Posted on 05/11/2014 11:24:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
LeBron James said Sunday that no one in the entire Sterling family should be allowed to own the Clippers, according to Brian Mahoney of the Associated Press, who spoke to James during the team’s shootaround in Brooklyn before the team readies for Game 4 vs. the Nets on Monday.
James said it’s the right thing to do, from the players’ perspective, to disallow any kind of transfer of ownership within the Sterling family:
”As players, we want what’s right and we don’t feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.”
The comments come less than a month after billionaire Clippers owner Donald Sterling was banned for life from attending games, and also fined $2.5 million, for racist comments he made to a friend during a taped private phone conversation this year. His wife, Shelly, said she has every intention of retaining majority ownership of the team, but Commissioner Adam Silver said he expects full support from the 29 other NBA owners who can force Sterling to sell the team he purchased for $12.5 million in 1981. Silver needs a three-fourths vote from the other owners to force the sale of the team.
James went on to say that he understands the sale is not going to happen overnight but just wants the league, and the Sterling family, to do the right thing:
”At the end of the day, this is going to be a long litigation when it comes to that. This guy who’s owned the team since the ’80s is not going to just give the team up in a day. So we understand it’s going to be long, but we want what’s right.”(continued)
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Same with Jay-Z and Michael Jordon who have both recently indicated they’re prejudice. You say Michael Jordan’s was a long time ago? Not as long ago as Paula Deans.
”As players, we want what’s right ....”
Again, I ask—if Sterling was such a KNOWN horrible racist, why did any of the black players play for him? Was that the right thing to do?
From high school till today, LeBron has been a POS punk.
LeBron is a genius, the smartest guy in the room.
Just ask Lebron, he will confirm the above.
I cannot wait for future Lebron pearls of wisdom, dispensed in the third person.
He went straight into the NBA from high school. Now, his lack of grammar does not reflect well on the Catholic high school he attended in Akron, Ohio.
Ah, the old 1031 / 1035 type exchanges normally reserved for annuities or homes, thanks for jogging the memory. I am curious what 10_ _ number this exchange is...
I can’t believe people actually pay money to watch sports anymore. Role models. . .NOT. Fans wearing sports paraphernalia look outlandish and to think they paid big bucks for it. I just don’t get it.
But then again, I get really confused when billionaire black athletes decide that in such cases, it is somehow immoral to pass on assets to one's children, who may or may not have such misgivings about black whores being seen in public with black guys at sporting events.
*sigh* The nuns never prepared us for this.
My alternative plan:
There are no jobs in basketball-football-soccer-baseball-hockey-ANY ‘professional’ sport for all those players/athletes who have sired kids with multiple women & who also have sired kids with women they have never married.
They follow an disgusting life style & are heroes to the younger generations.
Until they clean up their act—NO JOB in major sports. They can work at the local Safeway stocking shelves.
I still have no idea what the Old dude said.
I really don’t want to know what people say privately — it’s their space, not mine.
I’m suspicious of gratuitous praise benefiting any group. It’s not genuine and often serves some ulterior purpose.
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