[d2bets]

Originally posted on 04/29/2014:

We've all been in a relationship with a black widow of a female... correct? A bitch that twists your emotions... makes you do things you typically would never do... makes you say things you'd typically would never say. That's exactly what happened to Donald Sterling.

So this bitch records him... and provokes him. Everything recorded in private... but it becomes public material?

You happen to be an owner of a team in which has multi races... and ethnic backgrounds... and with "said material" it now becomes PUBLIC and the commissioner forces you to sell your team.

Ladies and gentlemen... the commissioner can't force you to do this for numerous valid reasons.

Not only did Adam Silver take this ban personally... it seems like he's trying to make a name for himself.


What really is the big deal about this? Because Donald Sterling verbally said something about a black person? That he made a gesture that "he owns you". Um.... where did he lie? In that statement... that was a racist remark? Are we all that damn sensitive now?

Hey Chris Paul... I hate to tell you man... but I do pay you millions of dollars. You did sign the contract... I technically own you. You don't like it? Then leave. Wait... that's being a racist? No, it's not being a racist. You work for him... in a way he does own you.

The sensitivity in our society is remarkable. You're a pro athlete... you make millions of dollars... but when someone makes private comments... that were provoked... we all have to form unions and take stands etc to backlash these said comments. Unreal.

Hey posters at SBR... do you work for someone that is a different race? Do you like what they do to you 24/7? No... I'm sure most of us don't like our bosses. But in a way... you are owned. That's why you work. You work for the money to provide for yourself and your family. Let me guess... you don't like the way I'm wording this? But am I wrong? We're all owned in one way or another. I'm sure you've been in many situations in which you despised your boss. Why do you work for him for? You don't have to. Find another job.

My point is very simple... the NBA commissioner made the hugest mistake ever. Donald Sterling can sue for many reasons because of these private comments that were made public. Donald Sterling isn't a dirty man. We've all said things that we never wanted the public to hear. That's why freedom of speech protects us. You mean to tell me that an owner never wanted a GAY to play for his team? I bet anyone a million dollars that someone has said this before... an owner... but it just never made it to the public ears. An owner... is an owner. They have leverage... it's a part of life. You don't like it... don't work for me. Don't show up for work.

It's remarkable how ignorant, sensitive, and unionized our society becomes when "race" is an issue. It's really not about race. It's about personality. It just so happens that the girl Sterling was banging... was probably banging blacks and other races... ok... big deal... so he ran his mouth. We've all said things on an emotional high. That's why freedom of speech protects us. Did Donald Sterling say... Hey.. I'm going to kill that ni##$r? No he didn't. Did he ever say... he was going to harm anyone physically? No he didn't. Donald Sterling's legal team will hammer the NBA. They will hammer his ex-girlfriend.

I'm sick of everyone using the race card. It's not a "race" situation. If you're black you're black. If you're white... you're white. It is what it is. Donald Sterling was pissed off at his bitch of a girlfriend. We've all said things like that. Everyone needs to stop being so damn sensitive. If you're a pro athlete... and you make 20+ million a year stop being a damn baby because you're black and you believe Donald Sterling hurt your feelings. Why the hell did you sign the contract for if you knew he was like that... because of the rumors you heard? You did it because of the money! You aren't stupid. Making millions of dollars and crying because of a racist remark. Grow the fuk up all of you pro athletes. Stop wetting the bed.

All of you people who work for a boss you don't like. Don't pull the race card. Quit. Yes, you are owned. We are all owned. You don't like it... then become an owner. Become a boss. Don't be an f'ing cry baby.

Can't wait until Sterling counters all of this... and shoves it right up the NBA's a$$.

You're 100% wrong.

Set aside the moral or race issues and that sort of thing.

You're wrong from a league-wide, financial and leverage perspective. Sterling has no leverage and Silver/NBA has it all. Could Sterling sue and drag it through the courts? Maybe. But he loses even by winning through that route. Silver knows it. The NBA knows it. And Sterling either knows it or will know it.

Sterling can't win by fighting the inevitable here, like it or not. He just can't.

And whether you like it or not, Silver had to do this if for no other reason than to keep the peace and keep the league together. Again, maybe you hate it, but it's reality. He may have done what he did because he truly believes it. But even if he didn't, he did what he had to do from a league perspective.

AND, he knows he has the upper hand. Sterling can't stay owner. All the sponsors have withdrawn and nobody will play for him after this season. Even if the owners went the other way, which they won't, Sterling will still have nothing. And everyone knows it at this point.

What WILL happen, eventually, is financial concessions will be made to Sterling to get to a settlement. He will cash out and get his fair value (maybe even more than he otherwise would have). And it will all happen before next season. Sterling might even contest or file suit in the immediate future, but it will only be to gain financial leverage in a settlement.

The script is already written, like it or not, and Silver had no option to deviate from that script, unless he wanted to do irreparable damage to the NBA.