Big pay day for Sterling; good for him.
I guess as long as Ballsy knows the right time to shut up. he'll be okay....
The way he was huffing and puffing in the scope of that trailer, I doubt he'd last a period without trying out a set of paddles....They should give him court side seats for every game so he can do this dance every time the Clippers score.
Him and Mark Cuban can bare-knuckle box at every Mavs/Clippers game to determine who gets to hold the title as the most obnoxious owner.
The way he was huffing and puffing in the scope of that trailer, I doubt he'd last a period without trying out a set of paddles....
In all honesty, I'm now wondering whether the NBA has done the right thing by mandating a sale since it was reported on our local sports channel that sterling is mentally incapacitated. Don't know if this is true. But if he is then his unwise words could well be attributable to illness, not malice. On that basis maybe the league might allow his family to keep the team and dismiss the bad words as those of a sick, not bad, man. Well, for $2 B I'd gladly sell it but you have to wonder about the family's legacy.
LA Clippers to be sold to crazier, whiter, owner
All NBA owners are now licking their chops because if the Clippers, a pee-poor team at best over the years, are worth 2B What does that make the Celtics or the Knicks worth. NBA owners need to be watching their backs.I had also heard that the valuation had been redeclared at around 1.3B before this offer. One of the issues was forcing the sale and subsequent tax liability. It sounds to me like this offer may have been raised to eat his tax liability if sold at 1.3.
The OP poster is a racist, that's why.What does the colour of his skin matter?
Rise up, Walter, rise up! End the long oppression of your people! To arms! To arms!All NBA owners are now licking their chops because if the Clippers, a pee-poor team at best over the years, are worth 2B What does that make the Celtics or the Knicks worth. NBA owners need to be watching their backs.
The OP poster is a racist, that's why.
Rise up, Walter, rise up! End the long oppression of your people! To arms! To arms!
No? OK.
Umm. . . where in the post you quote did I say one word about the owner's skin?You think the colour of the owner's skin matters? Would you rather have an affirmative action marketplace? You would like to sell your BMW but must sell it to a black woman for 1/2 its value because there are too many white men driving BMWs.
Yes, I'm sure you'd much rather believe the issue of race is done and dusted in the U.S. and Canada.The colour of the new owner's skin is irrelevant. But since it is being brought up, the OP must be thinking along racial lines.
Sterling would be a fool not to take the offer.
It's at least twice what the most generous evaluation of the net worth of Clippers would appraise. It's 4 times the price of the last NBA transfer at $550M for the Milwaukee Bucks, this year. It is 6 times the price paid for the Seattle Sonics in 2006 at $350M (for which Ballmer also bid).
What does the colour of his skin matter?
I did hear reports that he was declared unable to make decisions around this, but I don't know how accurate those are. Apparently he is fighting that.
Regardless, if he isn't fit to run the team, he shouldn't run the team. The league approved him as the owner, not his family. If he isn't fit to run the team, they are more than within their rights to move on to the next best person. Selling the team for 2 billion certainly isn't the worst punishment in the world.