We knew it was coming and here it is (Sterling)

Sterling is a dead man walking and everyone will piss on his grave when he's hit the dust.



I woul get a few laughs if Sterling won this case though. Would rustle Sharpton and Jesse's jimmies to no end.

The NBA is not screwed. He was (will be) more or less fired, not thrown in jail.

The law is not on your side for the consequences of being an a-hole.

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I don't see how you can force somebody to sell their property just because you don't share the same beliefs.

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Easy. Break the contract you signed as a requirement of obtaining said property.

HOAs do this all the time and the law is on their side (for now).

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HOAs do this all the time and the law is on their side (for now).

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You're right which is Sterling's argument. How can the NBA hold him to a standard and not others. It's the "I can't fly a flag but you can" HOA argument. If the NBA pursues this it will force them to change their own league laws.

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Sterling also goes after Shaquille O'Neal, asserting in his filing, "Referring to Yao Ming,... (on a television show): "Tell Yao Ming, ching chong yang wah ah soh." And although the statement offended many in the Chinese community, the NBA neither fined nor suspended the player.

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This wins it for me.

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The NBA is going to end up looking bad in the case

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They should...The guy has been a pretty well known racist for some time. He will end up being forced to sell but the NBA is just as much at fault for this guy as he is himself. That being said, as long is he isn't discriminatory in hiring practices within the clippers organization I don't care what the guy thinks in his own home.



n February 2003, the Housing Rights Center of Los Angeles filed a housing discrimination case against Sterling on behalf of 18 tenants. The lawsuit featured several racist statements allegedly made by Sterling to employees, such as that "black people smell and attract vermin" and "hispanics just smoke and hang around the building" as well as Sterling's alleged intent to rent only to Korean tenants because "they will pay the rent and live in whatever conditions I give them." Part of the HRC case's resolution included U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer awarding the plaintiffs' attorney $4.9 million in attorneys fees. While the final terms for the plaintiffs were confidential, the judge said the fees were justified as the settlement obtained by the plaintiffs against Sterling was one of the largest of its kind and the public benefit terms were significant and wide-ranging.

In 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice then sued Sterling for housing discrimination for using race as a factor in filling some of his apartment buildings. The suit charged that Sterling refused to rent to non-Koreans in the Koreatown neighborhood and to African Americans in Beverly Hills.[74] In November 2009, ESPN reported that Sterling agreed to pay a fine of $2.7 million to settle claims brought by the Justice Department and Davin Day of Newport Beach[citation needed] that Sterling engaged in discriminatory rental practices against Hispanics, blacks, and families with children.[75]

In February 2009, Sterling was sued by former longtime Clippers executive Elgin Baylor for employment discrimination on the basis of age and race.[76] The lawsuit alleged that Sterling told Baylor that he wanted to fill his team with "poor black boys from the South and a white head coach".[74] The plaintiffs alleged that during negotiations for Danny Manning, Sterling said "I'm offering a lot of money for a poor black kid."[74][77] The suit also alleged that "the Caucasian head coach was given a four-year, $22-million contract" while Baylor's salary had "been frozen at a comparatively paltry $350,000 since 2003".[76]

That's an NBA PR problem and they still have the legitimate cover of treating employees and owners differently based on agreements signed.

I agree the fervor in punishment is completely reactionary from the NBA and they need to tread carefully from here.

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There is a double standard, one for owners and one for players/coaches.

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Not at all. There is a very distinct, physical difference in which one is allowed and one is not.

What if they let him keep the team and all the other owners just refuse to play him and players play for him?

Then his team loses all value and he's left sitting there with his dick in his hand and too old and sick to start another lawsuit.

I hope he wins just because of the hypocrisy, however because of the free market system we live in, if he wins, the clippers will be boycotted by many fans and even some players.

I hope he wins his case, then sells