Donald Sterling

I doubt that there is a case that says
that anyone has to give away his property to the blacks; un-likely.

The fact that they have a CBA which would have outlawed such a strike seems to not matter to them, which says all we need to know about labor. But these same people will of course continue to swear up and down that Sterling can be ridden out of town because of contracts he signed.

April 29, 2014
Warriors planned Game 5 walkout if Clippers’ Donald Sterling wasn’t banned

NBA commissioner Adam Silver has been widely praised for his harsh punishment of disgraced Clippers owner Donald Sterling, but he could have been facing a much different response had he taken a softer approach.

Silver issued a lifetime ban and a maximum $2.5 million fine to Sterling during a press conference in New York City on Tuesday, while also pledging to do “everything in my power” to remove Sterling as owner of the Clippers. The punishment came down less than eight hours before the Clippers and Warriors were set to play Game 5 of their first-round playoff series at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The Bay Area News Group reports that the Warriors had forged plans to stage a walkout at the start of Game 5 if they were unsatisfied with Silver’s handling of the controversy, which began on Friday when audio tapes were released that included Sterling making a series of racist remarks.

The Warriors were going to go through pre-game warm-ups and take part in the national anthem and starting line-up introductions. They were going to take the floor for the jump ball, dapping up the Clippers players as is customary before games.

Then once the ball was in the air, they were just going to walk off. All 15 of them.

“It would have been our only chance to make a statement in front of the biggest audience that we weren’t going to accept anything but the maximum punishment,” [Stephen] Curry said. “We would deal with the consequences later but we were not going to play.”

Curry, David Lee, Jermaine O’Neal and Draymond Green were all reportedly involved in the planning of the walkout.

National Basketball Players Association vice president Roger Mason Jr. said at a Tuesday press conference in Los Angeles that players across the league were prepared to boycott in the event that Silver’s punishment of Sterling wasn’t sufficiently harsh.

“We will not be discriminated against,” Mason said. “I reached out to other players around the league and made it clear that the players were ready to boycott the games if this type of action wasn’t something Adam Silver felt was necessary. I’m happy to come here today and say that as players we’re very happy with the decision.”

Since the controversy began last Friday, a number of teams — including the Clippers, Heat, Rockets, and Blazers – have all participated in silent protests against Sterling by wearing their warm-up shirts inside out or donning black socks during their recent playoff games.
http://nba.si.com/2014/04/29/donald-sterling-warriors-boycott-walk-out-adam-silver-clippers/

But ending a relationship is quite different to forcing you to sell a major piece of your property.

Buttermilk could be a valuable addition to our super white perspectives, and I would be glad if he stayed. Arguments or no.

I know that if someone told me that I couldn't associate with black people, our relationship would be over

found an apparent message from the FBI that my browser had been blocked and all my files encrypted and much else. Well, hells bells! Something about looking at porn or copywrited material..

The NHL took over ownership of the Phoenix Coyotes franchise in 2009 after previous owner Jerry Moyes (who had incurred massive financial losses since his purchase of the team in 2005) turned it over to the league after declaring bankruptcy.

Prior to that, Moyes had previously attempted to privately sell the team to Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie, who wanted to relocate the team to Hamilton, Ontario.[4] but the NHL protested that the attempted sale was a violation of league policy and a court agreed.[5]

In the years that followed, the league resisted selling the team to interests that would have moved the team out of the Phoenix area, and on July 3, 2013, reached an agreement that will keep the team in Glendale for the near future.

The sale to IceArizona Acquisition Co., LLC. was completed on August 5, 2013.[6]

He can offer us something new to consider

but the law of the USA (the courts) is going to have to sign off. No league has ever tried what the NBA is trying

Team owners can't just do what they want. They've got to stay inside the contract.

It seems messed up to me that a group can latch on to MILD racist comments

mild?

I know that if someone told me that I couldn't associate with black people,
our relationship would be over.

In any case, it doesn't matter what you or I think.

What matters is the various groups that Mr. Sterling has contracts with.
If he's stepped over the line in a way that impacts the contract or
business relationship, he's going to be **** out of luck.




It will cost him one way or another.

Knowing most everyone talking.

Activist courts have decided that you dont have
the rights that you used to have, that you think you have.