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 Post subject: Re: Adam Silver
PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:44 am 
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Doubtful. The authenticity is not even confirmed, and maybe even that is unlikely. Sponsors have pulled out, which is probably a big thing, but still I don't know what solid/legal basis the league has to make such a drastic move.


They can't. All they can do is wish. He has a right to believe and say whatever he wants. He wasn't convicted of a crime and he isn't having any financial problems. They cannot take his team away and won't be dumb enough to try.

The NBA can force him out of the league completely, but it's complicated (it was on the radio this am):

-Another owner would have to file a written complaint with the league, to which Sterling has the right to respond in writing
-Then a vote would be taken by the owners, and something like 75% of the owners would have to vote to oust him.

I believe it's complicated because Sterling's wife owns 1/2 the team?





-Side note: WTF is up with their marriage situation? Still married, but he takes his much younger mistress out in public to the games - of the team he owns with his wife, sometimes while she's sitting there too?

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 Post subject: Re: Adam Silver
PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:53 am 
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Adam Silver will either come out looking like Sterling Silver if he removes Donald Sterling or his silver plating will come off if he doesn't.


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 Post subject: Re: Adam Silver
PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:59 am 
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Nas wrote:
veganfan21 wrote:
Doubtful. The authenticity is not even confirmed, and maybe even that is unlikely. Sponsors have pulled out, which is probably a big thing, but still I don't know what solid/legal basis the league has to make such a drastic move.


They can't. All they can do is wish. He has a right to believe and say whatever he wants. He wasn't convicted of a crime and he isn't having any financial problems. They cannot take his team away and won't be dumb enough to try.

The NBA can force him out of the league completely, but it's complicated (it was on the radio this am):

-Another owner would have to file a written complaint with the league, to which Sterling has the right to respond in writing
-Then a vote would be taken by the owners, and something like 75% of the owners would have to vote to oust him.

I believe it's complicated because Sterling's wife owns 1/2 the team?





-Side note: WTF is up with their marriage situation? Still married, but he takes his much younger mistress out in public to the games - of the team he owns with his wife, sometimes while she's sitting there too?


I think they have been separated for years.

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 Post subject: Re: Adam Silver
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 Post subject: Re: Adam Silver
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spanky wrote:
Nas wrote:
veganfan21 wrote:
Doubtful. The authenticity is not even confirmed, and maybe even that is unlikely. Sponsors have pulled out, which is probably a big thing, but still I don't know what solid/legal basis the league has to make such a drastic move.


They can't. All they can do is wish. He has a right to believe and say whatever he wants. He wasn't convicted of a crime and he isn't having any financial problems. They cannot take his team away and won't be dumb enough to try.

The NBA can force him out of the league completely, but it's complicated (it was on the radio this am):

-Another owner would have to file a written complaint with the league, to which Sterling has the right to respond in writing
-Then a vote would be taken by the owners, and something like 75% of the owners would have to vote to oust him.

I believe it's complicated because Sterling's wife owns 1/2 the team?




I don't believe that's true.

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The NBA’s constitution, which is confidential, reportedly contains language permitting owners to authorize the league to sell a team without an owner’s consent. The language, SI.com is told, only covers very limited circumstances and these circumstances concern league finances — namely, when an owner can’t pay his bills. There is reportedly no language authorizing the NBA to sell a team because of an owner’s hurtful remarks or embarrassing behavior. Even if conditional language could be construed to authorize a forced sale of the Clippers, NBA owners would likely be reluctant to do so given the precedent it would set.


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 Post subject: Re: Adam Silver
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Adam Silver will either come out looking like Sterling Silver if he removes Donald Sterling or his silver plating will come off if he doesn't.
You can call into all of the shows again tomorrow and tell them that 'Adam Silver is not tarnished!'

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 Post subject: Re: Adam Silver
PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:37 pm 
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spanky wrote:
Nas wrote:
veganfan21 wrote:
Doubtful. The authenticity is not even confirmed, and maybe even that is unlikely. Sponsors have pulled out, which is probably a big thing, but still I don't know what solid/legal basis the league has to make such a drastic move.


They can't. All they can do is wish. He has a right to believe and say whatever he wants. He wasn't convicted of a crime and he isn't having any financial problems. They cannot take his team away and won't be dumb enough to try.

The NBA can force him out of the league completely, but it's complicated (it was on the radio this am):

-Another owner would have to file a written complaint with the league, to which Sterling has the right to respond in writing
-Then a vote would be taken by the owners, and something like 75% of the owners would have to vote to oust him.

I believe it's complicated because Sterling's wife owns 1/2 the team?




I don't believe that's true.

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The NBA’s constitution, which is confidential, reportedly contains language permitting owners to authorize the league to sell a team without an owner’s consent. The language, SI.com is told, only covers very limited circumstances and these circumstances concern league finances — namely, when an owner can’t pay his bills. There is reportedly no language authorizing the NBA to sell a team because of an owner’s hurtful remarks or embarrassing behavior. Even if conditional language could be construed to authorize a forced sale of the Clippers, NBA owners would likely be reluctant to do so given the precedent it would set.

I believe it is.

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 Post subject: Re: Adam Silver
PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:40 pm 
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Bucky Chris wrote:
spanky wrote:
Nas wrote:
veganfan21 wrote:
Doubtful. The authenticity is not even confirmed, and maybe even that is unlikely. Sponsors have pulled out, which is probably a big thing, but still I don't know what solid/legal basis the league has to make such a drastic move.


They can't. All they can do is wish. He has a right to believe and say whatever he wants. He wasn't convicted of a crime and he isn't having any financial problems. They cannot take his team away and won't be dumb enough to try.

The NBA can force him out of the league completely, but it's complicated (it was on the radio this am):

-Another owner would have to file a written complaint with the league, to which Sterling has the right to respond in writing
-Then a vote would be taken by the owners, and something like 75% of the owners would have to vote to oust him.

I believe it's complicated because Sterling's wife owns 1/2 the team?




I don't believe that's true.

Quote:
The NBA’s constitution, which is confidential, reportedly contains language permitting owners to authorize the league to sell a team without an owner’s consent. The language, SI.com is told, only covers very limited circumstances and these circumstances concern league finances — namely, when an owner can’t pay his bills. There is reportedly no language authorizing the NBA to sell a team because of an owner’s hurtful remarks or embarrassing behavior. Even if conditional language could be construed to authorize a forced sale of the Clippers, NBA owners would likely be reluctant to do so given the precedent it would set.


Wouldn't be a forced sale, it would be termination of the franchise.


With reports surfacing that the NBA has no actual power to remove Donald Sterling from his post as Los Angeles Clippers owner in the wake of racist comments attributed to him by TMZ Sports, Lester Munson of ESPN.com says the “constitution” which “governs the 30 owners of NBA teams and establishes the authority of the owners’ commissioner” proves otherwise.

“Under the terms of Paragraph 13 of the constitution, the owners can terminate another owner’s franchise with a vote of three-fourths of the NBA Board of Governors, which is composed of all 30 owners. The power to terminate is limited to things like gambling and fraud in the application for ownership, but it also includes a provision for termination when an owner “fails to fulfill” a “contractual obligation” in “such a way as to affect the [NBA] or its members adversely,” writes Munson in an article posted on Monday afternoon.

“Silver and the owners could assert that Sterling’s statements violated the constitution’s requirements to conduct business on a “reasonable” and “ethical” level.”

Munson went on to assert that “any owner or Silver can initiate the termination procedure with a written charge describing the violation,” and Donald Sterling would have five days to respond to the charges via writing.

Munson admits that to “terminate” the Los Angeles Clippers may be a last resort, but it could give the NBA a solid amount of leverage if they decide they want to oust the embattled owner in the wake of their investigation.


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 Post subject: Re: Adam Silver
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 Post subject: Re: Adam Silver
PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 7:27 pm 
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Doubtful. The authenticity is not even confirmed, and maybe even that is unlikely. Sponsors have pulled out, which is probably a big thing, but still I don't know what solid/legal basis the league has to make such a drastic move.


http://www.cbssports.com/nba/writer/ken ... ling-issue

This guy tries to lay out legalities the best he can. It appears to me $1M max fine and some sort of suspension.


We all know that won't even amount to a slap on the wrist. Can't really imagine any significant punitive measure other than him being kicked off the team unofficially, persona non grata, and then the Clippers winning it all.


Right on. I'll bet every word of Silver's presser was negotiated with Sterling himself, Sterling being no idiot and knowing he was busted. Silver's hammer is akin to Quinn and Madigan proposing a pension reform they know to be unconstitutional.

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