Donald sterling has been banned from the NBA
that is according to a press conference that just happened
with Adam Silver making these statements now Adam Silver is the NBA commissioner
and he also makes note other consequences
that sterling will have to face as a result of the tape that was released
over the weekend
where he was making racist comments against black people now let's go to the
first video you'll get a sense of what the punishment will be
take a look effective immediately when I am banning
mister sterling it for life
from any association with the Clippers organization
or the NBA 8
mister sterling may not attend any NBA games or practices
way he may not be present
that any Clippers facility when he may not participate
in any business for player personnel decisions
involving the team it
he will also be barred from attending NBA Board of Governors meetings
where participating in any other League
activity it I'm also finding mister sterling
2.5 million dollars the maximum amount
allowed under the NBA constitution so that seems like a pretty
tough punishment now they're trying to force a.m. had to sell his franchise
and who knows if he's actually gonna do it I would assume that with all the
restrictions that he has to face now
he probably has an incentive to go ahead and sell what do you guys think I think
it's where that the NBA commissioner is also knows for rock to
yeah it looks like an x-files villainous from another planet
no I'm side nor these riches okay
power outlet girl it took me a while to
bald white guy with a shaved it you know I could pale too and maybe a little
today and I think you'd be brought to hold on
yeah okay well it does seem getting back to you
okay it does seem like this is a pretty harsh punishment and I'm surprised
to find out that the NBA's you know worst possible fine they got
come about what has checkpoint five million dollars they haven't upgraded
their fines to match the
billion dollar value of these companies and these owners personally
as a huge NBA fan a basketball fan I think they did this
absolutely perfectly you know Adam sorry this is his first year
he did not intend on having a massive crisis like this the first week in the
playoffs yeah this guy
going well he came down he lay down the hammer I don't know what else he could
have done
I actually I joked about yesterday about saying if they really want to publicly
shame the guy you know what four sum to show up at the Staples Center tonight
keep his big bat head on the jumbotron the entire time and let everyone who
love me yeah
I mean that you but if there was a half we just ignore it but we're
but I think that I think the guy did a really really great job here yeah I
think that this is an appropriate response to what happened I think the
Clippers also had an appropriate response by wearing the generic
red t-shirts kinda like a silent protest to say that hey we're sticking together
and were against the types of comments that he made
I'm so I think that the response so far has been appropriate but there has been
a response
from Mark Cuban I'm he is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks
I'm not sure I agree with what I want to get the perspective of everyone else
I'm so let me tell you what he says he says I think there's a constitution for
a reason right
because this is a very slippery slope what Donald did was wrong it was a poor
a poor and
there's no place for racism in the NBA any business
I'm associated with and I don't want to be associated with people who have that
position okay so it's clear that is against a statement
but he also continues but at the same time that's a decision I made
I think you've got to be very very careful when you start making blanket
statements about what people say and pink
as opposed to what they do with a very very slippery slope
again there's no excuse for his positions there's no excuse for what he
said
there's no excuse for anybody to support racism there's no place for it in our
league
but there's a very very slippery slope so he keeps discussing the slippery
slope
so disregard right before we went out here he did tweet that he agrees are 100
percent correct
week what happened he said so he did backtrack from this idea that it's a
slippery so I think partly
he did the slippery slope think he gets in trouble all the time not for racism
but he's always arguing that wraps
he's a very controversial that but yes or have retracted that
orlando is also talking about in in part about this being
you know i think is a private comments in a min and his private home
and by the way yesterday when did acknowledge that he was the man on the
tape the NBA investigation found that he was the person speaking on the tape so
that's been established
but with cuban saying you know he's a private person
making private comments in his own home when he believes he has privacy so
I think that might be the this slippery slope that is talking about but you know
like you were saying earlier
you know in the aged video in HD camera found in the age of Twitter
you know you cannot get away with the racists cannot no longer get away with
these kinds of statements to get
go ahead the wrong I think the problem is that he has a history of doing this
right now
obviously he was sued by was Elgin Baylor he sued him he said that he was
running the Clippers like a plantation
the Department of Justice suing him pay more actually reexamination what he
didn't agree man wrongdoing in that he has paid a settlement fine
where he was discriminating a slumlord he was keeping blacks and Hispanics out
of his property
so he's got a history of this and everyone who anybody who's ever had an
interaction with him
I you'll be a news person or another sports figure they all have the same
report this case a piece a shit
right this gets garbage and as a whole
it was no surprise but I think the reason why they kept him in the league
for so long is because I'm real except somebody shadier than them around you
know
and a hit in mind having his money right that said that might have is money 10
years on the job but I sure hope that's true that the other owners were like
keep this freaking clown because it doesn't bring good players to his team
is running at market prices on players on what you'd like to pay
so he doesn't like to pay czar drives player prices down yes we would do was
he wouldn't
he was running like a slum lord would run something right just trying to suck
money out of it he wasn't he didn't care about building a good product
being the LA Clippers what he would do is like whenever somebody didn't get
good
he wins that a pain that more money would just get rid them trade them away
whatever
and the Clippers stage skinny but as soon as the little in the in recent
history the LA Lakers started to not be good
and they're going to have a they're having their bad seasons and somebody
said to him
now's the time to spend the money you make more money now
with the better team than we used to make with the sheeting so that's why he
started to get better place that's why the Clippers are better now
because it's just more money for him to be better now but with if there was more
money in it for him to have a shitty team he would
and that's the producers yeah I had to burn for its like the producers yeah
but the you know again the whole you get back to your private conversations now I
understand why Mark Cuban
as saying that because you know there's a audio tape on him saying some shit
right somewhere right so that's why he was saying that and I know that is audio
tape at me saying shit so
yeah I it is clear that there is a horrible with this guy is an Italian
horrible what he said was
this was a private conversation that was illegally recorded
and it just you maybe he was drunk maybe he was on prescription drugs maybe he
who knows maybe he was but I don't know but it just seems
that there was enough other stuff to get where this guy didn't have to use this
like I just think that this a formal is it is is like the wrong way to get you
prepared to fix a problem
I think yeah I think that this recording on him
just made it's so clear how hateful here's
it's unavoidable right so the housing discrimination
for some work for some reason I can definitely see people
somehow defending him sing like no it was a misinterpretation he didn't plead
guilty to that he did not admit to that
but he settled it because you know you want to deal with it anymore right but
with this case
it's his boys saying terrible things about a particular group of people
its undeniable and you know what I think the NBA's reaction to it in response to
it was
absolutely appropriate you don't want someone like that who feel this way
about african-americans
and black people to have the ability to make decisions
over players are black you don't want