it's a good thing the NBA doesn't engage in interstate commerce

taco bell owners generally don't have a $1B slush fund to defend themselves. there also are suitable remedies that fall far short of being forcibly denied ownership.

Umm, we're lawyers. We're born haterz.

I'm not an anti-trust guy but am not sure any exemption would help the owners in an owners vs. Owner spat. In any event, they don't have that card in their deck.

We should start a Deadspin Law Review Kinja site.

Ok Rand Paul. Whatever you say.

"property" is a lot more than real estate, although a huge chunk of property law is based on land ownership. yes, he's subject to the "franchise" agreement...but a forced sale of his asset based on comments made in private, well there are a lot of arguments a good lawyer (he has one) can make. this has supreme court…

collusion might be a secondary argument, but the primary argument will be 800 or so years of property law. if he won't settle (or die), i bet he wins.

don't misunderestimate the constitution

there's a difference between being an employee and being a property owner. sterling owns the clips. the constitution and most of our common law are based on property law and designed to protect the rights of property owners (you know, old rich white guys). the nba's constitution is slightly less controlling here.

of course he wants to keep the team. it's almost always in the black.

Looks more like Paulie Walnuts. You don't want to see the Big Pussy cake.

I was fairly sure JSF was a smarmy dillhole about the time I got to the hyphen in his name.

that's a pretty sweet fax, banjoman

Lastname is a really strange last name. Is it Scotch-Romanian?

Lost in all of this: David Aldridge takes a heckuva glamour shot.

Now that's funny

You "beat" me to it

you must be gettin mad chicks, yo