roger mason jr, man! vice president of the npbasteve nash also present. KAJ!
― moullet, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
nba shd force sterling to sell then collude with the bidders to lowball him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
tyson chandler. only guys on vacation : P
― moullet, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
Knicks owner James Dolan applauds the decision, says "we as a league must stand together in condemning this ignorance."
*blues lick*
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
damn, that clippers.com site!NBA decided to come hard with this.Can't even be cynical about it: good for the league.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
oh wow, he just basically made it sound like the forced sale was already all but a done deal -- he said he "fully expects" to get the support he needs to remove him, didn't even leave the possibility open.
Which I take to means he's talked to all the owners and at least 75% said they'd vote to oust Sterling.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Any cynical thought that pops into my head about this is tempered by "it wasn't that long ago that they wouldn't have even done something like this cynically"
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA 1mOn ownership super majority needed to vote Sterling out, one Board of Governor tells Yahoo: "Adam has the votes - all of them, I believe."
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10857580/donald-sterling-los-angeles-clippers-owner-receives-life-ban-nba
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Hurting I think u have been killing it recently, keep it up my man.
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3520643610001/jim-gray-donald-sterling-says-clippers-not-for-sale/#sp=show-clips
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
damn, my non-basketball-watching mom just called to talk about thisprimary message was "i remember 25 years ago this would've been no issue at all"she was kinda excited
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
Do you think Stern misses being commish?
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
dreaming about how he wouldve swept this all under the rug
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
/adam-silver-says-u-rong-don
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
xp ty leee
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
next ban dolan
― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:21 PM
http://www.latostadora.com/generados/tiendas/2753/dibujos/121719.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Dan Snyder is the worst now I guess, but the Magic owner is really special too.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
jim gray is on fox news now? lol what a perfect fit
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
i think the r-skins thing is actually worse since it's embedded into the culture of the NFL so deeply that it's more difficult to dislodge. sterling said horrible things but the NBA just straightaway booted him. the NFL has all their whining about tradition and "it's a difficult issue".
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
http://creativeforensic.com/Arlo%20ABC2.jpg
"it's not him"
― am0n, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
honestly all the credit in the world to silver and the league (love that mark cuban is already toeing the line) but this would have been a hell of a lot more interesting if the comments came from one of their 40 year old venture capitalist owners rather than one of their 80 year old got in on the ground floor owners.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG will be forced to change the name when they get to the conference finals/superbowl and the NFL gets too embarrassed about this shitthe more in the national public eye they are for non sports fans the more likely it changes
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
40-year-old VC dudes who think this stuff are a lot less likely to say it as openly and in as uncouched terms as he did, even in private.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
well yes, i genuinely believe he is the only owner who is this dumb
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
just saying that if any of the 30 can be leveraged out of existing, sterling tops the list
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:39 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh I mean Snyder is just a horrible person in general, the team name is just one thing
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
so will the Andy Roesner backpedal on his paycheck-protecting Sterling-supportive comments from the other day, or is he gonna have a Bodyguard moment and carry Sterling off in his arms?
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
LeBron's response(s) to all this has made me realize I've gone from actively disliking him to really liking him. Lebron is not a horrible person!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
i had forgotten exactly what Schott's punishments were. talk about recidivism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Schott#Controversies
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
lebron is a super chill bro, i just wish he'd brought his pals wade and bosh to cleveland but then again speaking of shitty owners...
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
xp he's taken his talents... to your heart
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
http://ballislife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/trollface.jpg
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152414099224887&id=35285954886
frankie muniz weighs in
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
@mollyesqueNate Silver’s former partner -> RT @nachofiesta: A Silver I can respect.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
silver should have walked off the podium doing the sam cassell dance
Zach Lowe @ZachLowe_NBA 28mLeague sources say Silver/league, not Sterling, would control Clips sales process in event Silver gets the required 3/4 vote to force it.
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA 35mBottom line: There isn't a franchise that could withstand public backlash of failing to vote w/ Adam Silver on Donald Sterling's ouster.
Arash Markazi @ArashMarkazi 26mClippers won't be issuing a statement from Donald Sterling. "He's not a part of the team anymore."
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
So many owners are coming out echoing Cuban's "100% suppport" for Silver's decision; I can't see any of them choosing to stand in the way of forcing Sterling to sell if only for the backlash they'd get.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
xp yep Woj bottom line otm
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
as i just read elsewhere, this is how you run a cartel
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
haha i was thinking the same thing
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
Would really like to read a good longform piece on his tenure with the Clips now. Seems like that will probably happen.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
uh the clippers are FIVE HUNDRED PLUS games below .500 as a franchise. If they repeated this season over and over again they'd hit .500 in 2030.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
good christ
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
also a lot of credit should go to the players, i haven't seen the nbpa press conference but i guess roger mason basically said all the playoff teams were gonna boycott if silver didn't come out like this
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
LeBron's response(s) to all this has made me realize I've gone from actively disliking him to really liking him. Lebron is not a horrible person!― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, April 29, 2014
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, April 29, 2014
don't be fooled . . .
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/371/430/f8e.gif
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
The thing that disturbs me most about the tape is that Sterling mainly seems to be upset because others in his circle were giving him grief for his mistress associating with black people. I assume this circle is nothing but rich white guys. Who are still alive and still in power and still racist as fuck. Barf.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Right, they were shitty as fuck most of the time and he was notoriously cheap with them. All the more reason I feel like this would make an entertaining story.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
this will be an interesting, likely public, fight. sterling: "clippers not for sale."
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Kinda bummed all those guys are gonna still be on the Clippers next year
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
xp ftr he said that before silver's announcement
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link