he needs to go.

an owner for "actions detrimental to the game." NBA rules only allow for hurting the "financial interests of the game" which is much more vague. The advertisers need to pull out or a full players' strike (probably after the playoffs) will be needed to remove Sterling. The commissioner is mostly powerless to deal with an asshat owner.

I'm not sure that a year suspension is strong enough. He should be forced to sell the team.

you'd be suspending half the players in any sport, half the owners, half the announcers. The cheating is not the issue. The racist comments are the issue.

unfortunately for the wealthy older men like himself and Donald Trump - they main game plan is going for the trophy girlfriend/future wife.

The girlfriend is no better. I'd highly doubt she would even think of dating someone like Sterling if he wasn't extremely rich so my opinion of her isn't that much better.

Even if I think the girlfriend is a golddigger that still doesn't justify the comment that Sterling made about African Americans.

Only an inability to pay his bills or other severe financial difficulties would trigger the owner's ability to force Sterling to give up ownership. I want him gone as much as anyone, but they're going to have to get creative. In any case, comparing the NBA to MLB is apples to oranges.

There's no clause in the franchise contract prohibiting conduct detrimental to the image of the league? That's an omission so glaring that it calls into question the competence of the people who drafted the contract language.

She was back as owner for the next season. She didn't learn anything.

One thing about these aging racists, their racist mentality is hard-coded in their brains. They remember a time when they were kids that it was ok to discriminate and no one thought poorly of them. For people like Sterling, Schott, Paul Dean, Clivan Bundy and others - their racist speak is nothing more than second nature.

I could have easily turned out like one of them. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania where racist talk was everyday normal conversation at my high school. I guess something triggered in my brain that said 'This is not right'. Of course my Dad was a big help with that too.

"I could have easily turned out like one of them."

He should be forced to speak openly and at length on what the 1% really thinks about everything. He could inspire millions to strip these a-holes of money and power. As President Obama noted, ignorant people need to talk so we see how ignorant they are.

My guess is the BLM folks out there in Nevada had regular dealings with Clivan Bundy and were very much aware of his racist attitude. So when Sean Hannity and the Tea Bag expressed rolled into Bundy's ranch, those people saw Bundy as this nice old-guy just trying to make a living raising his cattle and being wronged by the government. None of those people had a clue who Clivan Bundy really was but the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) surely did.

I think BLM keyed in the government that they should just walk away from any forcible battles with Bundy. They knew if Bundy was given enough lee-way he'd shoot himself in the foot and would make Sean Hannity, the Tea Baggers and Faux news all look like racist assholes for supporting him.