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My have tides have turned. Laker fans want that Clipper roster so bad. Just praying Silver releases them all...
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Sterling isn't racist. Racist people don't hire the race they hate and pay them millions Racist don't smash girls of the race they hate and by her a condo 2 bentleys a land rover and give her 1 million dollars Dude is just ignorant
My have tides have turned. Laker fans want that Clipper roster so bad. Just praying Silver releases them all...
Kareems pov
What bothers me about this whole Donald Sterling affair isn’t just his racism. I’m bothered that everyone acts as if it’s a huge surprise. Now there’s all this dramatic and very public rending of clothing about whether they should keep their expensive Clippers season tickets. Really? All this other stuff I listed above has been going on for years and this ridiculous conversation with his girlfriend is what puts you over the edge? That’s the smoking gun?
He was discriminating against black and Hispanic families for years, preventing them from getting housing. It was public record. We did nothing. Suddenly he says he doesn’t want his girlfriend posing with Magic Johnson on Instagram and we bring out the torches and rope. Shouldn’t we have all called for his resignation back then?
Shouldn’t we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media? Didn’t we just call to task the NSA for intruding into American citizen’s privacy in such an un-American way? Although the impact is similar to Mitt Romney’s comments that were secretly taped, the difference is that Romney was giving a public speech. The making and release of this tape is so sleazy that just listening to it makes me feel like an accomplice to the crime. We didn’t steal the cake but we’re all gorging ourselves on it. (Via TIME)
Whole piece
. http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/
Glad I read the whole article, cause with just that excerpt posted, Kareem was basically giving that deflecting the real issue point of view. But the actual article is on point.
Right here.The game is not important anymore, sorry.
My have tides have turned. Laker fans want that Clipper roster so bad. Just praying Silver releases them all...
What is the REAL possibility of players starting their own League... you would think players after the last lockout would have inquired about this, it's surely a Loss in the beginning but after 10 years i could see them booming bigger than Ever.
Basketball is already an 80% Black League, the fans wouldn't have issues with the owners being black ... however how would venues and these billion dollar corporations handle having to do business with young black millionaires directly.
What is the REAL possibility of players starting their own League... you would think players after the last lockout would have inquired about this, it's surely a Loss in the beginning but after 10 years i could see them booming bigger than Ever.
Basketball is already an 80% Black League, the fans wouldn't have issues with the owners being black ... however how would venues and these billion dollar corporations handle having to do business with young black millionaires directly.
I get where everyone is coming from but if we learned nothing from this entire ordeal is that Money talks. If somehow players were to stick together and say we are starting are own league how long would it be until other billion dollar industries follow suit. The owners, & business people aren't what's selling the NBA, its the players and the quality of the Basketball Players.
If they decide not to play under the NBA then the NBA has NOTHING. Do you think arenas are gonna sellout with B grade players? Media coverage will still benefit off covering players nobody knows?
The players would be able to sure up Arenas and TV deals because the Money would be guaranteed for those venues. The only thing that could stop them from really taking the League is early monetary issues, but if people were really concerned about creating generational wealth and getting rid of this complex of Owner's not understanding their players... this would be the perfect avenue to do it.
Within ten years i could only Imagine the power and control that these guys would have and the amount of businesses who would be "forced" to listen to them.
What is the REAL possibility of players starting their own League... you would think players after the last lockout would have inquired about this, it's surely a Loss in the beginning but after 10 years i could see them booming bigger than Ever.
Basketball is already an 80% Black League, the fans wouldn't have issues with the owners being black ... however how would venues and these billion dollar corporations handle having to do business with young black millionaires directly.
i dunno if this has been posted yet... but read this ignorant article posted on gawker. http://gawker.com/black-people-are-cowards-1568673014
^^ Truth be told, players don't even have to form a league. Imagine if Paul, Griffin, and other stars from other teams just left for Euro-leagues. They would make less, but it would still be great money and the NBA would feel the pain as their advertising dollars followed the players overseas.
^^ Truth be told, players don't even have to form a league. Imagine if Paul, Griffin, and other stars from other teams just left for Euro-leagues. They would make less, but it would still be great money and the NBA would feel the pain as their advertising dollars followed the players overseas.