Well, The LA Clippers are Screwed Thanks to Owner

[notorious]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ba...064539618.html



Report: Clippers owner Donald Sterling caught on tape telling his girlfriend to not bring African-Americans to 'my games'


By Kelly Dwyer


TMZ revealed a recording early Saturday morning of what it says is Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling pathetically admonishing his girlfriend for “associating” with African-Americans – apparently she made the major mistake, in Sterling’s eyes, of posing for a photo with Basketball Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, a photo she later uploaded to her Instagram account.

It's a shocking and infuriating 9½-minute bit of tape that should embarrass the NBA and force new commissioner Adam Silver into action.

According to TMZ's recording, Sterling went on to chide his girlfriend, who is half-African-American and half-Mexican, for bringing African-Americans to Clipper games, even if those guests in question were of exalted status as Magic is, and even if she’s never done as much.

The recording is an absolutely depressing listen, to say the least. Here are some of the snippets, according to TMZ, from Sterling, who told his girlfriend V. Stiviano that he feels “very strongly” about her “broadcasting” the fact she briefly spoke and posed with a very famous black man:

-- "It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?" (3:30)


-- "You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that ... and not to bring them to my games." (5:15)


-- "...Don't put him [Magic] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don't bring him to my games." (9:13)

Donald Sterling is the NBA’s great shame, and now a major media outlet apparently has him on record as telling a woman – one that he obscenely disrespects throughout the entire exchange – that he doesn’t want African-Americans coming to his basketball games. Whether Sterling is sadly mixing up his words or only referring to Magic Johnson personally, or jealous of the brief attention his much younger girlfriend (Sterling is still married to another woman, mind you) received isn’t the point – the point is that the NBA has to do something about its biggest problem.

This is indefensible. Sterling’s treatment of this woman is execrable enough, but the clear intent of his message and what’s simmering just underneath what he actually lets out should be enough to force what has previously been a spineless league (regarding the Clippers' owner) into action. The Clippers could boast a lily-white roster and coaching staff, that part barely matters in relation to Donald Sterling – owner of an NBA team – being taped telling someone he doesn’t want African-Americans at his basketball games.

Fight with his girl, heat of the moment, jealous as hell – it does not matter.

This is Silver’s first great task. He’ll have to balance the interests of a small team-owning few versus the respect of hundreds of millions. This, like Donald Sterling, is a no-brainer.




Donald Sterling and V. Stiviano during a playoff game earlier in April. (Getty Images)

[Bowser]

This would be like if Prison Bitch opened up a gay bar then turned around and bitched about all the homosexuals that frequented his place.

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by Bowser

This would be like if Prison Bitch opened up a gay bar then turned around and bitched about all the homosexuals that frequented his place.

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I could only make it through about four minutes of that tape. It's sad that she has such low self esteem that she'd willingly associate with that mother****er after what he said.

Someone needs to drive a 12d nail through his dick.

You'd think she could find some other rich douche

[Mi_chief_fan]

Originally Posted by Bowser

This would be like if Prison Bitch opened up a gay bar then turned around and bitched about all the homosexuals that frequented his place.

Yeah, sounds like Willem Dafoe in Boondock Saints.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by Mi_chief_fan

He's had some memorable quotes:
http://deadspin.com/your-complete-qu...ium=socialites

wanna know why you think you can coach these ****ers.
(To potential coach Rollie Massimino, 1983)

That's because of all the blacks in this building, they smell, they're not clean.
(To a property supervisor, 2002, sworn testimony.)

And it's because of all of the Mexicans that just sit around and smoke and drink all day.
(Ibid.)

I don't like Mexican men because they smoke, drink and just hang around the house.
(Ibid.)

Is she one of those black people that stink? [...] Just evict the bitch.
(Ibid.)

I'm offering a lot of money for a poor black kid.
(On negotiations to sign Danny Manning, 1988, allegedly in David Stern's presence.)

I don't have to spend any more money on them, they will take whatever conditions I give them and still pay the rent.
(On Koreans, sworn testimony.)

According to former general manger Elgin Baylor, Sterling envisioned a "Southern Plantation type structure" for the Clippers, one in which, as he allegedly put it to Baylor, "poor black boys from the South" played for a white head coach.

There you go. And these are just the horrible things he's said. He's always been this way. He's done a lot of horrible things to people. There was that case a few years back where one of the Clippers employees had a serious health problem... I think cancer, but something very serious, and he refused to pay for treatment. So some of the Clippers players threw money together and paid for the person's health costs.

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by Mi_chief_fan

He's had some memorable quotes:
http://deadspin.com/your-complete-qu...ium=socialites

wanna know why you think you can coach these ****ers.
(To potential coach Rollie Massimino, 1983)

That's because of all the blacks in this building, they smell, they're not clean.
(To a property supervisor, 2002, sworn testimony.)

And it's because of all of the Mexicans that just sit around and smoke and drink all day.
(Ibid.)

I don't like Mexican men because they smoke, drink and just hang around the house.
(Ibid.)

Is she one of those black people that stink? [...] Just evict the bitch.
(Ibid.)

I'm offering a lot of money for a poor black kid.
(On negotiations to sign Danny Manning, 1988, allegedly in David Stern's presence.)

I don't have to spend any more money on them, they will take whatever conditions I give them and still pay the rent.
(On Koreans, sworn testimony.)

According to former general manger Elgin Baylor, Sterling envisioned a "Southern Plantation type structure" for the Clippers, one in which, as he allegedly put it to Baylor, "poor black boys from the South" played for a white head coach.

[tk13]

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2011/3/1...s-coach-cancer

There it is. An assistant coach had prostate cancer and the team refused to cover treatment costs because then "they'd have to do it for everyone." A bunch of a players got together and put up $70,000 to cover the surgery.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by tk13

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2011/3/1...s-coach-cancer

There it is. An assistant coach had prostate cancer and the team refused to cover treatment costs because then "they'd have to do it for everyone." A bunch of a players got together and put up $70,000 to cover the surgery.

Holy shit

[BigMeatballDave]

The other owners need to force him out.

[BigMeatballDave]

Didn't MLB ban Schott for her anti-Semitic remarks?

[underEJ]

I remember the Danny Manning in LA when I first lived here 90-92. So fun to have my favorite Jayhawk in town, even with the injury. But, I could never have been a Clippers fan in general because of that fool of an owner. I would hope the current Clippers players have some pull to finally get the NBA to do something about him, but I don't have that much faith. They have always just let him get away with it.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Pretty sure he posts regularly in DC.

[jAZ]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

this guy is completely insane.

I disagree.

Cliven Bundy is the rural, unpolished face of racism. Donald Sterling is the modern, properly groomed face of it.

I was talking to my dad (70) about this the other day. He agrees that Cliven Bundy is racist and I think he feels that he's mostly crazy because he's so public about his racism. Sterling is racist too. But perhaps less crazy because he's not willing to be public about it.

But that's the nature of racism today. We are all more media savvy about how we speak about race, almost regardless of our views. As a result, racism looks much different today than when Bundy, Sterling and my dad were growing up.

So they don't see race and racism in the same way that a younger generation might. To an older generation, racism is separate drinking fountains, seats on the bus or even slavery.

Racism in modern 2014 looks a lot more like Donald Sterling, who seems to be dating a woman who is herself a mix of two minority races. And a lot less like the Clive Bundy who puts his paranoid fears on national TV for everyone to witness.

[jAZ]

Originally Posted by Mi_chief_fan

He's had some memorable quotes:
http://deadspin.com/your-complete-qu...ium=socialites

wanna know why you think you can coach these ****ers.
(To potential coach Rollie Massimino, 1983)

That's because of all the blacks in this building, they smell, they're not clean.
(To a property supervisor, 2002, sworn testimony.)

And it's because of all of the Mexicans that just sit around and smoke and drink all day.
(Ibid.)

I don't like Mexican men because they smoke, drink and just hang around the house.
(Ibid.)

Is she one of those black people that stink? [...] Just evict the bitch.
(Ibid.)

I'm offering a lot of money for a poor black kid.
(On negotiations to sign Danny Manning, 1988, allegedly in David Stern's presence.)

I don't have to spend any more money on them, they will take whatever conditions I give them and still pay the rent.
(On Koreans, sworn testimony.)

According to former general manger Elgin Baylor, Sterling envisioned a "Southern Plantation type structure" for the Clippers, one in which, as he allegedly put it to Baylor, "poor black boys from the South" played for a white head coach.

I wonder if this is (finally) his Marge Schott moment.

http://articles.philly.com/1998-10-2...tt-ken-hofmann

Report: Schott Being Forced Out As Reds Owner

Daily News Wire Services
POSTED: October 22, 1998
Marge Schott will soon sell her controlling share of the Cincinnati Reds under pressure from baseball's top officials, the Cincinnati Post reported yesterday.

Schott's two-year suspension from daily operation of the team, as punishment for remarks about Asians and working women, expired with the end of the World Series.

According to recent reports, baseball officials have been leaning toward extending her suspension so Reds managing executive John Allen can continue running the team.

Now, baseball officials are expected to announce Schott has signed a letter of intent to sell her interest in the Reds by the end of the year, the Post reported, citing unidentified sources.

[ThaVirus]

That makes some sense jAZ.

It's almost like he's in denial as well.

One second there's no problem with her hanging out with, loving, and even ****ing black guys behind closed doors, then it's not ok to do it publicly, but when she asks what's wrong with it he says there's nothing wrong..

Really flip floppy.