Story being reported today is that if the punishment had been anything less than lifetime ban/forced sale the Golden State players (not the Clippers) were going to go through warmups, national anthem, starting lineup announcement, and tip off as normal, and then as soon as the ball was tossed all 15 of them were going to turn their backs and walk off the court.
And what does this prove? This is a second wrong not making a right.
Would've been great for Sterling, actually.
Fans would've already bought tickets and they all would've left early so he wouldn't have to pay as much for electricity/etc. for an entire game.
I think this all goes back to this being simply a PR issue for the league and the players. Everyone in the NBA circle knew that Sterling held these views, but until saturday 80% of the nation didn't have any idea who he was. Then the story breaks and everyone knows that one NBA owner is a racist.
With what, 90% of the players being black, it just puts them in an unncecessary position of having to work for a group that has a public clown in it's rank. I think the league just bailed the players out from having to make some outrageous showcase about not wanting to work for a racist.
Refunds would undoubtedly been issued. But it goes beyond that. Hurting Sterling in the piggy bank is nigh impossible. The man is wealthy, the end. But also hurting the fans, many of whom have shown great displeasure with Sterling this past week, is a stupid precedent to set. It also does nothing for your own team's fan and ownership that has supported you this past season. A boycott of a playoff game is an extremely selfish move veiled under a noble cause. But, it does nothing but cause more collateral damage than anything.
Whitlock is saying, yes the guy is a racist ******* and deserves some type of punishment, but was recorded without consent which is illegal.
So Sterling is a morally bankrupt, racist *****bag, but expressed his opinion privately. While someone recorded it illegally. Both parties involved are wrong, but for different reasons.
The circumstances of the recording are unknown at this point, and the matter of Sterling not consenting to the recording is being disputed. If the recording was, in fact, made with his consent (indeed, apparently at his behest) then the privacy issue is moot.
shmenguin wrote:
tifosi77 wrote:
shmenguin wrote:
no one would have boycotted.
Story being reported today is that if the punishment had been anything less than lifetime ban/forced sale the Golden State players (not the Clippers) were going to go through warmups, national anthem, starting lineup announcement, and tip off as normal, and then as soon as the ball was tossed all 15 of them were going to turn their backs and walk off the court.
in the spirit of "easy to say. hard to actually do", i call shenanigans.
Fair play - it's easy to talk big after the fact. But the players are on record saying that was their plan.
Story being reported today is that if the punishment had been anything less than lifetime ban/forced sale the Golden State players (not the Clippers) were going to go through warmups, national anthem, starting lineup announcement, and tip off as normal, and then as soon as the ball was tossed all 15 of them were going to turn their backs and walk off the court.
To me that would have sucked, because of the fans. They paid a lot of money for the game to and support the team, and to just walk away, it would have been crap. There are so many other ways to protest without hurting the fans.
If there's anything that we can all agree on, its that no one likes Crankshaft.
Is he the one who bashed the Pens juju thread?
I'm right here - you can ask me, lol. And no...I made one comment the one day and it snowballed. But I have been an enforcer of the juju and the GDT manager for a while now. I've embraced it.
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I did and there were 3 more pages about it. I like that article two pages back. 5 year ban would have been good. This going to court is not good for the NBA.
