NBA Commissioner: Sterling Is Banned for Life, Fined 2.5 Million

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Guess who will look at it this way?

Another senseless act of racism against a white man just to make an example of him. How dare the league ban him from participating in his own business.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

I was thinking the same thing. I'd feel better if there was a history of his racism affecting players treatment/salaries or something else. Maybe there is and I just don't know about it? I guess the NBA has the right to do whatever they want but he didn't aim it at anyone in the organization as I saw it.

I think there is.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2042877-a-brief-history-of-donald-sterlings-alleged-racism

In 2006, "The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday sued Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald Sterling for housing discrimination, claiming he refused to rent apartments to blacks and families with children," according to The Associated Press (via ESPN).

That was swept under the rug soon enough. Three years later, Sterling, "agreed to pay a record $2.725 million to settle [the] allegations," according to the Los Angeles Times' Scott Glover.

Former general manager Elgin Baylor, who spent 22 years with the organization and is an NBA Hall of Famer, filed a wrongful termination suit in 2010 that included further allegations of racism, per the Los Angeles Times' Lisa Dillman:

In his deposition, Baylor spoke about what he called Sterling's 'plantation mentality,' alleging the owner in the late 1990s rejected a coaching candidate, Jim Brewer, because of race. Baylor quoted Sterling as saying: 'Personally, I would like to have a white Southern coach coaching poor black players.'

But it doesn't stop there. Former Clippers player Baron Davis (2008-2011) recently recalled during an interview with the Grantland podcast The Moment with Brian Koppelman how Sterling used to heckle him while he was with the franchise, even to the point of making him lose his love for basketball:

When Manning’s agent told Sterling that the offer was unacceptable, Sterling responded by saying it was a lot of money. Said Baylor, in the deposition: “Donald T. said, ‘Well that’s a lot of money for a poor black ... ' -- I think he said kid. For a poor black kid I think. For a poor black something, kid or boy or something. Poor black. Poor black. Danny was upset. So Danny just stormed out. He just stormed out of the place. Where he went, I don’t know. He never came back to the house.”

“If we were in layup lines and he wasn’t around, I’d be in a great mood. As soon as he walked into the arena, I’d get like the worst anxiety and I never had anxiety playing. ... I couldn’t do it... I can’t find a way function. Like, not with this man sitting here. Knowing that he hates me.”

So there's more issues than just a racist conversation.

Guess who will look at it this way?

Another senseless act of racism against a white man just to make an example of him. How dare the league ban him from participating in his own business.

You're late, he's already being defended.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

You're late, he's already being defended.

Thank goodness! Racists are people too.

[decocker 7,198]

Thank goodness! Racists are people too.

purty soon, white people won't even be allowed to be white anymore, we're all gonna have to get boehner tans and be renamed as the oompa loompa race.

Edited April 29, 2014 by val erie

[JohnR! 5,495]

purty soon, white people won't even be allowed to be white anymore, we're all gonna have to get boehner tans and be renamed as the oompa loompa race.

We will all be orange, which will inevitably cause protests across the ocean, in Holland....

[spookyturtle 9,466]

purty soon, white people won't even be allowed to be white anymore, we're all gonna have to get boehner tans and be renamed as the oompa loompa race.

Non whites don't realize how difficult it is being white. Here's a poor guy just trying to have a good time banging a mixed raced hottie and she being the gold digger that she is, tries to get him jealous by posing pics or herself with Magic Johnson. He knows that Magic has him beat in the manhood department, so naturally, he doesn't want him around. It makes perfect sense.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Non whites don't realize how difficult it is being white. Here's a poor guy just trying to have a good time banging a mixed raced hottie and she being the gold digger that she is, tries to get him jealous by posing pics or herself with Magic Johnson. He knows that Magic has him beat in the manhood department, so naturally, he doesn't want him around. It makes perfect sense.

Score!

[JohnR! 5,495]

Non whites don't realize how difficult it is being white. Here's a poor guy just trying to have a good time banging a mixed raced hottie and she being the gold digger that she is, tries to get him jealous by posing pics or herself with Magic Johnson. He knows that Magic has him beat in the manhood department, so naturally, he doesn't want him around. It makes perfect sense.

Ding, ding, ding... We have motive...

[decocker 7,198]

Non whites don't realize how difficult it is being white. Here's a poor guy just trying to have a good time banging a mixed raced hottie and she being the gold digger that she is, tries to get him jealous by posing pics or herself with Magic Johnson. He knows that Magic has him beat in the manhood department, so naturally, he doesn't want him around. It makes perfect sense.

if you were the race whisperer like me, you'd know what it is to be an oompa loompa and how harsh the burn of redneck is.

aahh yes, gold diggers and their jungle fever screwing up their own game. lol. women are so evil, i love being one.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Ding, ding, ding... We have motive...

And Magic has a past history of banging so many chicks he can't even keep track.

[luckytxn 2,264]

I hope he isn't still banging a lot of chicks. He has aids.

And Magic has a past history of banging so many chicks he can't even keep track.

[JohnR! 5,495]

I hope he isn't still banging a lot of chicks. He has aids.

I don't believe he has AIDS. He is HIV+, which is not quite the same thing, and hardly a deterrent to a healthy sex life. TMYK.

In any case, it is really something between him and those with whom he is having sex.

Edited April 29, 2014 by Gegel

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I hope he isn't still banging a lot of chicks. He has aids.

Actually he is married and he seems to carry a very special gene that while he has HIV, he has no symptoms and is essentially HIV free. Doctors have studied him and his DNA to learn more. Possible insight into a cure.

[GandD 5,966]

Actually he is married and he seems to carry a very special gene that while he has HIV, he has no symptoms and is essentially HIV free. Doctors have studied him and his DNA to learn more. Possible insight into a cure.

I don't get the tie in with marriage to sex. Are they related or something?

[JohnR! 5,495]

I don't get the tie in with marriage to sex. Are they related or something?

It is a slippery slope....