New NBA commish Adam Silver swung his Thor-like hammer down on LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling. He slammed him with a $2.5 million fine, banned him for life from NBA and is seeking to have the NBA Board of Governors force a sale of the Clippers.
To which I say, OUTSTANDING, PVT. PYLE!
I really didn't think the new commish had it in him to make such a quick and unilateral decision. He had to though. Sterling already had a history of alleged racist incidents. This time he was caught on tape and embarrassed the NBA. He insulted a major demographic of NBA followers and fans in general.
To me the only injustice is that Sterling will still profit from the incident. He will add the final sale price of the Clippers to his $1.9 billion bank account. A more fitting punishment, to me, is force the sell of the team and refund Sterling the original price he paid for the team. With the profits from the sell, donate it to charity and let the owners pocket some of the change.
WHAT??? Let the owners pocket some of the blood money???? Yes and I'll tell you why. It's probably the only way the owners would agree to such a drastic move. Otherwise, they'd have no reason to force such a drastic move on Sterling. He's still one of the brotherhood. The rest of the brotherhood just wants him to go away even if it means he pockets millions. So let them, to use a mob term, have a taste of the profit...wet their beaks...that should be incentive to hurt Sterling where it counts.
Why it didn't happen? The lawsuit that would drag on for years and cost millions of dollars. So the owners will be content to let Sterling ride off into the sunset, out of the league and pocket his hundreds of millions. Incident over and that crazy Uncle Donnie will be crated away in the attic and the owners will pretend it never happened.
To which I say, OUTSTANDING, PVT. PYLE!
I really didn't think the new commish had it in him to make such a quick and unilateral decision. He had to though. Sterling already had a history of alleged racist incidents. This time he was caught on tape and embarrassed the NBA. He insulted a major demographic of NBA followers and fans in general.
To me the only injustice is that Sterling will still profit from the incident. He will add the final sale price of the Clippers to his $1.9 billion bank account. A more fitting punishment, to me, is force the sell of the team and refund Sterling the original price he paid for the team. With the profits from the sell, donate it to charity and let the owners pocket some of the change.
WHAT??? Let the owners pocket some of the blood money???? Yes and I'll tell you why. It's probably the only way the owners would agree to such a drastic move. Otherwise, they'd have no reason to force such a drastic move on Sterling. He's still one of the brotherhood. The rest of the brotherhood just wants him to go away even if it means he pockets millions. So let them, to use a mob term, have a taste of the profit...wet their beaks...that should be incentive to hurt Sterling where it counts.
Why it didn't happen? The lawsuit that would drag on for years and cost millions of dollars. So the owners will be content to let Sterling ride off into the sunset, out of the league and pocket his hundreds of millions. Incident over and that crazy Uncle Donnie will be crated away in the attic and the owners will pretend it never happened.
