It's very similar to the Ukraine situation. The art of war is based around deception. Russia stages instability in Ukraine and then takes Crimea in the process. Magic and a female he was photographed with cause instability in the Clippers and Magic takes the team.
Would love to see Sterling out of the league, but would be concerned about Magic a guy who has such close ties with the Lakers buying the team that literally shares the same building as they do. I would think if I'm Silver, and Sterling can be coaxed to sell, the Seattle group should be first in line. However there are alot of people that dont want the team to leave LA in the league office for a variety of reasons. I dont see the Clippers getting moved. More than likely you will probably see a shift in power with the Clippers and Sterling will get a ban for an extended period of time. However I dont see him selling the team unfortunately. The guy is just a dick like that.
Also, why was the audio recorded and then released to the public? Was that ever addressed? Makes you wonder
This actually makes sense. And it would be good for Seattle to get a team with stars already in place, not as good as Durant, but better than starting from the bottom.
Sterling has always been a racist prick. This controversy didn't need much effort. It really is his time to go. 20 years too late. Thanks David Stern.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Sorry to ruin a beautiful idea, but source close to Magic says "zero, zero, zero conversations" about buying the Clips.</p>— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) <a href="https://twitter.com/ramonashelburne/statuses/460809632496091136">April 28, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Magic has said publicly he'd want to buy an NBA or NFL team, but Clippers aren't for sale and it's very hard for NBA to force a sale</p>— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) <a href="https://twitter.com/ramonashelburne/statuses/460809988005298178">April 28, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The Clippers are in the 2md largest market in the league, they are not moving to Seattle Secondly, Magic does not get along with the younger Buss family, they want no part of him, which is why he ditched his portion and bolted for the Dodgers. The Lakers didn't even want anything to do with Jerry West so he bounced as well.
If the NBA forced the sale of the Clippers, why wouldn't they allow the Sterling family (wife/children) to buy out DS first?
Honestly dont know, and dont even know if they can but the wife is the one who handles the operations in this present day anyway.
You don't think Magic has friends? Between him and a group of investors, as well as banks clamoring to do business with him, he could buy the Clippers by the end of the day.
Magic doesn't have the money. He has been the PR front for Guggenheim Partners for a while. Guggenheim Partners has plenty of money to buy the Clippers; they have $210 billion assets under management.
What Sterling said was wrong but I doubt the NBA can force a sale of the Clippers over what he said. He didn't use the "N" word and he committed no crime, Kevin Johnson was talking about levying the maximum on Sterling according to the NBA by-laws but didn't mention what that was. I would think if there is something in the rules that specify punishment for what Sterling did it would be in the form of some kind of fine and suspension but booting Sterling out of the league? I doubt it. What makes business sense for Sterling is another matter. If I was him, I might consider a sale just because the game is dominated by African Americans and who is ever going to want to play or coach for the man again.
Wasn't Ramona Shelburne one of the loudest saying Howard would never, ever, ever leave LA? Zero credibility anyway.
you do know that Jay Z owning a piece of the nets is total BS right? He owns like .00001% of the Net's. Pretty stupid.. Magic can own a sizeable chunk according to the article
