Posted on 05/04/2014 7:23:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's Jew Vs. Jew as Battle Over Team Heats Up.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Sunday he expects Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to put up a “long, protracted fight” to retain ownership of the team after being banned for life from the National Basketball Association because of racial comments.
Garcetti, appearing on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” program, was asked about a potential boycott of Clippers games if Sterling balks and said, “I would certainly keep that arrow in my quiver.”
Last week NBA Commissioner Adam Silver fined Sterling $2.5 million and imposed a lifetime ban after the revelation of taped conversations in which he told his friend, V. Stiviano, that he did not want her to bring black people to Clippers games or pose for pictures with them.
The NBA Board of Governors is expected to meet within the next two weeks to vote on forcing a sale of the team.
Sterling, who built a fortune estimated at $1.9 billion through Los Angeles-area real estate holdings, bought the Clippers for $12 million in 1981 and the franchise now is valued at $430 million by Forbes magazine....
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Good point!
If you own a FRANCHISE rather that a pure private business then indeed you meet the standards set by the people in charge of licensing franchises. It’s very American, we’re the country that perfected the franchise system.
“If you had a business partner who went crazy and started ranting about how sharia law should be imposed on the U.S., you might not try top force him out of the partnership?”
There might have been a clause in the partnership where “forcing” wouldn’t be necessary. I’d say that endangering/sabotaging the very survival of the business would probably be one of those clauses.
Buttin’ in — I wouldn’t be in business with a muzzie business partner in the first place, but in your hypothetical scenario (perhaps an ad hoc conversion to Islam), my partner would die young of natural causes.
Problem is if the marketplace decided against Sterling that would take money out of ALL the franchises hands. An NBA team is like a McDonald’s, you can’t just let one sink without it damaging the whole.
(A) Mr. Sterling was taped without his knowledge, which is, I believe, a felony in California (B) it was almost certainly done at the behest of Magic Johnson, who has been rebuffed in the past by Mr. Sterling in his attempts to buy the team so he almost certainly hatched a plot with the mistress to catch Sterling in a racist rant. Tell me, would you feel fine if EVERYTHING you’ve said in private in the past was broadcast to the world?
“If you own a FRANCHISE ...”
Well, put, but a legal/technical point; you are describing a “franchisee”. They “own” nothing but whatever was agreed to, (for example, an exclusive license to operate in a particular area) and they definitely don’t own the franchise. The “franchisor” does.
Ah, but we don’t know what the franchise rules are in this situation, do we?
What color is the sky in your world?
“Ah, but we don’t know what the franchise rules are in this situation, do we?”
These are probably published in the case of a major league team. For example, it is known that the MLB has the “in the best interests of Major League Baseball” clause, which is incredibly broad. The Commissioner of Baseball has a great deal of power.
I really don’t think he should sell it, I think he should find some way to make those players and the league pay.
“It’s Impossible to Bring the NBA into Disrepute”
OK, I concede this point.
I never said he was Muslim. That was just an example. The point is a lot of businesses have agreements in place if a partner/co-owner/franchisee does/says something crazy/illegal/etc. That’s a part of business. Whether it’s always the right decision is another question, but I think it’s crazy so many conservatives are becoming hard line anti-business.
I think technically they own a business and a license to tie it to the franchise system. He clearly owns the team, with all the responsibilities and access to revenue that implies, and he gets to make that team a part of the NBA. Franchise life is complicated, with a lot of revocable parts.
I thinks it's a safe bet that the NBA just lost about 90% of it's white paying customers.
Hope the "League" accepts EBT cards.
Do you have proof of A or B? I think A is a reasonable assumption, but it still needs to be proven, but so far B is pure conjecture. This is a leftist technique. I’m sure Sterling has decent lawyers to defend his rights.
The ratings since this all started say they lost nobody, they’ve even gotten a bit of a bump.
I oppose rent-seeking, anti-competitive businesses like those filling up the Chamber of Commerce. Conservatives favor free markets and competition, this does not mean we support businesses who do not favor free markets and private property rights.
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