Clippers Owner Donald Sterling to GF - Don't Bring Black People to My Games,

Magic Johnson, Guggenheim Partners Want To Buy The Clippers

http://www.lakersnation.com/nba-new...partners-want-to-buy-the-clippers/2014/04/28/



The plot continues to thicken in the all the drama and aftermath of the Donald Sterling scandal. Along with President Obama, NBA commissioner Adam Silver, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant putting their two cents in on the issue, Magic Johnson has taken his own stance on the matter.

Not only has Magic voiced his opinion, but the Hall of Famer appears to be making an aggressive move that could surprise a lot of Los Angeles Lakers fans.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports, Magic and his Guggenheim partners want to buy the Los Angeles Clippers:

At this point in time, Sterling’s fate has yet to be decided. Silver addressed the media on Saturday after the news broke about Sterling, but hadn’t come to a decision on what to do about the situation.

With all the backlash from the release of the alleged Sterling recording, a severe punishment is bound to follow. Silver made it clear that a decision would be made and announced on Tuesday in terms of what the NBA intends to do with Sterling.

Although potentially another brilliant acquisition by Magic and the Guggenheim Partners, it is a little surprising that the former face of the Los Angeles Lakers would buy a rival franchise.

Magic has had no problems expressing his opinions over the last few years about the direction of the Lakers franchise and has been criticized for some of the opinions he’s expressed publicly. If he does ultimately become an owner of the Clippers or at least pursues purchasing the team as the report suggests, it’ll be interesting to see the reaction from the Lakers brass and the passionate fan base.
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he is the worst kind of racist....one with money/business owner

 

Doc Rivers’s son had an eloquent response.
(Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)

Jeremiah Rivers, the son of Los Angeles Clippers Coach Doc Rivers, had perhaps the best response of all to the audio tape of Donald Sterling’s racially charged comments.

Jeremiah, the older brother of New Orleans Pelicans guard Austin Rivers and the eldest son of the Clippers coach, took to Twitter for enlightened, thoughtful comments.

People want to #BoycottClippers because of one man? My house has been burned to the ground, animals tortured and burned as well.
— Jeremiah Rivers (@JRivers25) April 26, 2014

Along with anything we ever loved, and held treasured, because of the color of my dads skin. We lost everything and had to start over.
— Jeremiah Rivers (@JRivers25) April 26, 2014

Did we hate the collective of people, culture, and race who’s skin was responsible for our hardship? No.
— Jeremiah Rivers (@JRivers25) April 26, 2014

One man, cannot have the power to make me feel hate towards a group, race, or another persons skin color.
— Jeremiah Rivers (@JRivers25) April 26, 2014

Nor would I allow them to have the power over me to not support the players and coaches that have done nothing wrong.
— Jeremiah Rivers (@JRivers25) April 26, 2014

Hate the man all you want, show him no mercy if you must. But the players who put on that Jersey do it because the love basketball.
— Jeremiah Rivers (@JRivers25) April 26, 2014

They want to win for the city of LA, for there families, friends, fans and themselves.
— Jeremiah Rivers (@JRivers25) April 26, 2014

Racism isn’t born, it’s taught. It is the refuge of ignorance and seeks to divide and destroy.
— Jeremiah Rivers (@JRivers25) April 26, 2014

The clippers need the people, fans, and city of LA more then ever. The team deserves it.
— Jeremiah Rivers (@JRivers25) April 26, 2014

 

The problem with Jeremiah River's point of view is that by supporting the Clippers you are putting money in the pocket of Donald Sterling.

The owner IS the team, not the players. The owner writes the checks. He rents the court and seats that he sells to fans.

And if players decide they'd rather not play for an avowed racist, that's going to kill the team going forward.

Donald Sterling isn't some loudmouth season ticket holder shouting epithets from the luxury boxes.

I respect where Rivers is coming from but his entire sentiment is about supporting his DAD, the coach of the LA Clippers.

His father was warned by players and sports writers privately not to take the Clippers job.

Now he knows why.

 

the blacks will scream lets do this or that but they will go back to going to the game and buying the jerseys

 

But wouldn't Magic Johnson buying it from him be doing the same thing??


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On a related note....More want their mittens on the $800 million franchise...

Floyd Mayweather also wants it, and so does this guy...

Sterling is 81, persona non grata..his bulk money is still in real-estate, best to just sell it to the highest bidder and retire from the NBA business, alltogether.

 

:smt043 *dead*

 

This story just gets more bizarre...

NAACP Willing to 'Forgive' Clippers' Donald Sterling After Yanking Award

http://abcnews.go.com/US/naacp-yanks-donald-sterlings-award-forgive/story?id=23501911

4/28/2014

The NAACP said today they are still willing to work with Los Angeles Clippers' owner Donald Sterling despite yanking an offer of a lifetime achievement award over an audio tape containing racist comments that Sterling allegedly made.

At a news conference today, NAACP Los Angeles president Leon Jenkins said that an audio recording that surfaced this on TMZ, which purportedly had Sterling's voice recorded making racist comments, was "devastating."

But the organization would be open to talking to Sterling, with whom they've worked for nearly 20 years.

"God teaches us to forgive, and the way I look at it, after a sustained period of proof to the African American community that those words don't reflect his heart, I think there's room for forgiveness. I wouldn't be a Christian if I said there wasn't," Jenkins said.

"We are negotiating with him about giving more moneys to African American students at UCLA, and so we are in preliminary discussions," Jenkins said. He also noted, however, they had not spoken since the scandal broke.

The news conference was held to discuss the organization's decision to cancel plans to honor to Sterling with a lifetime achievement in the wake of the tape...


....Jenkins said that the NAACP had been working closely with Sterling on contributions to the black community in southern California, including creating an endowment at a predominantly black college in the LA area and a scholarship program for black students at UCLA.

"The mission of the NAACP is to eradicate discrimination and racial hatred in all its forms, and each year our executive board votes on who we decide that we are going to honor," Jenkins said. "Mr. Sterling has given out a tremendous amount of scholarships, he has invited numerous African American kids to summer camps, and his donations are bigger than other sports franchises."

"That is something that shows that there is a consciousness of the plight of African Americans in this country," Jenkins said.

 

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Welcome to the Finger-Wagging Olympics

http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/



It's time to look at ourselves — and our collective moral outrage — in the mirror, says former NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Moral outrage is exhausting. And dangerous. The whole country has gotten a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome from the newest popular sport of Extreme Finger Wagging. Not to mention the neck strain from Olympic tryouts for Morally Superior Head Shaking. All over the latest in a long line of rich white celebrities to come out of the racist closet. (Was it only a couple days ago that Cliven Bundy said blacks would be better off picking cotton as slaves? And only last June Paula Deen admitted using the “N” word?)
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Yes, I’m angry, too, but not just about the sins of Donald Sterling. I’ve got a list. But let’s start with Sterling. I used to work for him, back in 2000 when I coached for the Clippers for three months. He was congenial, even inviting me to his daughter’s wedding. Nothing happened or was said to indicate he suffered from IPMS (Irritable Plantation Master Syndrome). Since then, a lot has been revealed about Sterling’s business practices:


2006: U.S. Dept. of Justice sued Sterling for housing discrimination. Allegedly, he said, “Black tenants smell and attract vermin.”

2009: He reportedly paid $2.73 million in a Justice Dept. suit alleging he discriminated against blacks, Hispanics, and families with children in his rentals. (He also had to pay an additional nearly $5 million in attorneys fees and costs due to his counsel’s “sometimes outrageous conduct.”)

2009: Clippers executive (and one of the greatest NBA players in history) sued for employment discrimination based on age and race.


And now the poor guy’s girlfriend (undoubtedly ex-girlfriend now) is on tape cajoling him into revealing his racism. Man, what a winding road she led him down to get all of that out. She was like a sexy nanny playing “pin the fried chicken on the Sambo.” She blindfolded him and spun him around until he was just blathering all sorts of incoherent racist sound bites that had the news media peeing themselves with glee.

They caught big game on a slow news day, so they put his head on a pike, dubbed him Lord of the Flies, and danced around him whooping.

I don’t blame them. I’m doing some whooping right now. Racists deserve to be paraded around the modern town square of the television screen so that the rest of us who believe in the American ideals of equality can be reminded that racism is still a disease that we haven’t yet licked.

What bothers me about this whole Donald Sterling affair isn’t just his racism. I’m bothered that everyone acts as if it’s a huge surprise. Now there’s all this dramatic and very public rending of clothing about whether they should keep their expensive Clippers season tickets. Really? All this other stuff I listed above has been going on for years and this ridiculous conversation with his girlfriend is what puts you over the edge? That’s the smoking gun?

He was discriminating against black and Hispanic families for years, preventing them from getting housing. It was public record. We did nothing. Suddenly he says he doesn’t want his girlfriend posing with Magic Johnson on Instagram and we bring out the torches and rope. Shouldn’t we have all called for his resignation back then?

Shouldn’t we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media? Didn’t we just call to task the NSA for intruding into American citizen’s privacy in such an un-American way? Although the impact is similar to Mitt Romney’s comments that were secretly taped, the difference is that Romney was giving a public speech. The making and release of this tape is so sleazy that just listening to it makes me feel like an accomplice to the crime. We didn’t steal the cake but we’re all gorging ourselves on it.

Make no mistake: Donald Sterling is the villain of this story. But he’s just a handmaiden to the bigger evil. In our quest for social justice, we shouldn’t lose sight that racism is the true enemy. He’s just another jerk with more money than brains.

So, if we’re all going to be outraged, let’s be outraged that we weren’t more outraged when his racism was first evident. Let’s be outraged that private conversations between people in an intimate relationship are recorded and publicly played. Let’s be outraged that whoever did the betraying will probably get a book deal, a sitcom, trade recipes with Hoda and Kathie Lee, and soon appear on Celebrity Apprentice and Dancing with the Stars.

The big question is “What should be done next?” I hope Sterling loses his franchise. I hope whoever made this illegal tape is sent to prison. I hope the Clippers continue to be unconditionally supported by their fans. I hope the Clippers realize that the ramblings of an 80-year-old man jealous of his young girlfriend don’t define who they are as individual players or as a team. They aren’t playing for Sterling—they’re playing for themselves, for the fans, for showing the world that neither basketball, nor our American ideals, are defined by a few pathetic men or women.

Let’s use this tawdry incident to remind ourselves of the old saying: “Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.” Instead of being content to punish Sterling and go back to sleep, we need to be inspired to vigilantly seek out, expose, and eliminate racism at its first signs.

 

This. I wish I was half as sexual as these clowns seem to think we all are.

Like that old tune "Money changes everything".

These rich clowns are really self-deluding if they actually believe that they are involved in real 'relationships'.

Do they get a prize? Lol

 

Clippers owner Donald Sterling begs former mistress V. Stiviano to 'make this go away

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/bigot-final-shot-sterling-pleads-team-article-1.1772279

Sterling is scrambling to salvage his reputation and hang on to his team after 15 minutes of tape surfaced over the weekend of him going on a racist tirade about Stiviano publicly associating with African-American athletes.

With his “gold-digger” ex-girlfriend holding 100 hours of damning, unreleased tape recordings, babbling billionaire bigot Donald Sterling is pleading for the mercy rule.

The 80-year-old Los Angeles Clippers owner has reached out to the attorney of his 31-year-old former mistress, V. Stiviano, begging, “How can we make this go away?” according to a report.

Sterling is scrambling to salvage his reputation and hang on to his team after recordings surfaced over the weekend that revealed him launching a racist tirade about Stiviano publicly associating with African-American athletes.

He demanded she strip her Instagram account of photos of her posing with black athletes like Magic Johnson and Los Angeles Dodgers star Matt Kemp, and commanded her: “Don’t bring blacks to my games!”

At least a dozen corporate sponsors of the Clippers suspended their association with the team on Monday because of Sterling’s vile rant. The comments have sent shock waves through the NBA, and even Clippers coach Doc Rivers said Monday that he’s so angry he’s refusing to take Sterling’s calls.

“I’d just like to reiterate how disappointed I am . . . in the comments attributed to our owner, and I can’t tell you how upset I am, our players are,” Rivers told reporters in a conference call.

The real estate tycoon’s fate could come as early as Tuesday, when NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who is under intense pressure to punish Sterling, is scheduled to hold a press conference.

A source said Sterling was spotted getting into a limo on Park Ave. and E. 53rd St. in Midtown on Monday afternoon.

“I’m totally outraged that they are stalling on this,” the Rev. Al Sharpton told the Daily News Monday, referring to the fact the NBA hasn’t punished Sterling yet.

“If they say anything less than what they’re doing to get this bigot out, people should protest. People should not buy tickets,” said Sharpton, adding that his National Action Network’s Los Angeles office plans to hold a protest vigil in L.A. Tuesday night.

Several NBA team owners, including Michael Jordan, of the Charlotte Bobcats, and Jeanie Buss, of the Los Angeles Lakers, have called Sterling’s comments “disgusting” and “reprehensible.”

Knicks superfan Spike Lee said he hopes Silver boots Sterling from the league.

“I don’t know the bylaws of the league, but he has got to go,” Lee told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Monday night. “He’s tainting the league, he’s tainting America.”

“And when you hear something like that, that is the mentality of a slave master. He sees his players as slaves,” added Lee, who said he plans to attend Silver’s press conference.

It remains to be seen if Sterling will show up for the Clippers’ home playoff game against the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Sources with knowledge of Sterling’s predicament told TMZ.com he’s fearful Stiviano, who is of black and Mexican heritage, has more “extremely damaging” tape recordings.

The sources told the gossip website, which released nine minutes of devastating recordings on Saturday, that Stiviano has at least 100 hours of recordings in her possession.

Stiviano — a model who goes by several aliases, including Vanessa Maria Perez and Monica Gallegos — refused to comment Monday. Wearing a wild visor that covered her face and looked more like a welder’s mask, Stiviano ignored reporters outside her Los Angeles home as she got into a car and sped off.

But Sterling’s estranged wife, Rochelle, didn’t hold back. She publicly lambasted him.

“Our family is devastated by the racist comments made by my estranged husband,” Rochelle Sterling in a statement Monday.

“My children and I do not share these despicable views or prejudices,” she said. “We will not let one man’s small-mindedness poison the spirit of the fans and accomplishments of the team in the city we love.”

The statement contrasted sharply with the one she gave Sunday night defending him outside a downtown Los Angeles steakhouse. As a TMZ cameraman tried to ask Donald Sterling if he’s a racist, Rochelle Sterling butted in and screamed, “Of course not!”

Asked if the allegations of racism are true, the wife said, “Oh forget it, it’s not true.”

Rochelle Sterling filed a lawsuit against Stiviano in March, portraying her as a “gold-digger” and demanding she return a $1.8 million duplex her husband bought her.

 

Yeah, it's been out for 2 days that she has 100 more hours of their private conversations.
But now that Sterling has offered her money for them, she is eagerly in negotiations.

So this woman doesn't really care about racism, or exposing a known racist.

She's also in talks with two publishers to write a book, and now claims she was never his girlfriend, that it was a 'business arrangement', even though we hear her talk to him like a girlfriend. She's also insisting Sterling “INSTRUCTED HER” to record their conversations, “for posterity”.

Screw these two sleazeballs...He's done, and so is she.

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On a side-note; Doc Rivers, who hasn't slept from the stress and cxld yesterday's practice, said he won't return as coach if Sterling stays the owner.
Again, feeling so bad for the players and coach, this is just too sad.

 

Larry Johnson Wants An All-Black Basketball League

Segregated Leagues now? Because of one asshole? Just ridiculous and divisive.

 

Looking at that man and looking at that woman i say some women are very brave cus very very few young men would be with a rich wrinkled 81 year old woman no matter how much money she has

 

Yeah because black owned means segregated now. :smt017

 

yeah two sleaze balls fighting.

on the other hand.. her gold digging was strong....bentleys , million dollar home....i aint mad at ya girl
old girl was handling her gold digging shovel for 4 years

 

Did you forget the own league part? If blacks have their own league it is segregation

 

He's speaking of ownership.

 

Knicks executive and former player Larry Johnson had a decidedly different but still strong reaction to the racially insensitive remarks Clippers owner Donald Sterling is alleged to have made.

On Saturday night, Johnson tweeted: “Black people your Focusing on the wrong thing. We should be focusing on having our own, Own team own League! To For Self!!’’

The initial indication was Johnson was calling for an all-African-American league complete with black ownership. It wasn’t the first time Johnson, who is black, concerned himself with the fact the NBA’s ownership is mostly white while its players are mostly black.

Which part of the ones in BOLD don't you understand. What do you understand by all African American league? Does that sound like white, asian and people other than BLACK players playing in that league to you? Do you understand the word segregation?

 

Use some fucking critical thinking skills here.