Reading that article right now and man....that's a metric ton of smoke there. If Silver gets just one single receipt/hard evidence (like the recording in Sterling's case) it's over for Sarver.
It will be interesting to see what Silver and the league, who have known this story was coming for some time, does next. I don't see how they couldn't have known what was going on, especially when you have agents, coaches and co-owners making noise. I know they'll cover their asses tho.
Between not doing much like in the case of the Dallas Mavericks and their recent issues and forcing an owner out in the case of the Clippers...I think, unfortunately, it'll be more of the former unless there's a smoking gun somewhere. The allegations and reports are wholly damning for sure but I don't think the NBA/Silver can do much without concrete evidence...a fine? a suspension of the owner from attending games? That's possible but nothing on the Sterling levels until hard evidence comes up.
I agree. I expect we'll see a statement any minute now from the commissioner's office expressing concern, followed by an investigation. What happens next will be anyone's guess but, you're right, I'm not seeing Sterling-level trouble for him, yet. Some heads in the Suns HR department will probably roll and, like you said, Sarver will probably wind up stepping away from the limelight, at least for a time. I hope if nothing else that this is a lesson to Tilman to stay as far away as possible from the Rockets.
I don't know what kind of hard evidence is needed. It seems that in this me-too age, all you need to oust someone is to have enough people willing to testify. I mean, this is not a criminal case. It's a business trying to keep a good public image.
Even without any of these allegations, I doubt a single Suns fan would've been disappointed by a Sarver ouster anyways so seeya I guess.
The fact that Dan Snyder is still the owner of the Washington Football Team after everyone knows he was engaging in human trafficking, kidnapping, forced p*rnography and god knows what else is in the 650,000 emails they have doesn't give me especially great hope that anything is going to be done here without an absolute smoking gun of a recording. It would probably take something like a hot mic on a team bus, where Sarver was caught being openly misogynistic and talking about sexual assault and infidelity, for him to be removed as owner. If anyone was that dumb and arrogant, I'm sure that they'd be such a huge disgrace that their public support would completely crater. People would be embarrassed to be associated with both Sarver and the team.
