of him feels a wee bit too close to home"

Granny, what is your guy even arguing? That Sterling is both the victim and up to no good?

well there's already a website that has pointed out that Sterling has donated lots of money to Democrats in recent years, trying to insinuate that the media is painting him as a 'stereotypical racist Republican' when he's really ONE OF YOU GUYS.

y'know even though nobody invoked anything remotely political until they brought it up but hey w/e

Link please. Everything I've read has said that he made two or three small donations a long time ago.

he is a registered republican fwiw

Oh wait I get it, Sterling approved the recording because he has hidden agendas.

seen something similar to this a bunch too:

"I’m sorry, but this just isn’t right. And where does this end?

At the rate our society is moving, the outrage mob is just going to get hungrier and hungrier. Soon, disagreeing with gay marriage or believing that homosexuality is a Biblical sin will get you the same sentence that Sterling just got. It will be said to be as bad as making racist remarks."

OMG THE HORROR!! We must nip this in the bud or else bigory of ANY form might get similar punishment!!!!

besides what these Yahoo Commenters really mean is "I secretly have viewpoints similar to mr. sterling and this criticism of him feels a wee bit too close to home"

yup

Poly ill look for it again but it was a pile of BS

that's really not necessary

seems like looking at comments on any article related to this mess would be basically a form of self-inflicted torture

also looking at comments ever about anything

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmbWjnyCQAAbW_w.jpg

lolllllllll I was thinking more this:

http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/wp-content/uploads/01-The-Giant-3-785x425.jpg

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Key-details-about-woman-on-Sterling-scandal-audio-5437096.php#photo-6235394

gd Silver going ham today, loving this.

There is no shortage of different sadsack Sterling-uninterested-at-courtside jpgs for all of these stories.

On Monday, a man who answered the phone at Nehoray's law office wouldn't identify himself and said the attorney would no longer comment on the audio or Stiviano's case. He said the attorney was invoking the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, citing a statement issued by the Clippers accusing Stiviano of embezzlement.

So the leaker looks like Stiviano's lawyer?

Also, was she sued for receiving gifts? How on earth is that a crime?

looks like all teams' websites are rockin the WE ARE ONE with black background

wow

union's still pushing hard, too.

"I reached out to other players around the league and made it clear the players were ready to boycott the games if this type of action was not something that Adam Silver felt was necessary," Mason said. "We're happy with the decision but we're not content yet. We want immediate action. We want a timetable from the owners as far as when this vote is going to happen."

double wow. this is a no-joek sacrifice.

(would have been, had it come to pass)

vry cool that everyone is going all-out w/ this stuff, gl for Silver and rest of NBA.

Wonder what they do if both teams just stand around

really clips/GSW missing a golden opportunity to play the first tie game in NBA history iirc.

Link please. Everything I've read has said that he made two or three small donations a long time ago.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/donald-sterling-republican-democrat-politics-nba-racism

essentially: conservatives rush to paint sterling as a filthy democrat because of a few donations he made without finding out the facts.

hm. distorting the facts like that is very unlike conservatives.

Holy shit Bomani blacked the fuck out

many xps

Feeling disturbed thinking about Sterling's gf and what her life must be like

V. Stiviano “never wanted any harm to Donald,” Calabasas lawyer Mac Nehoray of Calabasas told The Times.

He said the 31-year-old is still reeling from the release of the recordings in which Sterling chastises her for associating with African Americans, including Magic Johnson. He said that “someone released it for money” but it wasn’t Stiviano.

“My client is devastated that this got out,” he said.

He also insisted that Stiviano and the 80-year-old Clippers owner never had a sexual or romantic relationship and descriptions of her as his mistress in the media and in a lawsuit filed by Sterling’s wife are erroneous.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-v-stiviano-saddened-nba-donald-sterling-ban-20140429,0,5463256.story#ixzz30KRjXj2f

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQR143XM4WEA4PE5icmIRVxCzYh47ALsT4Dte_HqYJtIzt_M_-Pnwp

xp

yeah the bomani jones thing is pretty much an A+ effort

bomani is good ppl

he's one of the few Sports Yellers i can tolerate for more than a couple minutes

If she isn't his gf who is she? Are they just bros? What?

Archivist.

Hahah wtf:

https://31.media.tumblr.com/ff44a89f055f6fd0bb984804633f69e8/tumblr_n4t4hrDgRU1qb660mo1_1280.png

looooooool I saw that before but never got to the bottom.

plz tell me there is somewhere we can read more of the depo

If she isn't his gf who is she? Are they just bros? What?

― très hip (Treeship), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 9:33 PM (18 minutes ago

she's a side chick that sterling has given actual responsibilities to because he is out of his mind

At various times over the 10min convo Sterling sounds like her boyfriend, father and grandfather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yzjC4Joq3k

from an ex-college athlete yet

Earlier today:

Skynews reporter: "So do you think he should be banned for life?"

Some guy in the street: "Oh yes, multiple times over."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bmbzgc9CMAEyaEc.jpg

this wouldve be something to see

got 2 get in the customary dapping

dont mess w our daps

The tension with Erman got weird. Midseason, the team moved Erman’s parking spot to a less convenient place, likely at the behest of Jackson or one of Jackson’s allies on the staff, per multiple sources familiar with the matter. They began changing his duties in strange ways.

mark jackson is a child wtf this shit

yeah i can understand now why the celtics were like come work for us, we are not insane

“If it was me, I wouldn't come to the game. I believe as fans, the loudest statement they could make as far as fans is to not show up to the game,” Jackson said. “As an African-American man that's a fan of the game of basketball and knows its history and knows what's right and what's wrong, I would not come to the game tomorrow, whether I was a Clipper fan or a Warrior fan.”

- Mark Jackson

such a fucking idiot

don't come to the game, not because of the advantage it would give my team, but because evil man said bad words

mama there goes that evil man

hands down evil man down

back up, back up tell me what ya gonna do now keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' (what?)

clippers fans, do me a solid and dont show up. that wd b a grown man move thx

don't come to the game, not because of the advantage it would give my team, but because evil man said bad words

― am0n, Wednesday, April 30, 2014

i have no allegiance toward, or feelings one way or the other about, mark jackson, but didn't he support the warriors' plan to forfeit game five, in protest, over the sterling situation? that seems to cut against the notion that he's just manipulating the situation to gain a competitive advantage for his team.

ILH does not like Jackson, at all.

tbf he was maybe the most obnoxious commentator of all time

reggie, bro

(but top 3, def)

jackson was at least memorable, reggie is just a cliche abusing embarrassment

idk reggie is so bad but jacksons analysis is just as bad + terrible catchphrases + tough guy leadership routine

yeah "hand down man down", "momma there goes that man" were at least his own brand. "good offense trumps good defense" is true I just wish he would take his own advice on that one.

reggie has a horrible voice tho so he's already off on the wrong foot

"tough guy leadership routine"

yeah this gets annoying, IM OLD SCHOOL MAN

you guys are actually crediting jacksons for having a "brand", sending u to a reeducation camp asap, yr uber will be there in like 20

even if the brand was annoying, he had one you can't deny it

yeah its the assumption that "brand" is a good way to talk about what he did and that having a "brand" is a thing thats fundamentally superior to not having one that has led to your enrollment in the reeducation camp

ok i accept

cool thanks for cooperating now just download this app

Tim Reynolds ‏@ByTimReynolds 1h -- LeBron on Sterling: "No matter how long it takes, no matter how much it costs, he has to be gone."

good for lebron. he made a string of similar comments today, and hinted at a "next step" had silver not adequately sanctioned sterling.

sorry; had not adequately sanctioned "t. sterling."

srsly doubt a warriors walkout forfeit would have ever happened

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a320/w8ng4msrgt/2008%20Pictures/crise/mugshot012.jpg

ha

no, clippers is a great name
http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/daily-take/201404/donald-sterling-los-angeles-clippers-new-owner-name-change-nba

plz do not rename the team the dragons game of thrones wont be popular forever

otoh I think everyone wants to avoid Don Sterling taint

lmao

unless he gives u a bentley right

rite

wow all those suggestions are horrible

Americans
Dream
Freedom

name change would be ok though i guess, id even k what a clipper is

los angeles crying eagles

Why stop at one measly Bentley, gotta at least wait him out so you get a Ferrari too.

xp it's a ship, you philistine!

basically all WNBA style team names

shd rename themselves the brooklyn hipsters imho

wow all those suggestions are horrible

― k3vin k., Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amigos is a super good team name imho

can we have a few moments for dude's suggestion that the new owner wipes away the stigma of Sterling's racism by renaming the team to the Los Angeles Amigos because that is amazing

xp: lol

i kinda like dream too except maybe dreams is better, then u can refer to a player for the team as a dream

lol @ suggesting "magic"

"this is probably unrealistic but i need 50 more words and also i am an idiot"

You'd be obliged to hire Hakeem though.

*free agent signing press conference*

"im just really happy to be here today, to be part of this team, to be a dream, i am not real*

might the NBA be able to engineer some sort of trade between Los Angeles and Orlando? It's probably unrealistic

no, yes

haha thanks to formatting I had a split second where I though he was suggesting the Los Angeles U.S. Commission On Civil Rights as a team name

would be a good one tho

Rename them the Los Angeles Apology?

Los Angeles Checkers (4 'checkered past')

Los Angeles Lakers?

NBA VS. CLIPPERS OWNER STERLING
Opinion: Hold on -- Sterling is a victim, too
Marc Randazza says easily recording and leaking private speech -- even that of a racist -- portends a chilling future without privacy. Shouldn't we condemn that, too? FULL STORY

Los Angels River

First they came for Donald Sterling, but I did not speak up, because I'm not a fucking asshole....

Los Angeles Holdons
Los Angeles Victims
Los Angeles Leakers
Los Angeles Futures

i'm really confused abt all these privacy dorks still beating this drum...if he consented to being taped i don't really know what their point is?

Los Angels River

― lag∞n, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can we all just hold on and think about what a good idea this is for a sec

Los Angeles Holdons

http://thescenenewyork.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/wilson-phillips-2012-photo-by-yoni-levy-1.jpg

Changing the city name, too?

the privacy thing is straw-grasping. I mean, similar to IMDB, no matter what piece of shit exists in the world, if you look long and hard enough on the internet, you will always find some asshole defending it

can we all just hold on and think about what a good idea this is for a sec

― lag∞n, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:32 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1. it brilliantly skewers the absurdity of the lakers name
2. it is a real place in LA
3. their coach is named coach rivers

IMDB, neanderthal?

Also, a pic of the Los Angeles River would clarify the aptitude of the name, given the team's win-loss record since it began.

like I mean if I agreed to a Code of Conduct and agreed to behave myself off of the court and then had a conversation with someone off the record and said "hey y'know the HOlocaust didn't happen and fuck the Jews for perpetuating the lie" and the guy was horrified and told everyone in the world I said this...it reflects badly on the league, and I should be punished for it, 'privacy' be damned.

It isn't as if Silver drilled a hole in Sterling's head and scooped out the thoughts inside, or that he hadn't done DECADES WORTH OF HORRIBLE SHIT prior, such as heckling his own goddamn player, threatening to evict a black tenant because she reported leaks. the people who would go to lengths to defend this guy are about as bad as him and deserve to be told to fuck off as well.

how's life I'm referring to the fact that you'll find people on IMDB championing classics like "Alien from L.A." or that one film with Nick Swardson playing a porn star.

I've forced myself away from the internet comments for this fiasco and it has made me happier for this sitch.

idk it a feels like a setup to me wake up sheeple fasle flag

waiting for Cliven Bundy to offer his support, pointing out that nowhere in the Constitution does it say an 80-year old misogynist, racist, wrinklefarm can't own a historically mediocre franchise

"Mediocre" is being generous.

How about Los Angeles Panthers

THE LA PANTHER THRASHERS

The Los Angeles X

you know, because of LAX airport

and the iconic punk band x

certainly there'd be too many puns about ex-LAX players

I think you meant not enough.

the Los Angeles Everything

the Los Angeles Everything Bagel

The Los Angeles Food Scene

The Los Angeles The Angels

The Los Angeles County

BTW can I just say I think "We Are One" is kind of cheap and stupid even if well-meaning, and I hate how they already had TV spots using it ready to go for last night's game

also think of all of the fun. royalty money they're leaving on the table

The Los Angeles Bulgogi Cheesesteaks

last sammich I had in LA was so good that they should name team after it

BTW can I just say I think "We Are One" is kind of cheap and stupid even if well-meaning, and I hate how they already had TV spots using it ready to go for last night's game

― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:52 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no you cannot say that sorry this thread is not for the haters

still think an NBA team should call themselves the Ballers

i'm down w/the sentiment but the execution felt less grassroots and more like a really slick ad campaign, like let's take this incident and boil it down to a three word catchphrase as quickly as possible.

We've already decided to not be cynical about this and just enjoy it

see also: BOSTON STRONG

Well that was a scam with t shirts and everything

No cynicism until shirted

The Los Angeles Actors/Waiters

The Los Angeles Fear of Aging

ballers don't liars

The Los Angeles Old Man Nutsucks

The Los Angeles Lapbands

yeah the "we are one" was kind of lame as far as "statements" go, but imo just making any "statement" was enough at that point

ugh Boston Strong. That one doubly irks me. It's not fucking Dresden.

wow insensitive much

wow dude

The Los Angeles BALL

only beef with boston strong is I read that shirts were being sold under pretense that profits were donated but were not

they were prob donated to bostonians tho

good point. i am totally down with it now.

Would we otherwise expect a city to be "weak" a year after a terrorist attack at a sports event? I get that it's a trauma, but it seems like such an easy self-pat on the back for something that didn't directly impact most people in the city. Three deaths and 140 injuries.

sry injury number was low but same idea

hurting if i even meet you im going to literally beat u up then u will understand what boston strong is all about

they shut down an entire neighborhood for the manhunt iirc

it happened at a major public event

the whole city shuts down that day

you can imagine for a moment if you stop being a dick, how scared people would be. not just adults. kids, teenagers. have some compassion.

lol if by "entire neighborhood" you mean "5 towns and 60% of the city of Boston"

I am pretty cynical about BOSTON STRONG seeing as I brought it up here and all but I'm at least sensible enough to leave it at "I am pretty cynical about it" partially because I know someone who had her foot blown off and it seems beyond evil to be overly cynical about her actual missing foot

exactly. and even seeing it all (from a distance) happen at locations where you've been is scary and justifies a confidence building campaign.

did not mean to play things down with "entire neighborhood". I wasn't there, and I just remember how surreal everything that took place in the final neighborhood also was.

I live in NYC and I was cynical about a lot of the branding and sloganizing of 9/11, and I know multiple people who lost relatives. If "Boston Strong" is actually a balm to any of you then I take back what I said.

xp "play things down" = "downplay things"?, i don't know

oh you live in NYC, that explains it

i dont really care i was just making fun of the ponderousness of your argument fwiw

i mean obvs #bostonstrong is dumb but w/e it was a terrible traumatic event

I kind of don't feel like I deserve a "strong" badge because I got scared on the subway a couple times and survived.

its ok no one is trying to give u a badge

but no one would argue with you if you wanted one unless that person was being an insensitive dick

fair enough

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmfnCz9CcAEbaGh.jpg

it's perfectly understandable for a community to rally together when it is PHYSICALLY attacked, and to affirm that it is too strong to be made to cower in fear by its past or future attackers. it's one of the few times most American urbanites are able to tap into a sense of community and togetherness, I'm for it even if I kinda roll my eyes at some of it.

she joined daft punk

#bostonpunk

bosstones strong

ho niice

mighty mighty

why didn't sterling stage a counter-demonstration outside the staples center last night, flanked by an entourage of angry supporters? it could have been like when the NWO showed-up in new york, to heckle the WWE outside a filming of raw. donald t. sterling needs to start thinking big.

http://www.wwe.com/f/wysiwyg/image/2013/04/20130430_DX1_642.jpg

Good to see the thread is back on track.

chyna looks so happy there.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/clippers-retire-donald-sterling-jersey,35910/

A friend of mine created this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx9pXSaAAps&list=UU0vRcJh1-GQL_V4qm5F6xFw

that's great

ha

nice

kudos

so, who's in the running to buy the clippers?

• oprah
• diddy
• mayweather
• magic
• rick ross
• matt damon
• the most interesting man in the world
• the exhumed body of ronald reagan

mitt romney

i knew it.

bruce wayne

Been needing to buy some new clippers for a while.

would be cool if bruce wayne bought the clippers. plus invites tie-ins with the clippers existing superhero team.

http://www.mybs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/the-griffin-force.jpg

Maybe the Winkelvosses can buy them and change the name to the Bitcoin Ballers or something

los angeles generals of south park

http://feedly.com/k/1pQ8YiQ

Sterling beat his kids in the presence of reporters.

[S]o much of his behavior — extreme parsimony, discriminatory practices, wild sexual escapades — was deemed too weird, too cruel, too contemptible. An editor told me, "You've demonized him."

is literally a demon

Whatever the official line is, I don't really buy that no one is considering his past in this decision. I'm guessing there are at least a few owners and league officials who have thought he was bad for the league for a while now.

judging by how fast everyone fell in line with the ban they all completely hate him

which stands to reason since he is subhuman garbage

god that story about beating his kid. i did not know who this person was before the recent scandal, and i kind of can't believe he is real.

judging by how fast everyone fell in line with the ban they all completely hate him

yeah but all those dudes can see the slippery slope that cuban mentioned/recanted

it happened because the players were gonna revolt and they had the public on their side. none of the remaining 29 want that to set a precedent

yeah thats a big factor but i think there are at least a few owners who are confident enough that they are not subhuman garbage

yeah both were nessisary factors imo

If you are seriously sweating that your private conversations might be so bad that you'd have something like this happen to you if you got out, maybe you should just rethink everything about your life.

*if they got out

Dashiell Driscoll @dashiell · 10m
THIS IS COMPLETELY FOR REAL. HENCE THE CAPS. HE SAID "IM AN UNHAPPY CUSTOMER" WHEN HE DIDNT GET HIS USUAL TABLE

Dashiell Driscoll @dashiell · 12m
THE WAITERS ARE AUDIBLY DISCUSSING HOW HES A PIECE OF SHIT. HE WANTED HIS USUAL TABLE AND THEY SHOVED HIM IN A CORNER AHHHHHHHHHH

Dashiell Driscoll @dashiell · 13m
I AM EATING DINNER AT A STEAK HOUSE IN BEVERLY HILLS 3 TABLES AWAY FROM DONALD STERLING RN

what if he registers a new email address and then continues to own the clippers under a different display name?

hope dt sterling can't even have it his way at burger king anymore xp

if he goes to Subway, he can only have a vinegar and banana pepper sandwich. made personally by Jared. with prolonged eye contact.

there is a certain justice in people not wanting to associate with him now

They should make him live in one of his own slums, and then it could be like that Mel Brooks movie Life Stinks

lol, sterling truthers. everything inspires "truthers" nowadays.

it happened because the players were gonna revolt and they had the public on their side. none of the remaining 29 want that to set a precedent

― mookieproof, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 10:20 PM (Yesterday)

it happened because when you run a cartel you put your long-term financial well-being ahead of your personal feelings about one of the members

but in this case their personal feelings about that member prob matched up perfectly with what they did

"cartel"

The NBA is a conspiracy to prevent free-market professional basketball play

m/l

otherwise cp3 could go where he wants

worst sterling anecdote goes to bill simmons in that column where hes like DID YOU SEE THAT STERLING BULLIED HIS PLANE SEATMATE INTO TAKING A NEWSPAPER HE DID NOT WANT TO TAKE

we unmask Donald Sterling's yelp profile.

God, the reflexive nature of conservative opposition. A man is revealed as a racist so unambiguously that even they unanimously concede he is despicable, and their response is still, who had it out for him, cui bono? We all benefit, you clowns.

funny they always seem most interested in privacy issues when it has maximum contrarian value and affords the opportunity to defend an oligarch

when you run a cartel you put your long-term financial well-being ahead of your personal feelings about one of the members

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bHSVCs9rX0A/SjgJk_2ckPI/AAAAAAAAGbs/hebqOYwpFnM/s1600-h/Sal.jpg

http://www.itusozluk.com/image/salvatore-tessio_47018.jpg

donald sterling is a horrible cacodemon

the floating red things from Doom?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/This-Town-Needs-A-Better-Class-Of-Racist/361443/

Was just about to ask where the hell Ta is. Need to make sense of all this.

http://nypost.com/2014/05/01/disgraced-clippers-owner-donald-sterling-is-battling-cancer/

onion nails it again

http://www.theonion.com/articles/donald-sterling-well-time-to-go-off-somewhere-and,35908/

kevin johnson is smart http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/sports/basketball/how-kevin-johnson-influenced-the-donald-sterling-ruling.html

ta-nehisi coates completely otm, comments like sterling's and cliven bundy's deserve to be shitted on by everyone but the narrative is always that this is the worst kind of racism and also the only kind of racism that still exists, i.e. clueless old oafs. i've already seen a bunch of articles decry the comments but talk about how "these guys are old and part of a fading generation" so we can celebrate that racism will soon be gone!

actually donald sterling is the final racism boss... or is he *hidden doors slide open to reveal a dimly lit corridor*

*jumps onto donald sterlings head*

don't worry plenty still out there who will bravely defend the clueless old oafs

http://kotaku.com/community-manager-fired-after-calling-donald-sterling-a-1570567303

joyce carol oates also

dude still has the right to be a horrible bigot in his own house! what he doesn't have is the privilege of owning a basketball team.

xp

iirc she has horrible things to say on a wide variety of issues

worst sterling anecdote goes to bill simmons in that column where hes like DID YOU SEE THAT STERLING BULLIED HIS PLANE SEATMATE INTO TAKING A NEWSPAPER HE DID NOT WANT TO TAKE

I actually kinda like these stories; obviously everyone is in a rush to tell stories articulating just how awful a guy this really was but I think that sort of ignores a bigger point - people like this get into money and power because they also know how to be affable and likeable when they need to be. Granted the Simmons story paints him to be as much of a weirdo as all the other ones do but it also shows a side that IMO is more dangerous.

great story on how it went down - http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10869537/los-angeles-clippers-owner-donald-sterling-troubled-reign-approaches-inglorious-end

http://deadspin.com/v-stiviano-appears-on-20-20-says-donald-sterling-is-n-1571171738?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

a girl's gotta stay in that will

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bm6FeW1IQAA5Quy.jpg

chandler 't' parsons

Lmao

lol.

kinda wanna know if thats really what he chose

No self-respecting Chinese person would be caught dead there.

donald sterling story will take some ugly turns.

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/02/this_is_what_junot_diaz_wants_his_undergrad_students_to_read/

Díaz, informed that Salon had tracked down his syllabi, assured us via email that the diversity of perspectives he emphasizes is less about the books than the approach. “I teach classic Gothic texts which are themselves not very diverse by our standards,” he said, “but the critical lens I deploy helps my students understand how issues of race, gender, coloniality etc. are never far and how these problematics in fact underpin even what what would be considered a ‘white text.’”

Sharing just a list of books, he feared, “feels like a shortcut—like throwing out Sterling from the NBA.”

https://vine.co/v/M6IKDmYYHrv

chandler parsons ate his last meal at a little bistro called lillards

a horrible parsons

that's Lindefensible.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/rochelle--shelly--sterling--wife-of-banned-owner-donald-sterling--plans-legal-fight-to-keep-clippers-201458541.html

this should be fun

It's interesting that she'd throw her hat in the ring like that and make sounds about post-racial harmony when she ought to know that stuff like this is going to leak.

By "interesting," I mean "delusional."

she seems to be at least as insane as he is

sterlings are living in the 90s or something when you had to actually send someone to the courthouse to look up public records..

They're probably still using MySpace.

Two birds one stone!

http://cmgajcluckovich.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/050914-toon-luckovich-ed.jpg?w=640

I'm noticing a pattern that horrible human beings named Donald seem to enjoy pointless legal battles

"I'm trying to have sex with her. I'm trying to play with her," the man also says. "You know, if you (are trying) to have sex with a girl and you're talking with her privately, you don't think anybody's there. You may say anything in the world. What difference does it make?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/us/nba-donald-sterling-audio-recording/index.html

the elaborate foreplay defense. very clever.

"You think I'm a racist?" a man purported to be Sterling says. "You think I have anything in the world but love for everybody? You don't think that. You know I'm not a racist."

A second man in that tape says, "they're trying to force you to sell."

"You can't force someone to sell property in America," Sterling purportedly says. "Well, I'm a lawyer; that's my opinion."

"These players are my property. Why are you looking at me like that? What? They are!"

I like that DTS thinks talking about taking black dudes off a girls instagram makes them horny as hell

I almost wonder if Sterling set this latest recording up and leaked it himself.

"Oh hey Blake. Oh, please don't cry. I know how much you respect me and don't want me to sell the team. Here. Here's a lollipop for ya."

http://thedailybanter.com/2012/05/exclusive-failing-up-with-dick-parsons/

cool, this is the new CEO of the clippers

haha cool franchise, good work

silver appointed him!

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2014/05/donald_sterling_koreans_what_the_clippers_owner_s_love_of_korean_americans.html

"When I listen to that tape, I don't even know how I can say words like that. ... I don't know why the girl had me say those things," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview set to air on Monday.

"You're saying you were set up?" Cooper asked.

"Well yes, I was baited," Sterling said. "I mean, that's not the way I talk. I don't talk about people for one thing, ever. I talk about ideas and other things. I don't talk about people."

I'm not a racist, I'm a sociopath

Arash Markazi ‏@ArashMarkazi 1h
Sterling was asked if he apologized to Magic. Said Magic hasn't done everything to help minorities; isn't a good example for the kids in LA.

I'm not a racist, I'm a sociopath
― Clay, Monday, 12 May 2014 13:00

not inaccurate imo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnaF3eFCUAE-hG-.jpg

omg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnefvI7IcAAZWWc.jpg

Donald Sterling is America's StrawGrandpa come to life

i feel fairly certain that quote should actually finish "he has the AIDS."

Sterling's irony-free comments about Magic's promiscuity is kinda like Dr Wiley publicly condemning Mega Man for being violent

Tim Reynolds ‏@ByTimReynolds 1h -- Adam Silver just apologized to Magic Johnson for the latest Sterling comments

piling it on, adam silver is.

Big Magic Johnson, what has he done?

...

HE'S GOT AIDS

perhaps this is a very protracted attempt at getting someone to strangle him in a perverted form of assisted suicide.

donald t. sterling is out of his f--g mind.

he is old.

v v old

still a prick of the highest order obv

he rationalizes like a child

"i am not a racist. i'm all about love. love, i love everyone. everyone loves me. i don't care about business things. i care about helping people. (holds back a torrent of tears) i thought she liked me. i guess i am an old fool."

-- the very, very, very, very, very genuine and believable donald t. sterling.

As if the "model minority" shit isn't bad enough on its own, his idea of model minority is "agrees to live in whatever shitty housing conditions I provide them and still pays the rent on time."

I wonder what percentage of billionaires are sociopathic and/or narcissistic. 90%?

we are the 99% (sociopathic) billionaires

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/sports/basketball/clippers-for-sale-and-the-owner-who-was-desperate.html

interesting study-project on the psychological impact of extreme wealth on someone's mind. once you're on-top, you are surrounded by people that always agree with you and reinforce your views. that can lead to extreme lack of self-awareness and the abandonment of sensible caution, both of which are on display with sterling (and, you know, your highly-successful drug kingpin).

NBA Legion ‏@MySportsLegion 1h -- LeBron James is ready to lead a players boycott next season if Donald Sterling is still the owner of the Clippers. (via Roger Mason)

wow.

i read an interesting article recently, saying that -- based on his words and actions over the past two years -- lebron would rather be muhammad ali than michael jordan. might be true.

full article.

Assuming the owners officially vote Sterling out and then Sterling drags them to court, a boycott would not be a helpful thing. Legal issues take time to be resolved, and there's nothing Silver can do to change that. Sterling doesn't care if the players boycott. He's getting his check either way, and he is clearly does not care about public opinion. In fact, he seems to love the spotlight.

i assume the idea is to only boycott if, by the beginning of the next season, the owners haven't taken action to remove sterling. if they've done all they can do, and sterling has secured an injunction and tied-up the matter in court, i'm guessing the players will play (maybe not the clippers, tho).

i know all this because i consulted my magic 8 ball.

http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u343/rockinrhonda_01/_08ball.jpg

the guy on cnn just now, digging into magic johnson, made some interesting points (he wasn't defending donald sterling, and went out of his way to make that clear).

Stan Van just confirmed to Detroit on TNT

yup! good pickup, detroit.

oops meant to put that in the offseason thread sorry to screw up your immaculate private space, Donald Sterling

donald t. sterling, if you please.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2627494/EXCLUSIVE-Listen-explosive-secret-taped-rants-Donald-Sterling-black-pimp-Stiviano-true-racist-wakes-day-wishing-white-hot-sex-family-call-The-Monster.html

incredible url

lol

white-hot-sex-family

The tapes, recorded just four or five days after the scandal broke, paint a very different picture to that presented to CNN host Anderson Cooper in an interview on Monday night.

no, this is exactly the same picture

Here’s a poor girl a Mexican girl never had anything in her life never had food never had clothes and I mean she has a fabulous body and she loves to have sex and she’s just fun and I think what if I give her some money and what if I helped her. And what if I helped her family. I changed the whole family’s life.

this is Donald T. Sterling's plantation, we're just picking cotton on it

What do you think Donald T. Sterling and "Maserati" talked about when they hung out. I'm guessing cars.

Also, what do you think Donald T. Sterling and now-deceased Raiders owner "Al Davies" talked about when they hung out.

Do you think Al Davies and Maserati ever hung out?

Did Al Davies listen to rap music? Did he know any Ice Cube lyrics?

I feel like a guy whose just been dumped on. I mean I’m down at the bottom of the ocean - not a soul has come to help me up, I’m all by myself. But you know, who would wanna get together with us and hear the real story, the real truth? Maybe a book company?

Aside from all the terribleness, this whole story has been a goldmine of hilarity.

can we talk about how this is the best url ever

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2627494/EXCLUSIVE-Listen-explosive-secret-taped-rants-Donald-Sterling-black-pimp-Stiviano-true-racist-wakes-day-wishing-white-hot-sex-family-call-The-Monster.html

I should etsy up a refrigerator magnet poetry set of that URL

can we talk about how this is the best url ever

I did!

Anyway please shoot this dude into outer space please

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/14/killed-by-donald-sterling-s-racism.html

awesome use of quotes here

Says their sex was 'hot' even if it 'took an hour to 'get there'

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10954789/nba-initiates-charge-los-angeles-clippers-owner-donald-sterling

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnefvI7IcAAZWWc.jpg

― k3vin k., Monday, May 12, 2014 9:15 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

whoever picked that still deserves a raise

Sterling is the only guy in america with any beef with magic since larry retired.

i have beef w magic for being terrible on tv, tho he mostly managed to stay away this season so im not too mad rn

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/report--donald-sterling-asked-v--stiviano-to-lie-to-the-nba--he-and-his-wife-are-not-estranged-002432972.html

some new behind the scenes reporting:

Stiviano told Anders that Sterling met with her on May 2, shortly before she was interviewed by ABC’s Barbara Walters. Sterling asked Stiviano to tell the NBA that she lied in her previous meeting with the league. The billionaire owner wanted her to tell the league investigators that the voice on the recording was not his and that she had altered the recording,

Stiviano said Donald Sterling requested that she pay Shelly Sterling to settle the lawsuit, filed in 2013, and that he would return the money to Stiviano through “back channels.”

It also says there is ample evidence that Sterling and his wife are not estranged, as has been suggested.

The Times report also further incriminates former Clippers president Andy Roeser, in the NBA’s eyes. Roeser was given access to the tapes weeks before they were released, from a team employee who received them from Stiviano, according to the report. Allegedly, Roeser knew that the voice on the tapes was that of Sterling, but kept a brave “that-might-not-be-Donald!” face both in a press release and in discussions with the NBA.

http://deadspin.com/did-new-clippers-ceo-dick-parsons-really-play-college-b-1579773293?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

huh

Fuck Mark Cuban btw

he apparently walked back the hoodie stuff b/c of trayvon and apologized for the imagery but yeah his statements were obv extremely problematic

basically erm sorry about Trayvon but you know, my prejudice is still totally defensible

yeah it's gross as hell

its too bad because he started tout by admitting he has prejudices which is imo very healthy and could really helpful and good if more people were willing to do so but then he was all shrug thats just the way it is whatre u gonna do

just think young black dudes are scary hey man that's just me that's life nbd

sometimes i murder hookers everyones got their thing

his fear of young black men is pretty ironic when u consider he owns a basketball team i wonder if hes scared to go in the locker room

dirk checks it out for him, makes sure its safe in there

peaks around the corner does dirk seem nervous has anyone stabbed dirk no dirk is chillin ok its safe just got to remember to keep my back to the wall any everything will be fine

had my guy put my wallet in my other jet thank god

always has bodyguards:

http://blogimages.thescore.com/tbj/files/2013/07/nash-cuban-dirk-cowboy-hats.jpg

Sterling is the only guy in america with any beef with magic since larry retired.

― building a desert (art), Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:15 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah Zeke and Magic had that big incident where Zeke implied (said?) Magic was gay

well that wasn't much of a fight

What is Cuban doing walking the streets at night surely up to no good.

http://37.media.tumblr.com/f507e723539b2fce525a2eec79f8d107/tumblr_n5hmbiSmzH1qg5kzeo1_1280.png

bids to buy the clippers were due at 5pm eastern today, so guess ilh putting together the capital to own a team ain't happening this summer :(

RT @darrenrovell: Sources: The Geffen/Ellison/Oprah group has partnered with Guggenheim execs Todd Boehly & Mark Walter for Clippers bid

game over

I'll say.

http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ladine2n-3-web-741x1024.jpg

oh no

Who gets the $$$ from the sale?

the sterlings

2 bil from Ballmer was the winning bid, apparently.

I almost prefer Sterling to Ballmer.

Tech billionaire Steve Ballmer, who headed Microsoft for 14 years, has won bidding for the @LAClippers at a record $2 billion. Story soon.

BALL

TWO BILLION!

seattle clippers

a gis for steve ballmer is one of the more horrific things on this planet

Oh god I nearly pissed myself for real.

oh he is just so actively repugnant that i get the heebie-jeebies

Thank god for Kegel exercises.

cue the flood of *what kind of punishment is two billion dollars won't someone think of the children* facebook posts

http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/article/46704-image/Heres-what-well-remember-Steve-Ballmer-for-best-and-weirdest-moments.jpg

lol i love ballmer he is so ballmer

so not ballmer

ballmer should have bought beats and apple should have bought the clippers

Jeez, two freakin' billion dollars??? What in holy hell happened in the five years between The No Benjamins Association and now? (Other than the economy recovering and the owners winning the lockout.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY2j_GPIqRA

so apparently his wife got him declared mentally incapacitated so she could be sole trustee and sell the team, lol

30 years too late or something.

ballmer #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_AP3SGMxxM

I know it's not what happened.

I know that Sterling is a douche who got caught being douchey and his co-owners wanted him gone for a while, and Silver knew he'd look awesome for doing it as early as he could.

BUT

Imagine just for a second that Sterling planned this whole thing. It is really not too far outside the realm of possibility. It would not take a Kaiser Soze or Petyr Baelish to pull this off.

I know it would have just been easier and less public and possibly more profitable (although I don't see how THAT'S possible) to just put the team up for sale, so I'm not sure if this was a thing that makes sense pragmatically. Like, would this brouhaha increase value? Possibly by way of publicity?

Thoughts?

Sorry - FELLOW owners.

As first reported by NBC News, Donald Sterling will file a lawsuit against the NBA for forcing a sale of the Clippers, and he'll reportedly seek more than $1 billion in damages. ESPN's Ramona Shelburne adds that Sterling is still deciding whether to sue Shelly Sterling too. And here comes Woj, saying Sterling could file a separate suit to stop the sale of the team.

http://deadspin.com/donald-sterling-to-sue-nba-1583993252

http://thedirtyturban.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/aasilver.gif

"i got u"

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2014/0529/nba_g_steveb2_cr_576x324.jpg

Lawsuit filed, sale is off

rough day to be steve ballmer, hope he finds the slightest comfort in his billions upon billions of dollars

sterling's only delaying the inevitable. no chance he'd win. he's just trying to be the biggest pain in the ass he can be.

if he manages to delay the sale until after he dies then he wins i think

if you consider poking the other guy in the eye and then dying before he can crush you as a win, then I suppose yeah, it's a win.

im glad were in agreement

he gave up

everyone hates a quitter

very disappoint

BUT. MAYBE NOT. QUITTING YET

jezz

jeez

this guy

just take ur $2b and go home

lmao this guy
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/11059020/donald-sterling-decides-pursue-1-billion-lawsuit-nba-all

srs question is it possible for someone to rob him of the clippers at gunpoint?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpzWbvqCYAAgc4Z.png:large

put this right up there with dan_gilbert_comic_sans

i mean this is donald "t." sterling literally talking about systematic discrimination enacted by institutions and how said institution is avoiding "the larger social issue"

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/sports/basketball/donald-sterling-impairment-eased-clippers-sale-to-steve-ballmer.html
fun read and an easy way to get up to date

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holy shit it's like the chutzpah story of the kid who kills his parents and then asks for clemency bc he's an orphan

im a despicable monster. THIS IS THE REASON I WILL NOT SELL MY TEAM.

Hi sometimes lurker here who happens to be up early:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/13/us/sterling-nba-investigation/index.html

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11105717/sad-last-chapter-donald-sterling-life

just starting this

making my way through that and, like, is there a single aspect of this guy's personality that is not utterly repulsive?

Donald liked to order for everyone at the table, then eat off their plates.

like wtf dude you are obviously the worst, get outta here

it was all soup, too

Soup in plates? MONSTER.

he makes them eat the soup from his cold lizard hands

The trial is going great:

@everettcook · 1m
Shelly was walking towards Donald after testifying, and he screamed at her, "Get away from me you pig."

bite it u scum