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Mark Jackson
RoadDawg55
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Calls for Clippers fans to boycott game 5. No kidding, Mark? It actually really bothers me that fans with tickets are being pressured to feel guilty. A dad with two kids shouldn't have to feel bad about taking his family to a Clippers playoff game. What Mark fails to understand is that these people already bought tickets. These games are expensive and most people don't like throwing a couple hundred bucks down the drain.
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10853136/mark-jackson-golden-state-warriors-says-fans-boycott-game-5
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10853136/mark-jackson-golden-state-warriors-says-fans-boycott-game-5
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This is why athletes or former athletes(coaches) should STFU about stuff like this.
You had Kenny Smith saying this is on par with Jackie Robinson and Ali which to his credit Barkley jumped all over him for it. That is why I like Barkley he is the only black athlete who doesn't fall for race baiting and has stated he doesn't like race baiters.
Fans black, white, latino, asian should go to the game, integrate and associate with each other to show that Sterling is racist idiot and has no real importance.
CHRIST! All these owners have an agenda and just think about themselves and now what is best for the league.
I agree with having Sterling sell but making every player a free agent?! For fucks sake let's calm the fuck down now.
What most of those calling for protests, walkouts, and boycotts fail to understand is that the only way to hurt Sterling is in the pocket book. You can't hurt him with these kinds of actions to even make him blink.
Now, if you have major corporate sponsors decide that they want nothing to do with him, that's a start.
If the players decide that they will walk out on the season IF he hasn't sold the team by the start of training camp, that's a start. And I'm talking league wide on the players.
If you have new NBA owners threaten him with a lawsuit tied to the fact that his continued ownership is causing significant business damages to their business, that's going to get his attention.
The end goal here is to get the fucker out of the league. It's definitely not going to happen overnight.
There's no question that the comments were bad. Everybody is talking about how this is such a step back for our society. I see it completely different. I think this is a huge step forward for society because EVERYBODY sees this as so wrong that they are barely giving this asshole the opportunity to even defend himself.
It's easy for us as a society to tie everything back to race. But the biggest differences we have in America right now are tied to socio-economic and educational differences. The problem is that a lot of these problems do in fact boil down to a racial divide. IMO, those that continually harp on race race race are doing more to divide than they are to solve the problems that are out there.