Sirius Dogon
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Sources: Donald Sterling has cancer
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/...angeles-clippers-owner-donald-sterling-cancer
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/...angeles-clippers-owner-donald-sterling-cancer
Clippers Owner Donald Sterling to GF - Don't Bring Black People to My Games,
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Bliss
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http://thegrio.com/2014/05/01/naacp...kins-resigns-over-sterling-award-controversy/
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP has resigned, following scrutiny of his decision to give Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling an award for promoting civil rights.
According to the national leader of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, Leon Jenkins resigned Thursday.
Jenkins had planned to present Sterling with a “lifetime achievement award” later this month. Jenkins rescinded that offer this week after a recording surfaced on which Sterling disparaged black men.
In his resignation letter, Jenkins wrote that “In order to separate the Los Angeles NAACP and the NAACP from the negative exposure I have caused the NAACP, I respectfully resign my position.”
The national NAACP said it is “developing guidelines for its branches to help them in their award selection process.”
He had to resign, because in the article I read yesterday, IF he didn't, they were going to FIRE him...
"But one NAACP source put it differently, telling us ... "He knew we were coming for him and we were gonna get him out of there, so he resigned."
Also, the NAACP were scurrilous in the first place for hiring this clown to head them. As with Sterling, they likely knew Leon Jenkins's law license had been revoked in Michigan and California, and that he was stripped from the bench as a judge in Detroit for “systematically and routinely selling his office.”, as well as his indictments for bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud and racketeering charges...
I bet he drew a nice fat salary from them, too.
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now we wait...first to see how many owners will vote to have sterling banned for good and/or forced to sell...let the bidding wars begin
i don't know about the rest of you but i hope the voting becomes public knowledge and that 100% of owners say yes to the end of sterling
on a side note ^ I saw that Sterling has cancer...although I don't wish disease on anyone I think it is really lame to leak to the media an illnes in hopes of pulling on people's heartstrings
i don't know about the rest of you but i hope the voting becomes public knowledge and that 100% of owners say yes to the end of sterling
on a side note ^ I saw that Sterling has cancer...although I don't wish disease on anyone I think it is really lame to leak to the media an illnes in hopes of pulling on people's heartstrings
orejon4
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http://thegrio.com/2014/05/01/naacp...kins-resigns-over-sterling-award-controversy/
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP has resigned, following scrutiny of his decision to give Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling an award for promoting civil rights.
According to the national leader of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, Leon Jenkins resigned Thursday.
Jenkins had planned to present Sterling with a “lifetime achievement award” later this month. Jenkins rescinded that offer this week after a recording surfaced on which Sterling disparaged black men.
In his resignation letter, Jenkins wrote that “In order to separate the Los Angeles NAACP and the NAACP from the negative exposure I have caused the NAACP, I respectfully resign my position.”
The national NAACP said it is “developing guidelines for its branches to help them in their award selection process.”
This is where the NAACP illustrates their utter ineffectiveness as an organization, and their total capitulation to and co-opting by, those against whom they are supposed to represent their constituency.
Soulthinker
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Does Sterling thinks he can gain points on his illness? He didn't give a rat's butt to other minorities.
orejon4
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Smells like PR spirit to me.
demattha28
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Cancer released a statement. It would like to end it's association with Donald Sterling.
Sirius Dogon
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Donald Sterling: I Was Only Saying Racist Things To Get Laid
http://deadspin.com/donald-sterling-i-was-only-saying-racist-things-to-get-1574139843
Donald Sterling should probably go ahead and assume everything he says is being recorded. In the past two days, two recordings of Sterling talking to a friend on the phone have popped up on Radar Online. In both, he insists he's not racist, and tries to justify the leaked audio that got him pushed out of the NBA. In the latest, he gets a little gross.
"I'm talking to a girl. I'm trying to have sex with her," Sterling says, shattering records for the unsexiest thing you've ever heard.
V. Stiviano has maintained that she never had sex with Sterling, which seems odd, but in these tapes Sterling doesn't sound like a guy who was getting it on the reg.
But then Sterling puts "being photographed with black guys" right up there among the classic boasts meant to seduce a woman, and we're less surprised his tactics didn't work.
Now you that you've heard Donald Sterling say "penis," there's really not much more to accomplish this week. Go home; you've earned it.
http://deadspin.com/donald-sterling-i-was-only-saying-racist-things-to-get-1574139843
Donald Sterling should probably go ahead and assume everything he says is being recorded. In the past two days, two recordings of Sterling talking to a friend on the phone have popped up on Radar Online. In both, he insists he's not racist, and tries to justify the leaked audio that got him pushed out of the NBA. In the latest, he gets a little gross.
"I'm talking to a girl. I'm trying to have sex with her," Sterling says, shattering records for the unsexiest thing you've ever heard.
V. Stiviano has maintained that she never had sex with Sterling, which seems odd, but in these tapes Sterling doesn't sound like a guy who was getting it on the reg.
But then Sterling puts "being photographed with black guys" right up there among the classic boasts meant to seduce a woman, and we're less surprised his tactics didn't work.
Now you that you've heard Donald Sterling say "penis," there's really not much more to accomplish this week. Go home; you've earned it.
orejon4
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They should call up Don and ask for their citizens to be released from his body.
DonnyJ
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Hey, you can't take this man's cancer away from him. He has rights.
Sirius Dogon
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DonnyJ
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That's some good ol' deflecting right there.
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Sirius Dogon
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Shelly Sterling accuses other NBA owners of being afraid to stick up for DS
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....of-be-afraid-to-stick-up-for-donald-sterling/
Shelly Sterling is better at staying on message than Donald Sterling.
I don’t personally care much about that skill, but when reading her answers in an interview with Scott Cacciola of The York Times, I was struck by their similarity to her answers on the Today show.
With The Times, though, she spoke about an angle of the issue she didn’t cover with Today. Shelly:
Donald is approaching the other owners – his “partners” as he repeatedly calls them – with honey, and Shelly is attacking from the other side with vinegar. A coordinated strategy?
Even if it is, it probably doesn’t matter.
I am convinced Adam Silver knew he had the 23 votes necessary to expel Sterling when he set that punishment in motion. If not, that would have been a colossal mistake by the NBA commissioner.
And once Silver has the votes, everyone will fall in line. I can’t imagine an NBA owner stupid enough to cast a protest vote against removing Sterling’s ownership. The PR hit would be huge – and, with Silver pushing his agenda, the owner’s identity would get leaked.
If an owner believes Sterling shouldn’t be ousted – perhaps worried, like Shelly said, about their own skeletons – why vote against removing him in a losing cause? At that point, who cares whether it’s 28-2 or unanimous? There’s no use going down with the ship.
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....of-be-afraid-to-stick-up-for-donald-sterling/
Shelly Sterling is better at staying on message than Donald Sterling.
I don’t personally care much about that skill, but when reading her answers in an interview with Scott Cacciola of The York Times, I was struck by their similarity to her answers on the Today show.
With The Times, though, she spoke about an angle of the issue she didn’t cover with Today. Shelly:
Donald is approaching the other owners – his “partners” as he repeatedly calls them – with honey, and Shelly is attacking from the other side with vinegar. A coordinated strategy?
Even if it is, it probably doesn’t matter.
I am convinced Adam Silver knew he had the 23 votes necessary to expel Sterling when he set that punishment in motion. If not, that would have been a colossal mistake by the NBA commissioner.
And once Silver has the votes, everyone will fall in line. I can’t imagine an NBA owner stupid enough to cast a protest vote against removing Sterling’s ownership. The PR hit would be huge – and, with Silver pushing his agenda, the owner’s identity would get leaked.
If an owner believes Sterling shouldn’t be ousted – perhaps worried, like Shelly said, about their own skeletons – why vote against removing him in a losing cause? At that point, who cares whether it’s 28-2 or unanimous? There’s no use going down with the ship.
orejon4
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Lmao. What has this country come to under Obama? Everything's about redistribution, redistribution, redistribution...
I think the news media is going to keep giving him the microphone so he can keep putting his foot in his own mouth.
Peach State Scholar
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orejon4
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I was watching the segment with Anderson Cooper where he's talking about Magic and HIV and you can see Anderson getting pissed with Sterling even as he's interviewing him.
Sirius Dogon
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wins Clippers bidding war for $2 billion
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-sn-clippers-sale-ballmer-20140529-story.html
Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has won a frenetic bidding war for ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, with a $2-billion offer that would set a record price for an NBA team.
Ballmer bid higher than competitors that included Los Angeles-based investors Tony Ressler and Bruce Karsh and a group that included David Geffen and executives from the Guggenheim Group, the Chicago-based owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Geffen group offered $1.6 billion and the Ressler-Karsh group $1.2 billion. People familiar with both those offers said they were rejected.
Ballmer and Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling concluded a deal late Thursday afternoon. But Bobby Samini, an attorney for Donald Sterling, said as he left the team co-owner's home: "There's been no sale. There can be no sale without Donald's signature."
The sale price would be almost four times the previous NBA franchise high: the $550 million paid earlier this month for the Milwaukee Bucks. It is the second highest price ever paid for a sports team in North America. The Dodgers sold in 2012 for $2.1 billion.
Donald Sterling agreed last week to allow his wife to conduct a sale of the team. The process was rushed to beat a Tuesday deadline five days ahead of an NBA hearing to oust her family from ownership. Donald Sterling had insulted African Americans in a secret audio recording.
Donald Sterling has waxed and waned on the question of whether he would allow his wife to sell the team he has controlled for more than three decades.
The deal also needs the eventual approval of three-fourths of the 30 NBA owners, but is expected to clear that hurdle as long as Ballmer reaffirms his pledge to keep the team in Los Angeles and not move it to home in Seattle.
Ballmer, 58, left the software giant in February and has an estimated net worth of $20 billion. Unlike other bidders, he did not immediately seek out partners for the purchase of the Clippers
Ballmer last year joined a group, led by hedge fund manager Chris Hansen, to bid on the Sacramento Kings, intending to move the team to Seattle. NBA owners voted to reject the proposed move.
The businessman said in a recent interview that he had no intention of moving the Clippers. He said that the high valuations for the team only made sense in Los Angeles, the second biggest media market in the country.
I guess it pays to be a racist.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-sn-clippers-sale-ballmer-20140529-story.html
Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has won a frenetic bidding war for ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, with a $2-billion offer that would set a record price for an NBA team.
Ballmer bid higher than competitors that included Los Angeles-based investors Tony Ressler and Bruce Karsh and a group that included David Geffen and executives from the Guggenheim Group, the Chicago-based owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Geffen group offered $1.6 billion and the Ressler-Karsh group $1.2 billion. People familiar with both those offers said they were rejected.
Ballmer and Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling concluded a deal late Thursday afternoon. But Bobby Samini, an attorney for Donald Sterling, said as he left the team co-owner's home: "There's been no sale. There can be no sale without Donald's signature."
The sale price would be almost four times the previous NBA franchise high: the $550 million paid earlier this month for the Milwaukee Bucks. It is the second highest price ever paid for a sports team in North America. The Dodgers sold in 2012 for $2.1 billion.
Donald Sterling agreed last week to allow his wife to conduct a sale of the team. The process was rushed to beat a Tuesday deadline five days ahead of an NBA hearing to oust her family from ownership. Donald Sterling had insulted African Americans in a secret audio recording.
Donald Sterling has waxed and waned on the question of whether he would allow his wife to sell the team he has controlled for more than three decades.
The deal also needs the eventual approval of three-fourths of the 30 NBA owners, but is expected to clear that hurdle as long as Ballmer reaffirms his pledge to keep the team in Los Angeles and not move it to home in Seattle.
Ballmer, 58, left the software giant in February and has an estimated net worth of $20 billion. Unlike other bidders, he did not immediately seek out partners for the purchase of the Clippers
Ballmer last year joined a group, led by hedge fund manager Chris Hansen, to bid on the Sacramento Kings, intending to move the team to Seattle. NBA owners voted to reject the proposed move.
The businessman said in a recent interview that he had no intention of moving the Clippers. He said that the high valuations for the team only made sense in Los Angeles, the second biggest media market in the country.
I guess it pays to be a racist.
The Dark King
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http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-sn-clippers-sale-ballmer-20140529-story.html
Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has won a frenetic bidding war for ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, with a $2-billion offer that would set a record price for an NBA team.
Ballmer bid higher than competitors that included Los Angeles-based investors Tony Ressler and Bruce Karsh and a group that included David Geffen and executives from the Guggenheim Group, the Chicago-based owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Geffen group offered $1.6 billion and the Ressler-Karsh group $1.2 billion. People familiar with both those offers said they were rejected.
Ballmer and Clippers co-owner Shelly Sterling concluded a deal late Thursday afternoon. But Bobby Samini, an attorney for Donald Sterling, said as he left the team co-owner's home: "There's been no sale. There can be no sale without Donald's signature."
The sale price would be almost four times the previous NBA franchise high: the $550 million paid earlier this month for the Milwaukee Bucks. It is the second highest price ever paid for a sports team in North America. The Dodgers sold in 2012 for $2.1 billion.
Donald Sterling agreed last week to allow his wife to conduct a sale of the team. The process was rushed to beat a Tuesday deadline five days ahead of an NBA hearing to oust her family from ownership. Donald Sterling had insulted African Americans in a secret audio recording.
Donald Sterling has waxed and waned on the question of whether he would allow his wife to sell the team he has controlled for more than three decades.
The deal also needs the eventual approval of three-fourths of the 30 NBA owners, but is expected to clear that hurdle as long as Ballmer reaffirms his pledge to keep the team in Los Angeles and not move it to home in Seattle.
Ballmer, 58, left the software giant in February and has an estimated net worth of $20 billion. Unlike other bidders, he did not immediately seek out partners for the purchase of the Clippers
Ballmer last year joined a group, led by hedge fund manager Chris Hansen, to bid on the Sacramento Kings, intending to move the team to Seattle. NBA owners voted to reject the proposed move.
The businessman said in a recent interview that he had no intention of moving the Clippers. He said that the high valuations for the team only made sense in Los Angeles, the second biggest media market in the country.
I guess it pays to be a racist.
So now he's worth twice as much? And there continues to be no justice in the world. Wow