First off Kudos to Silver for doing all in his power to Get Sterling the **** out of here.
As for the actual happenings... this is the equivalent to a cop taking a life and getting desk duty or payed leave, It changes absolutely nothing. the onus was on the players to stand up and take this to new heights instead everyone will say "OMG They suspended him for life" it will be in the media for another week and rather than stopping & analyzing the real problem behind this it will be back to normal.
The clippers will fall to someone in his family, or another one of the minority partners who sat their all along and did business with this man knowing the hate he contains & once again a black problem is given a bandaid by a system while blacks chant and celbrate as if something was done. We've all seen this show before & it happens everytime, This was never about Sterling & with the perfect opportunity for players to make that statement to the world they held back and now this becomes just a regular sports story that will quickly dissolve.