Nor does it say anywhere that assholes have a right to my business. This isn't court, we're not judges, it's a man expressing his opinions and the rest of us expressing ours in kind, and yet someone always complains about how our free speech negates the idiot's. It does not.

I guess the usually chatty Mark Cuban is moonwalking away from the Sterling controversy and letting the commissioner deal with Sterling.

I refused to watch the Clippers try to play above the issue. I heard that Van Gundy let them have it though. I agree with him.

Whats amazing is the realization that this guy is a bad human being, if anyone has ever even watched this guy passively for the last 30 years it was easy to spot that one should never buy one damn thing from him, for years he treated the fans of Los Angeles as human ATM machines, screwed over other real estate people…

Totally agree. You can't tell me that the owners, including "cool" owner Mark Cuban, weren't aware of Donald Sterling and were, obviously, alright with him owning the Clippers.

Exactly. This guy's been around the league three decades. The owners and comish all know each other. They talk.

This analogy would work better if George Costanza had also been an ignorant racist and not merely someone who declined to disabuse his employer of the notion that he was handicapped.

This is not new, much like this site points out. The bottom line is the only reason we ever heard this tape is because Sterling's MINORITY ex girlfriend is in deep shit for stealing millions from him, so she is deflecting by releasing this tape. Where is the anger at her for hiding this "horrible" evidence for so…

He's worth $2 billion, he can afford the best medical care. And ask any estate lawyer, it is amazing what a dick you can be from beyond the grave.

Yes, a rich white dude goes on a racist rant so the logical thing to do is point the finger at the black guy.

They can't force him to sell the team... Period. Even if the wording in the NBA owners agreements allowed it, it would likely not hold up in court. You just cannot force a business owner to sell his business because he is an awful person. If they thought they could make him sell, the NBA would have to be prepared to…

Yeah unless the fans or players boycott the games nothing is going to happen. I see something like a $5 million dollar fine and year long suspension but, until the NBA loses money nothing will happen. Also, I like how everyone's like the Clippers players need to boycott the games. I'd say that's not exactly fair for…

"no free agent will ever want to play for him again" - he's made openly racist comments in the past, including the very recent past. Didn't stop free agents from going there. Sterling is not a hands-on owner like Cuban. The players rarely, if ever, have to interact with him. The top two criteria for free agents will…

Stern works for the owners. They are the ones who've allowed this to fester for 30 years. The owners' main concern is increasing the value of their individual franchises. Sterling - as abhorrent as he is personally - has done a very good job increasing the valuation of his franchise (see above), which ends up as a…

So much for Stern retiring in peace. Years of caring about nothing but how many games he could get on TV Christmas Day will and should bite him. While at the forefront, the Sterling issue is only one chapter in an overrated and highly dubious career.

Adam Silver works for the owners, one of his bosses is Sterling. There's no way in hell he's ousted, he has no reason to sell.

Not just Stern. It's just incredible that it took TMZ, of all things, to draw attention to how much of an asshole Sterling really is. A lot of people, including David Stern, seemed to take no notice of the lawsuits and other shady/outright immoral business that Sterling has been up to for years. OHHH, but he makes…

They won't force him out of the league. They don't want that precedent. Too many of the other owners privately agree with him.

Why would the rest of the owners get on board with something that could set the precedent for their own removal from the league in the future? Whether or not the league has the power to remove him is not the issue. You have a brand-new commissioner who has huge aspirations for the league. He is not going to define…

So I'm reading through this guy's past and wondering, how the hell was this allowed to continue? Is it one of those things everyone knew about but no one wanted to talk about, and why? I feel like I have a ton of questions, but will sound real dumb so I'm just going to wait and see if someone else asks first.