Thread about racist NBA team owners

[Kidlicious]

You have one friend who is Black?

Token

[MRT144]

You have one friend who is Black?

I don't have any.

I don't live i place where there's a lot of black people and the city is actually kind of segregated by economics of which black people tend to be on the lower end.

Remember Al, you can't generalize filthadelphia to every place.

I've had some in the past but that was before I moved.

[Tuberski]

Ok. Then, JR, the problem is that many of the same people condemning Sterling have said similar things, in public and in full view of the NBA, and yet the NBA hasn't banned them from attending games. The fine I can see, the rest of this, just goes well beyond what I can see as a proportionate response. The league argues this has hurt their brand? Fine, then fine the man.

Because those other people aren't part of the NBA?

ACK!

[Al B. Sure!]

I don't live i place where there's a lot of black people

True. The Sonics moved to Oklahoma City.

[Uncle Sparky]

Originally Posted by Uncle Sparky View Post

I thought basketball was one of those sports where team owners buy & sell players - I think Sterling would be a perfect owner.

That mentality is exactly why he should not be allowed to own a franchise.

But wouldn't that be the way to strip his team of value? The league could declare all his players free agents, and they could go to the highest bidder. He could try to build a 3rd or 4th rate team, but the value of the team franchise would be greatly diminished. Currently, his punishment would include his share of 1/2 billion USD. Why can't someone punish me like that???

[Sava]

Between the BK and Speer posts, it's hard to tell if anyone posted this yet:

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is battling cancer, sources have confirmed to ESPN.com. The news was first reported by the New York Post. The Post, citing sources, reported that the 80-year-old Sterling has been battling prostate cancer for an extended period of time.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10871033/los-angeles-clippers-owner-donald-sterling-cancer

So a lifetime ban won't actually last that long.

[rah]

I heard this on SportsCenter this morning. It was the first time I can remember it being mentioned.

And people do beat prostrate cancer. But if the NBA could expand their penalty to include withholding treatment......................

[Sava]

And people do beat prostrate cancer. But if the NBA could expand their penalty to include withholding treatment......................

If you can convince Guy, I'll get on board with this.

[rah]

Well he does have a crap load of money, so I guess he could always just get treatment on the black market.

[Sava]

the black market.

Just as long as they don't instagram any of the pics, I suppose.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Y'all do realize that this "reporting" that he has prostate cancer is his moronic attempt to try to get sympathy from folks? Yes, he's a horrible racist, but he has cancer, people!!

[rah]

I haven't seen any outpouring of sympathy. But yes it was a silly attempt.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well, of course not. But that's the only reason for its "outing".

I mean its prostate cancer. It's not like he has pancreatic cancer and only 6 months to live or anything.

[molly bloom]

You have one friend who is Black?

No.

Listen carefully, dimbo- Sister Bendy assumed I didn't have any friends who were not sparkling white.

I mentioned one who wasn't.

He then managed to forget her gender in another post while simultaneously accusing me of not treating her as a friend and only using her for street cred points with him.

Got it ?

In any case I don't tend to clump my friends together by their skin colouring or ethnicity or race.

[ColdWizard]

"You want another big donation? Then I'll be needing another award."

LOS ANGELES -- The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP resigned Thursday, following outrage over a decision he later reversed to give Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling an award for promoting civil rights.

Leon Jenkins was to honor Sterling later this month, but rescinded that offer Monday after a recording surfaced over the weekend on which Sterling disparaged black men.

In a letter to the national leader of the nation's oldest civil rights organization, Jenkins wrote that he resigned "to separate the Los Angeles NAACP and the NAACP from the negative exposure I have caused."

A telephone message and email seeking comment after business hours from the Los Angeles chapter were not immediately returned.

Even before the recording, the decision to give Sterling a "lifetime achievement award" May 15 at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Los Angeles chapter had been questioned by some civil rights activists, who cited allegations of discrimination in Sterling's past.

The U.S. Justice Department sued Sterling in August 2006, alleging housing discrimination in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles. In November 2009, Sterling agreed to pay $2.7 million to settle allegations that he refused to rent apartments to Hispanics and blacks.

Also in 2009, the year after Jenkins was first elected president in Los Angeles, the chapter first honored Sterling with a similar achievement award.

Branches of the NAACP -- there are more than 50 in California alone -- operate with considerable autonomy. In a statement accompanying the resignation announcement, the national NAACP said it is "developing guidelines for its branches to help them in their award selection process."

Jenkins said that Sterling had been selected owing to his history of donating to minority charities and giving game tickets to inner-city children. The Donald T. Sterling Charitable Foundation gave $5,000 to the NAACP's Los Angeles chapter in 2010, according to tax records. There were no further NAACP contributions in subsequent years for which records were available.

After the recording of Sterling having a private conversation with a woman became public, Jenkins backtracked.

"There is a personal, economic and social price that Mr. Sterling must pay for his attempt to turn back the clock on race relations," he said Monday.

[...Stuff about bans, fines, cancer, result of games...]

Reacting to the announcement, local activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson said the NAACP's Los Angeles chapter needed to become "fully transparent and accountable to its members and community and not to dubious corporate donors."

Jenkins had his own legal problems, which also came into focus this week. For years, he has been banned from practicing law in California based on allegations of corruption when he was a young judge in Detroit.

In 1988, federal prosecutors charged Jenkins with extortion and racketeering conspiracy, saying he requested and received money, jewelry, a handgun and other gifts to dismiss traffic tickets and other misdemeanors. While Jenkins was acquitted after two trials, in 1991 the Michigan Supreme Court removed him as a judge.

He had "systematically and routinely sold his office and his public trust," then-Chief Justice Michael Cavanagh said at the time.

In April, three judges with California's State Bar Court denied Jenkins' most recent request to practice law again. The judges lauded Jenkins' volunteer work with the NAACP and other organizations, but they cited several instances in which they said he misrepresented his finances or other aspects of his personal life.

"Despite Jenkins' impressive good character evidence and community service, he continues to commit errors in judgment that call into question his rehabilitation and present good moral character," the judges wrote.

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