Posted on 04/29/2014 2:07:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The NBA Players Association threatened to boycott the league if swift, punitive action wasn't taken against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for racist comments he made against African-Americans, the players said today.
Roger Mason, the NBPA vice president, described a league-wide phone call that took place Monday night among players and league executives in which the players had threatened to walk if NBA Commissioner Adam Silver went easy on Sterling.
Earlier today, Silver announced the NBA had banned Sterling for life and asked the Board of Governors to force a sale of the team.
"We had a call with the commissioner, with the executive committee representatives [of the Board of Governors], and with players across the league, and the commissioner asked us what our views were," Mason said today. "We made it clear the players were ready to boycott."
Mason appeared with Kevin Johnson, president of the National Basketball Players Association, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Steve Nash and a host of other current and former players in Los Angeles following the NBA's announcement.
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And that would have hurt sterling how?
And lose $20,000 or more per game? I wonder how long that boycott would last.
The story ain’t over. I smell a lawsuit against the NBA, TMZ and some of the other actors in this recording of a private conversation.
BFD.
I don’t doubt that these shorts-wearing millionaire thugs WOULD have walked.
It would have cost them millions in forfeited games and would set the entire NBA back to the level of professional wrestling, but hey. Whatever.
If they would have cut off their noses to spite their face - they would have.
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
There was an opportunity for the players to take the moral high ground but they opted for drive-by threats.
Bull they are greedy, and who cares, if they never played another game I’d be thrilled.
What is the racial makeup of the NBA again?
Oh, that's right its about ability and not quotas.
Yawn. I’d get more excited about this if I hadn’t heard the statements that too many NBA players make about whites.
Can’t we all just get along?
Basketball died when Michael Jordan retired. Very few teams have any class at all, most are just illiterate thugs who have a really tough time with pronunciation while being interviewed.
I think you’re missing a zero or two in your estimate.
We’re in the Playoffs. Each game is worth millions to players, coaches, owners, networks and advertisers.
“... if they never played another game I’d be thrilled.”
Me too!
I guess that would have mattered to some folks.
she was not even that good looking ..... he should have just flown to Thailand every other several months to get his needs addressed once in awhile . Another classic case of SRP (stupid rich people )
If I were Sterling I would take on a scorched earth policy and do whatever I could to tear down the team, the NBA, the sponsors, and the players. Such rank hypocrisy.
So what and who cares?
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