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JUST IN: @NBCNews confirms that Donald Sterling has been suspended indefinitely and fined $5M, according to a senior NBA official.

Good! (although I'd be happier if they banned him permanently)

NBA bans Clippers owner Sterling for life

Basketball Commissioner Adam Silver slapped Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling with a
lifetime ban from the sport and a $2.5 million fine Tuesday over racist remarks attributed to Sterling.

Silver said the National Basketball Association "will begin immediately" to force Sterling to sell
the team, which he has owned since the 1980s. Sterling admitted it was his voice on the recording,
Silver said.

Before Tuesday's announcement, the head of the league's players association had called for Silver
to hit Sterling with the most severe penalties.

"When a hint of cancer is shown, you have to cut it out immediately, and I feel that's where the
players are today," Kevin Johnson, the former all-star who is the chairman of the National Basketball
Players Association's executive committee, told CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."

My my no hearings and no due process how amazing and I can only hope that Sterling have his lawyers in Federal courts asking for an injunction to be issue.

My my no hearings and no due process how amazing and I can only hope that Sterling have his lawyers in Federal courts asking for an injunction to be issue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/sports/basketball/nba-donald-sterling-los-angeles-clippers.html?_r=0


That tenure began in 1981 when he bought the San Diego Clippers at the encouragement of Jerry Buss, the Lakers’ owner at the time. Sterling had lent financial help, buying some apartment buildings from Buss, when Buss needed money to buy the Los Angeles Lakers and the Forum in 1979. But by 1984 Sterling had made a spectacle of himself by moving his franchise to Los Angeles without league approval.

For that, David Stern, then the N.B.A. commissioner, fined him $25 million. Sterling sued the league for $100 million, prompting Stern to reduce the fine to $6 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/sports/basketball/nba-donald-sterling-los-angeles-clippers.html?_r=0

Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was among those cautioning the league to move carefully, calling it “a very, very slippery slope” when owners are disciplined for their words. But, after the decision, Cuban expressed full support of the move.

“What Donald said was wrong,” Cuban told reporters Tuesday. “It was abhorrent. There’s no place for racism in the N.B.A., any business I’m associated with, and I don’t want to be associated with people who have that position. But at the same time that’s a decision I make. I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.”

.ya, I think it is safe to say that this is war, one that the NBA may well lose.

The NBA is not a democracy. The NBA isn't a nonprofit charity. It's a for-profit league.

She is perhaps most well-known for her controversial behavior during her tenure as owner of the Reds, which included slurs towards African-Americans, Jews, and the Japanese. She was banned from managing the team by the MLB from 1996 through 1998 due to statements in support of German domestic policies of Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler; shortly afterwards, she sold the majority of her share in the team.

A sports law and ethics expert, as well as a source familiar with NFL operations, told The Indianapolis Star that the policy could lead Goodell to also ask about Irsay's relationship and associations outside of the Colts, including with an Indianapolis woman with a drug history of her own — a woman who died of a suspected drug overdose two weeks before Irsay's arrest. Her body was found in a $139,500 townhouse Irsay gave her last August.

Your zeal to champion individual rights sometimes aligns you with some horrible causes from my perspective.

Magic's discretions has nothing to do with him contacting HIV.

Two lawyers repeat lawyers are the ones who authenticated the audio recordings!!!!!!!!
Bullshit on top of bullshit