He owns the team. It may be a franchise operation, but Sterling owns it. Just like the analogy I made about owning a Mcdonald’s franchise operation. You own the restaurant. And McDonald’s cannot take it away from you, certainly not for doing things Sterling was caught doing. Bad behavior isn’t always illegal behavior. Kobe Bryant and Magic Johnson and countless others in the NBA have been caught in bad behavior and they weren’t kicked out of the NBA. This whole issue it seems to me is about political correctness.
As I already told you, McDonalds CAN take it away from you. They do on a fairly regular basis, usually without even paying you. That’s life under the franchise system, you license, you never really own.
RE: Just like the analogy I made about owning a Mcdonald’s franchise operation. You own the restaurant. And McDonald’s cannot take it away from you,
Let’s say you are a supporter of the KKK and you are also a McDonald’s franchise owner, does McDonald’s not have the legal right NOT to have their name associated with your franchise because of this?
You still own the restaurant, but NOT the right to use the McDonald’s name.