Barkley6 wrote:bwgood77 wrote:Wow, the racism part is weird considering we are I think the only team with a Black GM and a Black coach. He also owns the WNBA (though some imply that owning teams comprised mostly of Black players is a form of racism and I guess they could argue the same for women...though that's going overboard).
It wouldn't surprise me though. He loved Nash. There was that Russillo piece that said that Sarver was enamored with Luka...went to see him and it was actually McD that wanted Ayton and (and he had always said they would take a big)...of course the story that everyone always jumps to is that Sarver wanted Ayton over Luka..it was all him (even though we all know McD didn't want Luka for sure...didn't even go see him).
But with Sarver, even those discussions with Raja and Amare people could take a certain way today and is treatment of people in the past in general as well. I have no idea about the women part. Never heard anything about that.
In a way it all would actually surprise me since I have never heard of this kind of stuff at all and have read so much about the Suns over the years and he hires James Jones, Monty, Terry Porter, Alvin Gentry, etc.
Two of his Senior VPs are female as well, including the Suns legal counsel, so that would also be strange.
And of course, there is, also the fact, that Jordan Schultz is about the worst source there is.
I wonder what the NBA would do if they owned the Suns like they owned the Hornets (now Pelicans).
Hopefully if a sale is forced, we get a very rich basketball savvy owner who is not terribly hands on (no pun intended).
It is possible to be racist toward a particular group and not another. Maybe Sarver isn't racist toward black people, but is toward Asian or Native people. I know people who are fully BLM, stop asian hate, etc. but make anti-Semitic comments.
Now, I'm not saying Sarver has any of these prejudices, just that whatever comments or whatever are being reported may not be directed at black people, but could still be racist.
That's true. It could be anything. He did do the Los Suns thing though and I doubt there are many anti semitic bankers, but there are plenty of groups it could be.
This is such a weird thing to come out right now and of course from all people, Schultz, and verified by none other than Gambo and Flex...
I wouldn't really think anything was true until espn came out with it except that Gambo said that he heard 50 people were interviewed. That's pretty hefty. And Jordan is taking a lot of risk if it isn't verified...then again that may be the reason no one else even dare....the risk...espn could pull a story they have ready at any minute because their legal team doesn't feel comfortable enough with it.
And if they are going to release it, they probably do not want to do so right before a national game against the Lakers. They will likely try to avoid the topic entirely.
