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Having listened to the audio finally, I am little surprised because I think Sterling is on record as having said worse and more explicit things than this before. He obviously comes across poorly because he is basically saying "don't be seen with black people because it makes you look low class and that is just how the world sees it and I don't care to change hearts and minds on this," but the girlfriend keeps trying to put words in his mouth and he doesn't really ever bite. I was expecting nbombs and bare vitriol based on the media response. TMZ scoops are a very strong catalyst for social reactions to things, apparently.
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ProBasketball Talk but welp http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/29/report-doc-rivers-wont-work-for-donald-sterling-anymore Lasagna Pilot posted:Having listened to the audio finally, I am little surprised because I think Sterling is on record as having said worse and more explicit things than this before. He's said and done much worse, but this time it's all about the timing. If the Clippers weren't good this probably wouldn't be as big of a story, if It wasn't the playoffs it wouldn't have been as big, Twitter wasn't as promienent or didn't exist back when he was doing worse stuff. Mostly he's now the owner of the best team in LA, and his team is super visible now compared to when they were essentially a JV team. Dexo fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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I'm feeling sorry for the front office, staff and especially the players. Finally they're within an once in a lifetime chance of reaching the title if not this year then the next three years and this had to blow up on them all from pretty much unrelated actors to the title. Oh well.
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Apr 29, 2014 14:24
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They should just vote to swap the Clippers and Timberwolves. Problem solved.
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sportsgenius86 posted:They should just vote to swap the owners of the Clippers and Timberwolves. Problem solved. Fixed.
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to be honest it would kind of own if there was a white supremacist owner who dressed like Colonel Sanders and would only field a team of white shooters who are scrappy dunk props like Adolph Rupp. Imagine Blake Griffin tipslamming on hatred and bigotry.
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Vanilla Mint Ice posted:I'm feeling sorry for the front office, staff and especially the players. Finally they're within an once in a lifetime chance of reaching the title if not this year then the next three years and this had to blow up on them all from pretty much unrelated actors to the title. Oh well. Front Office sure, Players sure. I don't feel sorry for Doc Rivers, He definitely knew what he was getting into. He has seen first hand the poo poo that Sterling believes and does. It sucks that he has to deal with it, and I completely understand wanting to leave in order to not deal with it, but he knew he was playing with fire, he just didn't expect it to explode in his face.
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mynameisjohn posted:to be honest it would kind of own if there was a white supremacist owner who dressed like Colonel Sanders and would only field a team of white shooters who are scrappy dunk props like Adolph Rupp. so the Wisconsin Badgers with an owner
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poopzilla posted:I was gonna try and make some lame Ron-Ron is Lennie joke and then i found this Hmmm. Nope.
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The Glumslinger posted:This is a big departure from previous Daft Punk albums Is it going to be full of remixes of Sterling's phone calls?
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Bomani Jones is a rad dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bLKe9-Mto
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Didn't see this posted yet. Simmons tweeted this earlier. Take it as you will, looking forward to 2pm: 1. Hearing Adam Silver is dropping the nukes on Donald Sterling today. Everything short of a big mushroom cloud shaped like the NBA logo. 2. Only problem - Sterling loves courtrooms, he has no shame, he's not self-aware, he's comically stubborn + he might just decide to fight. 3. Stealth asset NBA has going for it: Sponsors dropping out + local TV deal going away + players/coaches/fans vowing to leave or stay away.
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Not really anything new other than it sounds like Silver will actually do something. Forgot about TV rights, seems like that's a pretty good money maker.
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Rocks posted:Didn't see this posted yet. Simmons tweeted this earlier. Take it as you will, looking forward to 2pm: Adam Silver might be solidifying his place as the best commissioner in sports today.
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AsInHowe posted:Adam Silver might be solidifying his place as the best commissioner in sports today. such great heights, etc.
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sportsgenius86 posted:such great heights, etc. It's a win by default, but a win is a win.
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AsInHowe posted:Adam Silver might be solidifying his place as the best commissioner in sports today.
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Rocks posted:Didn't see this posted yet. Simmons tweeted this earlier. Take it as you will, looking forward to 2pm:
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I mean he was already the best Commissioner in sports, by default. Goodel, Bettman(  ), Selig
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MourningView posted:it's probably selig, honestly. I really hate Bud Selig.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Bomani Jones is a rad dude This is really good. Bomani laying it down
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Dexo posted:I really hate Bud Selig. He is a tremendous doofus in a lot of ways but has also done a lot of stuff that's been good for the game. It's not a very high bar to clear.
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The fact that Silver has really not done much probably makes him #1, but Selig did add in the play-in Wildcard so
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Adam Silver has stupid ears and his number one priority as commissioner is the stupid age limit so gently caress that dweeb.
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FMguru posted:#2 is the big issue. Sterling looooves going to court, he's very similar to Al Davis is that regard. And he's burn-my-own-house-down stubborn, too - I seem to remember a time where he lost a court case and had to share X% of one of his building's revenue with someone, and he let it sit vacant for years rather than rent it out. That's not the only problem. The political environment (and by extension the opinions of the people in the USA) is pretty devisive right now. Trying to forcibly separate a man from a billion dollar asset that he owns because he said some racist poo poo could lead to a lot of "PUNISHMENT OF A SOVEREIGN CITIZEN FOR THOUGHT CRIMES? ONLY IN OWEBUNGLE'S AMERICA!" type punditry and hurt the league overall. Let us not forget that a large portion of the country is Ma and Pa Kettle types buying a KD jersey for their grandson. It could backfire on the NBA and alienate a lot of fans.
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The politcal environment is not so bad that people in great enough numbers to actually hurt the league are going to side with Sterling and boycott the product as a result, particularly since I would guess most virulent racists are probably not big fans of a league that is like 80% black. And I still doubt they take the team away, they'll just give him a huge suspension and fine. He could be indirectly forced to sell by losing sponsors and TV money, but I don't think they can say "you aren't allowed to own the team anymore and we're taking it"
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If he forces a sale I'm going to loving get so drunk tonight in celebration.
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Does anyone know if there will be a stream of this pressor?
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thompson posted:Does anyone know if there will be a stream of this pressor?
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mynameisjohn posted:there will be I'm legitimately a bit butterflyey. I really hope this is the end of Sterling.
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MourningView posted:Adam Silver has stupid ears and his number one priority as commissioner is the stupid age limit so gently caress that dweeb.
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Yeah, don't worry about not being able to watch/listen to the presser. Probably every news outlet in the US will be carrying it, especially sports news. Just find a sports radio station and it'll be on there.
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thompson posted:I'm legitimately a bit butterflyey. I really hope this is the end of Sterling. I think it's gonna be the beginning of the end. I think the NBA will basically ban him, and Sterling will make a public rear end of himself to drag his heels over it.
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BigBoss posted:That's not the only problem. The political environment (and by extension the opinions of the people in the USA) is pretty devisive right now. Trying to forcibly separate a man from a billion dollar asset that he owns because he said some racist poo poo could lead to a lot of "PUNISHMENT OF A SOVEREIGN CITIZEN FOR THOUGHT CRIMES? ONLY IN OWEBUNGLE'S AMERICA!" type punditry and hurt the league overall. Let us not forget that a large portion of the country is Ma and Pa Kettle types buying a KD jersey for their grandson. It could backfire on the NBA and alienate a lot of fans. The NBA is an entertainment organization so there are financial reasons to give him the boot, not specifically for thought crimes. And the financial reason being that NBA image and viewership will suffer if it is seen as not doing anything and by extension tolerating Sterling's views. Someone probably has an excel spreadsheet that shows how much money the NBA could lose if they did nothing about Sterling.
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This could be the best (or worst) day in the history of the Clippers.
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mynameisjohn posted:This could be the best (or worst) day in the history of the Clippers. Yeah I get that feeling as well.
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This'll probably drag out forever but yes it would be satisfying to see the hammer brought down on Sterling.
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It's pointless to speculate......BUT LETS DO IT ANYWAYS. What type of fine are we looking at. Didn't the NBA fine an owner something like 500k during the last labor dispute for talking about some stuff going on? Should we not expect something in like a 10 million dollar fine? The dude is a billionaire.
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