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Posted on 04/26/2014 2:42:44 PM PDT by Beave Meister
The N.B.A. has started an investigation into remarks attributed to the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling after the release Friday night of an audio recording on TMZ.com in which a person TMZ identified as Sterling admonished a female friend to avoid being seen in public with black people.
Reaction around the league, whose players are predominantly African-American, was swift. The Clippers, who are in San Francisco for their first-round playoff series with the Golden State Warriors, held a team meeting late Friday, according to The Los Angeles Daily News. Magic Johnson, the former Lakers star and minority owner, said on Twitter that he would not attend a Clippers game as long as Sterling remained owner.
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He’ll be forced out I think. Not saying I buy into that solution but it sounds like that is what is coming down the pipe.
A little over a year ago, he lost his son.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2974269/posts
You are preaching to the choir. I am just telling you what happened to Marge and what is likely to happen to this guy.
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/03/03/loc_schott.controversy.html
I believe in the free market but just think, there is no affirmative action in the NBA and NFL.
NBA should have quotas, Hispanics, Asians, Whites, Blacks. Affirmative Action. (Okay, just kidding.)
As a fellow Lakers fan, my first reaction was “...people actually care enough about what Don thinks to get mad at him?”
Why I now only follow NASCAR and golf (sans Eldrick). Football & basketball mostly Negroes, and baseball mostly Latins & Negroes. All backed up by media leftists — think Costas. Too much rot, attitude, criminality, and corruption.
Baseball has lots of Latinos but American Blacks are now less than 10% of all players. There have been efforts to get African Americans to start playing baseball more.
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