2013-2014 Chicago Bulls Thread

[Cubswin11]

Is there a process for it, like 2/3 of the other owners voting him out?

No idea, but I doubt there's anything formal they can do to him outside of a fine. I'm sure he's getting more than enough pressure from other owners/the league to seriously start the process to sell the team though and accept the first offer that's reasonable, which he will make an ass load of money off of. If the Bucks just got $550 or whatever he can probably get somewhere around $1.5 billion. If it was announced the Clippers were on the block to be sold, there wouldn't be a shortage of groups trying to get in on that.

[Andy]

Someone put on Twitter that the NBA constitution only allows the league to force a sale if the owner is in money trouble. I'm sure they can suspend him though.

[Ryne Ween]

Nobody cared about sterling until his pretend girlfriend set him up and it became a pr issue. Doc Rivers didn't care and Chris Paul didn't care. Everybody knew he was racist. This all came out a while ago.

[RynoRules]

I'd be willing to bet the owners can force a fellow owner to sell under a "best interests of the Association" type clause.

[Ryne Ween]

I'd be willing to bet the owners can force a fellow owner to sell under a "best interests of the Association" type clause.

 

Id be willing to bet anything against you on that.

[Derwood]

There has to be another way to oust an owner besides "he has money troubles". If the owner of the Kings went on a killing spree, the league wouldn't be like "welp, he still has money, sooooooo"

[Wilson A2000]

I actually think the players can influence what Sterling does more than the league. If the Clippers come together and say they will never play another game for him until he promises to sell the team, they would force his hand. I doubt the league can do anything but fine and suspend him and encourage him to sell. I hope the Clippers win a championship as soon as Sterling sells too. Edited April 27, 2014 by Wilson A2000

[Ryne Ween]

The fact that the guy is racist is not news. This was already known. The guy is a pos but he didn't do anything illegal. He was having a private conversation and it's not illegal to ask your girlfriend to not associate with a minority. So I don't think you can try to take away a company he owns for being racist. Unless they can show some actual discrimination assuming of course that the owner is accountable in the nba bylaws. Wouldn't really make sense or the bylaws to have a lot of teeth in them as relates to the owners.

[Ryne Ween]

I actually think the players can influence what Sterling does more than the league. If the Clippers come together and say they will never play another game for him until he promises to sell the team, they would force his hand. I doubt the league can do anything but fine and suspend him and encourage him to sell. I hope the Clippers win a championship as soon as Sterling sells too.

 

The nba shares a lot of revenue. It doesn't need to be the clippers the pressure shouldn't be on those players. That's why Lebron and Kobe intimating that he wouldn't play if he were a clipper. That's bs both of those guys would play and Lebron could boycott his games I he felt so strongly.

[SouthSideRyan]

The fact that the guy is racist is not news. This was already known. The guy is a pos but he didn't do anything illegal. He was having a private conversation and it's not illegal to ask your girlfriend to not associate with a minority. So I don't think you can try to take away a company he owns for being racist. Unless they can show some actual discrimination assuming of course that the owner is accountable in the nba bylaws. Wouldn't really make sense or the bylaws to have a lot of teeth in them as relates to the owners.

 

It's not just a run of the mill company owner. He's a member of a cartel. When his actions reflect poorly on that cartel and affect the other members' business they have the right to act upon it.

[davell]

They can't force him to sell. He bought the team for less than 20 mill and its now worth close to a billion. So I doubt he's in financial trouble. While its always POSSIBLE to find a clause somewhere that allows for a suspension, the other owners would likely resist anyway. In fear of something else coming up and a new precedent leads to them getting suspended themselves.

 

Sterling is old, I hope they make enough hell for him to sell. But they're not going to be able to force him to legally. He could tie it up in litigation for the rest of his life, if he wants to.

 

I originally did NOT want the players to sit out. Now I think I'm changing my mind on that. The Civil Rights Act very likely overcomes the player contracts and they'd still get paid. To me, a united front here may be the closest thing there is to forcing him out.

[Ryne Ween]

The point remains that this is not new. Everybody knew that this is what a private don sterling conversation regarding race would sound like. Now all of a sudden they need to boycott? The nba has housed a known racist for decades. He called his players n words same as marge schott.

 

I follow the league closely. I only know the names of a few owners. I knew sterling because of the many accusations of racism and bizarre behavior.

 

The guy is 81 and likely has almost nothing to do with the clippers beside having great seats.. It sucks that this guy became the story when LAC is one of the most fun teams to watch that i can remember. This man will die soon. The outcry against this guy and what he said is universal. I think this shows that the nba community agrees that his comments are ridiculous. So i hope this goes away and the playoffs take the stage.

[Wilson A2000]

The point remains that this is not new. Everybody knew that this is what a private don sterling conversation regarding race would sound like. Now all of a sudden they need to boycott? The nba has housed a known racist for decades. He called his players n words same as marge schott.

 

Yes everyone knew he was like this. But if you think there is no difference between what people knew about him and what he says on tape and about Magic Johnson, you are crazy. It's one thing to be a racist toward someone else, but when he is a racist toward you and one of the most recognizable figures in L.A., you will get a ton more media attention.

 

Yet the NAACP of Los Angeles is planning on giving Sterling a Lifetime Achievement Award on May 15th. Might want to rethink that.

Edited April 27, 2014 by Wilson A2000

[Ryne Ween]

It's different from the standpoint of the nba league office needin to react strongly lest they appear racially insensitive. I agree this is different than the other sterling stuff. But it's not different from an I'm Doc Rivers and I'm knowingly employed by a unambiguously confirmed racist standpoint. It's not different from a I'm Lebron James and I play in a league with at least one confirmed racist owner standpoint.

 

Sterling was always a confirmed racist since at least the 70s when he called his players n words and this was reported I believe with witnesses at the time. But now, based on my amateur interpretation of the TMZ audio, a very confused potentially senile old man having trouble understanding his own confusing and ignorant thoughts on race. Almost like he feels he needs to maintain an aura of racism that may or may not be there just the same as he will evidently pay 1.8mln to keep an exotic beauty around while explicitly stating he is ok with her privately banging black dudes.

 

It's just a bizarre case. Added in all my concerns about a private conversation being secretly recorded an used against somebody financially. Hard to square how I feel about that. I would feel differently about this if there is some cases about the clippers workplace discrimination in team player coach or administrative positions. However I am not aware of any and certainly the league office has done nothing to highlight these things in the past (Isaiah Thomas James Dolan etc).

 

Hopefully the league will say this "Donald sterling has agreed to step down as chairman of the clippers and the league together with the sterling family will look to resolve his ownership of the team." Just pretend like stepping down as chairman means something.

[Ryne Ween]

Poor Vince carter getting overshadowed by this [expletive].

[Soul]

Way to come out hot you clowns

[SpongeWorthy]

The defense to start games has been an atrocity

 

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[Guest]

They scored!!

[Ryne Ween]

Attack with the bigs now. They have 2 each. Use the advantage. Jimmy go to whole they will be soft inside. Attack jimmy.

[Andy]

Someone forgot to read the part of the scouting report that said "If there's one guy on this [expletive] team you don't leave wide open it's Bradley Beal"

[Ryne Ween]

Need less Kirk.

[Ryne Ween]

Never seen a team terrorize another team with steal transition dunks like this. If the bulls are able to extend a possession long enough to achieve a shot attempt they usually win.

[KaiserCesar]

Without Gibson this could be a 30 pt game.

[Ryne Ween]

Without Gibson this could be a 30 pt game.

 

Get Kirk out of the [expletive] game.

[SpongeWorthy]

The vaunted Thibs D has given up 50+ points in the last three first halves (48 in game 1) of this series.

 

This Wizards team is an average offense at best.