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Sterling banned for life!

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Good move by Silver. You had to get this clown out of the league. He's had a history of racial shit that has been ignored for far too long.

Also kudos to Lisa Guerrero who you might remember from Play Boy or best damn sports show period for asking basically why now? Why was this ignored all these years?!

For that I'll leave you this pic of Lisa.

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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,527 Swaye's Wigwam
    Agree. A quick, decisive decision and now we can get back to basketball.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 11,453
    RoadDawg55 said:

    Agree. A quick, decisive decision and now we can get back to basketball.

    Yes he knows this is the best postseason we've had since 1993(Go back and look at that postseason that is the holy grail of NBA postseasons). He wants the focus to be on that instead of some jackass racist clown.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    It would be interesting to see if Sterling sues. If not, that would be interesting.
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  • QuornDawg
    QuornDawg Member Posts: 1,162
    MikeDamone said:

    It would be interesting to see if Sterling sues. If not, that would be interesting.

    Next step in the process is arbitration as far as dealing with Silver and the NBA owners. (heard on radio show). Legal beagles on Mike and Mike and Dan Patrick show opined that he can file a suit, but would not be successful.

    Either way it will be interesting.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    Seems like a massive overstep to me. Silver trying to show his power reminiscent of Goodell coming in flexing his muscles with player suspensions. It backfired on Goodell, my guess is this backfires too. Sterling should sue the shit out of the NBA.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 11,453
    monroecougdad said:

    MikeDamone said:

    It would be interesting to see if Sterling sues. If not, that would be interesting.

    Next step in the process is arbitration as far as dealing with Silver and the NBA owners. (heard on radio show). Legal beagles on Mike and Mike and Dan Patrick show opined that he can file a suit, but would not be successful.

    Either way it will be interesting.
    He'd be best to just go away, sell the franchise, collect your billion plus dollars in the sell and be grateful you made a great business decision back in 1981 when he bought the franchise.

    Bought it for 13 million and will receive over a billion for it. He won't lose any sleep at all.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,257
    DNC,

    You can definitely argue about there being a massive overstep by Silver.

    HOWEVER, if the rules and options exist in the League Constitution, then there is the legal standing in place. I'd imagine that the NBA Legal Counsel was consulted on this to make sure that Silver was within his right as Commish.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 11,453
    dnc said:

    Seems like a massive overstep to me. Silver trying to show his power reminiscent of Goodell coming in flexing his muscles with player suspensions. It backfired on Goodell, my guess is this backfires too. Sterling should sue the shit out of the NBA.

    Silver is a lawyer so I'm sure he made sure everything was legal in his punishment. Hence him saying "He'll be fined 2.5 million which is the maximum allowed". He also answered a question about it's in there legally to do this.

    Also kudos to Guerrero for making herself relevant again with the question. Bimbo's like Erin Andrews should learn something from her. That you can be attractive and a good reporter. Andrews has the attractive part down but the good reporter she's not.
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  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,500
    This is pretty much a win/win for both parties. Silver gets to look TUFF!!! By "banning" him from the NBA and fining him for close to 1/400th of what he will probably sell the team for lol.
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  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    dnc said:

    Seems like a massive overstep to me. Silver trying to show his power reminiscent of Goodell coming in flexing his muscles with player suspensions. It backfired on Goodell, my guess is this backfires too. Sterling should sue the shit out of the NBA.

    I don't think Silver is trying to show his power. He's trying to make sure he doesn't lose the league. Player revolt was coming if he didn't hammer Sterling. You and Cuban can cry about the precedent all you want but if they had lost the players the league was in deep deep shit. If players started sitting out games it would be a disaster that would take decades to fix.
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