Clippers owner Don Sterling's racist remarks

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Yup. If the NBA has even the barest modicum of respect for its players, they need to throw Sterling out immediately.

[TonyB06]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Yup. If the NBA has even the barest modicum of respect for its players, they need to throw Sterling out immediately.

They cannot force Sterling out. They can pressure him (again) to sell his team, or I guess, band together to meet his sell out price, but as an owner, it's his team.

NBA doesn't have the anti-trust exemption, which, I heard, was used to help force out baseball owner Marge Schott in the 80s?

I thought Clippers' players response was appropriate yesterday. ABC's repeated shots of Sterling's wife sitting courtside, while they talked about his alleged girlfriend, was brutal to watch.

[moe.ron]

Originally Posted by TonyB06

They cannot force Sterling out. They can pressure him (again) to sell his team, or I guess, band together to meet his sell out price, but as an owner, it's his team.

Steve Ballmer is willing and have plenty of cash to buy. Of course, the Clippers will immediately be called the Seattle Supersonic.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by moe.ron

Steve Ballmer is willing and have plenty of cash to buy. Of course, the Clippers will immediately be called the Seattle Supersonic.

If Seattle doesn't pony up a new arena, I doubt that.

The people of Seattle didn't want the team. That's why it's now (happily) the OKC Thunder.

[BasketballFan44]

As a clippers fan, that just discusses me. I mean, you have a black gf so I don't even know how racist this guy really is. I just don't get it. But I just hope that the clippers don't throw the game because of this. They are playing for themselves at the end of the day, not sterling.

[SWTXBelle]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/...0_million.html

"Let’s run through some quick back of the envelope calculations. By all accounts, the Clippers are far more valuable today than when Sterling bought them in 1981 for $12.5 million. According to the Wall Street Journal, insiders think he could “easily fetch $700 million or more from the sale.” So let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that he makes a full $700 million profit. The federal capital gains rate for high earners is 20 percent, while California’s state rate is 13.3 percent. That’s a $233 million tax bill, leaving $467 million behind."