N.B.A. Commissioner Hands Clippers Owner Lifetime Ban

[rgG]

decay wrote:
I felt this way about the recorded conversations between Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky. They were recorded without permission, so I don't understand how they were admissable in court.

Not that what Bill Clinton did wasn't wrong - it was. Same as this dingbat, but as it was said - it was a private conversation. If you can't say things in confidence, are any of us safe from this sort of invasion of privacy?

Ask the NSA

[rjmacs]

decay wrote:
I felt this way about the recorded conversations between Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky. They were recorded without permission, so I don't understand how they were admissable in court.

Not that what Bill Clinton did wasn't wrong - it was. Same as this dingbat, but as it was said - it was a private conversation. If you can't say things in confidence, are any of us safe from this sort of invasion of privacy?

I can safely say that i would NEVER say anything that would make me sound like the kind of racist d*uchebag that Sterling does in this recording.

Let him sue her for invasion of privacy, and let the jury decide. When someone make it clear that they have this quality of character, is it so surprising that they aren't treated with respect?

[jdc]

Guy is 80 and prob partys pretty hard.

"lifetime" might be 5-10 years...

[DP]

From the Los Angeles Times, in 2009:

In 2009, the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP honored Donald Sterling with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Soon after the announcement was made, much of the world learned of Sterling's unrepentant racism thanks to Elgin Baylor's employment discrimination lawsuit.

Clippers owner Donald Sterling, accused of racism and embracing a "vision of a Southern plantation-type structure" in a lawsuit filed in February by Elgin Baylor, will be given a lifetime achievement award next week by the NAACP. . . .

Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles branch of the civil rights organization, says of the much-maligned Sterling, "He has a unique history of giving to the children of L.A.," revealing that the owner donates anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 tickets a game to youth groups for nearly every Clippers home game.

Noting that the NAACP had made plans to honor Sterling before Baylor filed suit, Jenkins says, "We can't speak to the allegations, but what we do know is that for the most part [Sterling] has been very, very kind to the minority youth community."

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/06/.../sp-crowe6

What's interesting is why is this all coming to light just now... He has been a jerk for years yet no one seemed to take him to task until recently. I see the NAACP is going to return the money he's given them (although we don't know how much) but what about the other donations to orgs like the Black Business Association, 100 Black Men, the United Negro College Fund, etc., that he's made that have been accepted willingly. And then he gets rewarded for it!
This girl is obviously a con artist-I mean, jeez, four aliases? Maybe he asked her to record it to keep track but how did TMZ get it? A plan to blackmail him? She already has enough money from her other endeavors...
I think his (still) wife will get the team in a divorce settlement after all is said and done. She is a great supporter of the team.
Ah, money...OK, maybe some sex, too. But it's what this all boils down to. Just follow the money.

[what4]

Perhaps he is a rotten person who deserves punishment, but the recording was a lover's quarrel.

May we all be spared from having what we say in a lover's quarrel in our late 80s broadcast as proof of our character.

[Rick-o]

The dude is worth over 2 billion? People with that kind of dough can just buy their way out of trouble. This is all show and no go IMO. You watch, when this all blows over the disgusting rich bastard will be sitting pretty, none the worse for wear. He's probably chuckling about the whole damn incident as it's unfolding.

[SteveG]

Nothing like a cranky 80-year-old billionaire bigot to provide some fun on a rainy afternoon.

[mrbigstuff]

this guy truly crossed the line when he denied people housing based on their skin color, not when he made a remark in a private conversation.

sometimes fate is a b*tch, though.

[bfd]

Karmageddon strikes again. Maybe the NBA will send the team back to San Diego, where the Donald I - now deposed despot - stole them from originally. (for the aforementioned $10mil)…

[Chakravartin]

They're forcing him to divest...

Is there gonna be a raffle or is it a lottery? I want in. Where do I buy my ticket? People of all colors are welcome on my team and in the audience. Brown? No prob. Orange? Sure, give 'em a seat. Purple? Purple's cool. Polka dots? Front row.