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Sterling banned for life from the NBA (P. 40)

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Donald Sterling's punishment was...

Too harsh
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Just right
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Not harsh enough
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Post#741 » by ATLTimekeeper » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:52 pm

Inevitable wrote:Looks like TMZ beat Woj.


This is how we learn that Woj's NBA source is Donald Sterling.
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Post#742 » by RaptorJ » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:52 pm

How do you suspend an owner indefinitely? Is he not allowed to attend his own team's games?
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Re: Donald Sterling is a Racist how will Silver react. 

Post#743 » by FluLikeSymptoms » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:52 pm

OvertimeNO wrote:
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Well yeah, but there's a time and a place, right? An argument that's legit in one situation can mean a very different thing in another situation. And not just here, but elsewhere, I'm seeing a lot of comments to the effect of "The real lesson here is DONT TRUST HOS"

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Post#744 » by J-Roc » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:54 pm

It's so amazing how TMZ can get all the news.
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Post#745 » by Rhettmatic » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:55 pm

[tweet]https://twitter.com/CP24/status/461200708843212800[/tweet]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/Ewingsports/status/461201573020848128[/tweet]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/outsidethenba/status/461201691329568768[/tweet]
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Re: Donald Sterling is a Racist how will Silver react. 

Post#746 » by endo » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:57 pm

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Except I am much more the norm than you think.



In a multicultural city like Toronto, yes.


But not in Kiev, Seoul, Lagos, Atlanta, Delhi, Moscow, Durban, Adelaide, Dublin, Kobe, Lethbridge, Amman, Nairobi, ect....


I think you're wrong and trying to backtrack. You've only exposed how YOU feel.



WTF are you talking about? Exposed? Exposed what?


I'm just taking a more realistic view of the world ........ a world in which I've extensive experience having lived in 4 different countries and having traveling to over 40 of them.


Yes, more and more people are becoming accepting of different cultures as we transform more and more into a global world, but if you think that the old divisions of the past are solved then your severely clueless.

Now we are headed in the right direction, but the "norm" implies above a certain threshold and we are still very far from that.



So you didn't expose me on anything. It's called Realpolitik.
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Post#747 » by Raps Maniac » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:57 pm

[tweet]https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/status/461201462622949377[/tweet]
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Re: Donald Sterling is a Racist how will Silver react. 

Post#748 » by OvertimeNO » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:58 pm

FluLikeSymptoms wrote:
OvertimeNO wrote:
FluLikeSymptoms wrote:I tattoo lessons from RealGMers on my neck. Don't you'?


across the knuckles so I can remember them when I lift

Maybe we should do both so that they match up when we do "The Thinker" pose.


Fittingly, the pose Sterling adopts every time someone tells him he's said something bigoted.
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Post#749 » by OakleyDokely » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:58 pm

Adam Silver won't show any balls at all and Sterling will continue to own the team until he decides to sell. The NBA will just hope this all blows over.
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Re: Donald Sterling is a Racist how will Silver react. PC @ 

Post#750 » by FluLikeSymptoms » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:58 pm

J-Roc wrote:It's so amazing how TMZ can get all the news.

I watched yesterday(where else can one find news) and the main guy said they had the tape for 8 days before posting it. Also, I guess she swore that they had a non-sexual relationship and that she only worked for him.

Why hold it for 8 days? Shopping it?
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Re: Sterling racism thread (PC@2pm; Raps to show solidarity) 

Post#751 » by Yorkex » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:01 pm

Which Clipper can we get this summer ?
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Re: Sterling racism thread (PC@2pm; Raps to show solidarity) 

Post#752 » by Inevitable » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:01 pm

Sportsnet showing the press conference right now
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Post#753 » by ishoy123 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:02 pm

Raps Maniac wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/status/461201462622949377[/tweet]


That's actually a lot for a private comment. I'm not trying to defend what he said at all, but a lot of us have probably said things in private that are just as bad.
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Post#754 » by hell_razor » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:02 pm

ishoy123 wrote:
Raps Maniac wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/status/461201462622949377[/tweet]


That's actually a lot for a private comment. I'm not trying to defend what he said at all, but a lot of us have probably said things in private that are just as bad.


people are against freedom of speech nowadays
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Re: Sterling racism thread (PC@2pm; Raps to show solidarity) 

Post#755 » by Raps Maniac » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:03 pm

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Re: Sterling racism thread (PC@2pm; Raps to show solidarity) 

Post#756 » by Hero » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:03 pm

It's gonna be ugly if his punishment isn't severe enough. Brace yourselves.
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Re: Sterling racism thread (PC@2pm; Raps to show solidarity) 

Post#757 » by hell_razor » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:05 pm

Hero wrote:It's gonna be ugly if his punishment isn't severe enough. Brace yourselves.


the punishment is appropriate

are we living in china or america?
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Re: Donald Sterling is a Racist how will Silver react. PC @ 

Post#758 » by Fairview4Life » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:05 pm

hell_razor wrote:
ishoy123 wrote:
Raps Maniac wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/status/461201462622949377[/tweet]


That's actually a lot for a private comment. I'm not trying to defend what he said at all, but a lot of us have probably said things in private that are just as bad.


people are against freedom of speech nowadays


Some of them don't know what freedom of speech actually is.
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Re: Sterling racism thread (PC@2pm; Raps to show solidarity) 

Post#759 » by Fairview4Life » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:06 pm

hell_razor wrote:
Hero wrote:It's gonna be ugly if his punishment isn't severe enough. Brace yourselves.


most appropriate punishment

are we living in china or america?


Well, most of us are living in Canada.
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Re: Sterling racism thread (PC@2pm; Raps to show solidarity) 

Post#760 » by gamer1035 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:06 pm

$100 is probably alot to the average american (I'm assuming the average american would be really poor)

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