From
where I sit it looks like the NBA is facing a major headache...
What
options does the league really have to deal with Donald Sterling?
Can they force him to sell his team? Not really, and even if they do
that's going to cause more problems for the players and fans than for
Sterling himself. Given the level of entertainment generated by the
Clippers it wouldn't be fair to see the team sold to anyone who was
going to do less with the franchise. For the first time in their
history the Clippers are dominating LA and it would be terrible to
have the team dismantled because the owner is allegedly a racist
jerk. Then there's the word 'allegedly'. All of this is from an
audio recording. It's really not all that hard to rearrange audio to
make it sound completely different from the original intent. But
Sterling has remained bizarrely silent. Even when caught red handed,
most offenders will offer up immediate denials, followed by a tearful
apology and assurances of upcoming counselling. There's been none of
that from Sterling. The NAACP has revoked Sterling's lifetime
achievement award, and even that seems strange. How could someone so
brutally racist be in line for a lifetime award from a organization
focused on equality? Add to all of this the NBA is finally giving
it's response on Tuesday, a full 4 days after all this started. Of
course all this is happening to the most sad-sack team in the NBA.
Just when the Clippers seemed to have all their ducks in a row, they
turn around and shoot them.
At
least that's how I see it and I sit in the cheap seats.
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