@AP: BREAKING: Judge rules against Clippers owner Donald Sterling, OKs sale of team to ex-Microsoft CEO.
Honestly, this is not a good thing. It goes to show, if the NBA doesn't like you or your city you won't have a team much longer. The guy is a racist and a bigot but two wrongs don't make a right.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A judge has ruled against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and cleared the way for the $2 billion sale of the team to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Judge Michael Levanas sided Monday with Sterling's estranged wife in the case that arose after the 80-year-old billionaire was banned by the NBA for making offensive remarks about blacks. Shelly Sterling sought the court's approval for the deal she negotiated after taking control of a family trust and removing her husband as a trustee after two doctors found he had Alzheimer's disease and couldn't manage his affairs. Donald Sterling claimed his wife deceived him about the medical exams. Sterling has vowed to fight the NBA until his death and is expected to continue to wage court battles to stop the sale. http://www.nba.com/2014/news/07/28/...index.html?cid=nbacomsocial_20140728_28651286
Not really, it shows that you can't be an open racist in a league that's about equality and against racism or hate against minorities. You really think they'd to the same just because they don't like a city or an owner? Nonsense. And by the way, Sterling will drag this through every court, nothing is finalized.
How many players have dropped racist comments when they're off the camera? You'd think they get banned for life if anything got recorded?
It depends on what you call open. Privately taped conversations with your mistress isn't so open to me. Him being a slum lord and making inappropriate comments about white players was ok with the NBA for quite some time. It was only after he was secretly recorded that people started to care. When you couple this power grab with what happened with the Sonics it goes to show, the NBA can do whatever the hell it wants.
I wonder if he appeals and what that does to the sale process if he does. Ballmer could probably convince Sterling to sell if he delivered the 2B in cash that's like 20M hundred dollar bills, a **** load of money.
Dude this was a probate case. The NBA wasn't even involved in this. Even still I don't agree with you if it was the NBA. He can't appeal, but he can sue on his own both his wife and the nba on a different term but it wouldn't matter anyway.
Dude, a judge just ruled against Sterling. The NBA was losing sponsors due to this. Sterling's actions led to material damages to the NBA revenue. So, the judge ruled against him. Besides, the NBA league office didn't force anything. The owners had to vote on the sell with a 60% majority. And all owners signed the bylaws to allow it. You can say you disagree with the judge, and disagree with the vote and disagree with the bylaws, but Silver did not just make up this right for owners to force a sell. And not true about city. The bylaws don't allow the NBA to force the the franchise to move cities. Wish people would stop saying the NBA Owners had no right to do this. Yes they did. And the judge agreed.
Just read he can appeal but California trust law allows her to sell the team even if he appeals. I guess if he wins a future appeal he'll get a damage settlement but the team will still be Ballmers.
