re: Clay Travis article on Michael Sam, Sterling, etc.

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ELPoster:

His "right" to say what he wants is fully intact as are the "rights" of other members of his association enforcing their ability to remove him from said association. He agreed to this. He will be compensated as the market determines.

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I've not read the NBA Ownership Agreement. I would be rather surprised, however, to learn that it contains any provision which directly addresses the idea of taking his property from him for something that he says in private. It probably contains something like a "morals clause," allowing punishment for "embarrassing the NBA" or some such nonsense.

I don't like the guy, but he did not make any public statements. He made a series of statements in a private conversation, as to which (most would agree) he had a reasonable expectation of privacy. His "embarrassing" statements became "public" ONLY because someone made a surreptitious recording (illegal in some states) of a private conversation.

Keep in mind that his "public" behavior was such that the local NAACP was about to give him an award.