well I think it’s rediculous - the punishment comes no where near fitting the ‘crime.’ If Sterling had told “V.” to not bring gangsters to his games, and to knock off sleeping around with the competition, nobody would be having any conversations about Sterling’s ownership. To reverse this back on the players, any player that gets in trouble with the law, or has children out of wedlock and doesn’t pay child support, or beats their wife, or cheats on their taxes, or gets a DUI, or promotes gangsterism and by proxy white hate, should have their entire family banned forever from playing sports of any kind. If the NBA and it’s players wants to play holier than thou then let’s play ball for real, desegregate the league so it is truely ‘fair’ and hold the mirror of exemplarism up to reflect on the players since the NBA seems to be demanding it. /rant
I think this has been years in the coming. Sterling is a joke and a buffoon and has been detested by the other NBA owners for years. I think they’ve been looking for a reason to get rid of him for years. And if the original rant may have been seen by many as a marginal reason for banning him, his cartoon on CNN has sealed his fate.