"If the owners feel I have another chance, then they'll give it to me," he said.Video of newly surfaced, explosive recording of Sterling at the link.
The matter of the team's sale is with the NBA's Advisory/Finance Committee, which met Wednesday in a conference call. Members discussed the "termination of Mr. Sterling's ownership of the team," the NBA said in a news release.
If the case proceeds to a full vote, 75% of the owners would have to approve the forced sale.
However, an attorney for Donald Sterling's estranged wife, Shelly, told CNN Friday that she wants to keep her 50% stake in the team.
"She wants to remain a passive owner,"
Sunday, May 11, 2014
CNN: Clippers owner Donald Sterling says he's sorry
"I'm a good member who made a mistake and I'm apologizing and I'm asking for forgiveness," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview set to air on Monday. "Am I entitled to one mistake, am I after 35 years? I mean, I love my league, I love my partners. Am I entitled to one mistake? It's a terrible mistake, and I'll never do it again."
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From what we've heard about this guy, the best description of his mea culpa is Clintonian.
So am I. Now go away.
Hey she has to lose half of the team. This guy did the worst thing ever in the history of the world. He needs to be forced to sell his team so a serial adulterer who contracted a deadly sexually transmitted disease can take over.
Now that's a real role model!
You and your family should lose their property if your senilie grandfather says something that is not politically correct.
It is the new normal.
We almost need a war on our soil to regain some perspective.
Dude, I was just trying to get in the girls pants. I was saying lots of things. I was doing and saying whatever it took...
How was I supposed to know these guys were going to turn out to be terrorist, abduct hundreds of girls to sell...
Wait, what are talking about?
Who anointed Magic's Johnson as the arbiter of the sale? link He's been on this from day 1. Is he the point man for a hostile takeover?
All this focus on the property and propriety of sport team owners has me wondering...
...why nobody gives a shit about the behavior of the players.
At the risk of alienating myself even more at this forum, I think the importance of professional sports is way overblown. It could take a hit.
Magic is behind this whole thing. He is tight with the bitch that taped this guy. He did something similar with the LA Dodgers. He used a divorce to get control by being the front man for a bunch of money guys. JZ a noted drug dealer and lowlife got to be the front man for the purchase of the Brooklyn Nets by a member of the Russian Mafia. It is some crooked shit.
Is Magic Johnson the point man for a hostile takeover?
I don't know about that... His Google page says Magic was a point guard when he played professionally.
But your point is well taken.
I don't care if they sell the team but they should do it because they want to do it and not because they are forced to do it.
Staviano didn't necessarily have to be in on what Johnson is doing here.
She is the perfect stooge.
Splooge stooge?
(had to...)
Shouting Thomas said...
We almost need a war on our soil to regain some perspective.
I think we've already got one.
chickenlittle said...
At the risk of alienating myself even more at this forum, I think the importance of professional sports is way overblown.
That makes at least two of us.
Lem said...
Staviano didn't necessarily have to be in on what Johnson is doing here ... She is the perfect stooge.
Stooge? She got herself a Bentley and two Ferrari's IIRC. I imagine she got whatever she wanted and then some....old dude saying he was just trying to get laid is funny...if a Bentley + don't get you laid, nothing will. You must really stink bad.
No respect for the man. 80 y/o Billionaire and he's groveling. I think he really in all the anti-racist crap and is sorry he's sinned.
Will his NBA comrades brand him a counter-revolutionary and dispatch him to the gulag, or will they accept his confession that he has erred?
Dude?
Don't be a fool.
She never put a dick in her mouth until she was sure she was going to get paid. Why was she banging Sterling? For Love?
Jeeeze. Sometimes I think Red Sox fans are too stupid to live.
rcocean said...
80 y/o Billionaire and he's groveling.
Yeah, I don't get that. I got a Billion $$...y'all other dipwads can kiss my shiny heiny. I'd fucking give the club away to the Little Sisters of the Poor! Then pay off the wife and tell her to STFU too. Life can be good if you have a Billion $$.
Wait.
I apologize Lem. That was a little harsh.
But seriously? Get a grip. And not on your chalupa when Big Papi comes up. Just sayn'
However, an attorney for Donald Sterling's estranged wife, Shelly, told CNN Friday that she wants to keep her 50% stake in the team.
The Johnson people cheering on the demise of Sterling and the stripping of his team will have to face her wrath under the law. And I support her interest in this matter. She's also suing V. Stifiano for embezzlement. The Johnson people will have to smear her somehow.
Somebody put Staviano up to this. If it wasn't Magic Johnson, then who was it?
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So there are a bunch of white guys planning to vote him out of the league but it is Magic Johnson who is the instigator of a conspiracy? Johnson, like everyone else, just dislikes the bastard and is happy enough to kick him when he is down.
They are going to say she is not a good role model or as morally acceptable as a serial adulterer who contracted a deadly venereal disease that he more than likely passed on to other people in his promiscuous life style.
That's the kind of guy you want to own a team in your league.
Lem said...
Somebody put Staviano up to this. If it wasn't Magic Johnson, then who was it?
Let's hope that Sterling's wife's lawyers can compel a good discovery of related enough matters.
@ARM: It's one thing to berate, deride, and deprive Sterling of his property; it's quite another to do this to his spouse unless she's an accomplice somehow.
It's not complicated. Once Magic learned Staviano recorded the old goat... I can see her bragging about how she was "his right hand man"... All Magic had to do was create the conditions that would set the old guy off on tape.
The Instagrams.
Johnson, like everyone else, just dislikes the bastard and is happy enough to kick him when he is down.
I'm just asking why is he so front and center in this whole thing? What is his real role? Who are the real real parties at interest?
But go ahead, ARM: broaden the scope of your outrage to include her.
chickenlittle said...
@ARM: It's one thing to berate, deride, and deprive Sterling of his property; it's quite another to do this to his spouse unless she's an accomplice somehow.
The wife is awful too. She would have a case if currently divorced. Not sure what her case is without a divorce. In my experience guys usually have to sell their boats when they get divorced. Common property often has to be sold in order to finalize a divorce.
ARM wrote right on cue: The wife is awful too.
Let's hope that Sterling's wife's lawyers can compel a good discovery of related enough matters.
Live long and prosper... unfortunately, she is in her 80's.
@ARM: Do the Sterlings have any children? Have you thought about going after them yet?
When did it become unPC to say the wife is awful too?
In order for socialism to prosper property rights have to be weakened. This is one way to go about it.
Do the Sterlings have any children?
Predictably one killed himself.
Lem said...
In order for socialism to prosper property rights have to be weakened. This is one way to go about it.
That's a bingo, Lem
I saw Magic as an issue from the beginning. He's a Laker star, that the lady was parading at Clipper games. But, the racist stuff just was undeniable too for Sterling, it was there, and it came out clearly. The man is the very definition of a horrible person in so many ways, with his ownership of the Clippers being a perpetual problem. He was a horrible own for most of their history.
If Magic capitalizes on this, it'll be him being a businessman. And with Magic he at least is very invested in the LA area, with a lot of his money going into revitalization efforts and supporting the community. The former Dodger owners, the McCourts, were carpetbaggers from the get go, horrible people who were milking the team.
Magic knows basketball as well as anyone, is a good businessman, is committed to the community.
The Clippers sold to anyone else and the team moves. Which might be better for the team anyhow.
When did it become unPC to say the wife is awful too?
Who said anything about PC?
You're a white guy, right ARM?
I encountered an interesting term recently to describe the competition among white guys to excel at hating and spitting on their own kind.
Ethno-masochism.
AReasonableMan said...Predictably one killed himself.
How was that predictable?
Staviano incapacitated Sterling.
Lem said...
In order for socialism to prosper property rights have to be weakened. This is one way to go about it.
This is so much BS. If he loses his team it will be because he has pissed off the league and his fellow owners for decades and he will be amply compensated for his initial investment and subsequent spectacular mismanagement of the team. Worst owner in sports.
I'm more interested in how far down a family's tree you're will to smear, ARM.
Please continue along those lines. It's enlightening.
ARM,
Are you completely clean?
I guarantee you, you aren't.
Better cease the asshole act. You can be had, too.
I mean, you sound exactly like Crack -- willing to damn people for genetic reasons.
Any one of you motherfuckers can be set up by a clever whore.
Might be time to pull your head out of your ass, ARM, but I doubt you have the sense.
Ethno-masochism.
Great term, huh?
I think we have one of the better practitioners here in ARM.
chickenlittle said...
AReasonableMan said...Predictably one killed himself.
How was that predictable?
Have you been paying any attention at all to the parents? This being said, when I saw the interview with Staviano I began to feel sorry for Sterling. He must be suffering from some kind of dementia to put up with the stupid girlfriend.
@Paddy O: I have no clue what kind of legal discovery may be required in the Stefiano case or if a settlement would happen instead. But it's hard to believe that she instigated the recording (I believe she denied that already). For reasons completely unrelated to the facts of this case, that precedent needs to be litigated. The perp needs to to found and outed.
chickenlittle said...
I mean, you sound exactly like Crack -- willing to damn people for genetic reasons.
This is complete BS. You are beginning to sound like the local drunk, ST. The children have my fullest sympathies. No amount of money could make up for having those parents.
No, ARM, he wants love and sex.
Try thinking.
Just because you're old doesn't mean you stop wanting love and sex.
Besides, it is a traditional belief in most of the Old World societies that sex with a young woman is a virtual fountain of youth.
We now believe this and encourage it if the practitioner is and old woman chasing a young man. That's now good. Cougars, remember?
Is there any way to drag you out of the drugged world of indoctrination?
Yes, ARM, you are an ethno-masochist.
Cuckold fantasist, too.
That's the purpose Crack plays in your life.
There is no doubt in my mind that Magic set this up and is behind the whole thing. If I was advising the wife I would go to the wall and demand depositions and discovery and every other fucking thing.
Or offer to sell my percentage tot he league for double the appraised value.
After all she is a businesswoman and that excuses everything in ARM's book right? It's just business. It's not personal.
The Lefties see a chance to crucify somebody in the name of race (that they have to do this to one of their own says Sterling is anything but unique).
Sterling, from what little I gather of how the law works here, stands to take a bath if his half is sold.
The "apology" is to give himself cover and to remind the other owners, some of whom might find themselves in the same spot, that voting against him is voting against themselves.
As far as what Troop says, it sounds as if this is a new wrinkle in the Jessuh Jackson shakedown game - get a broad to tape the guy's private attitudes and use it to bleed him white (no pun).
As the NBA is the blackest of sports leagues in terms of players and fans, but white otherwise, this could easily be presented as one of those "my people" crusades.
AnUnreasonableTroll said...
Predictably one killed himself.
No, they could have thought the old man was the slickest, coolest guy in Creation and wanted to be just like him.
It all depends if he let them into his world.
This used to be America.
It used to be you couldn't take away someone's life because of something they said. Especially something that was taped illegally.
That was Russia. Not America.
Things have really changed.
It is a particularly low blow to say that his child killed himself because Donald Sterling was his father.
Do you think that is a sensible thing to say?
Or are you just being a dick?
Which is fine because I act like a dick all the time so no sweat if that was what you were trying to do.
We white guys have hit bottom.
Where do we go from here?
Trooper York said...
After all she is a businesswoman and that excuses everything in ARM's book right? It's just business. It's not personal.
I would guess you are correct that both of them will do everything within their power to fight this. And as far as the league and owners are concerned it is just business. They don't give a fuck about Sterling.
Hey take your own advice Shouting.
Live your life and enjoy it until you go toes up.
Then it will be somebody else's problem when they turn everything into Detroit.
Live your life and enjoy it until you go toes up.
I am taking that advice.
One of the things I enjoy is living like a man.
They never gave a shit about Sterling before except to rape him out of draft choices. Why should they give a shit now? What's different?
Other than the fact that he said something politically incorrect while being taped illegally and Magic Johnson wants to own a team?
Trooper York said...
Or are you just being a dick?
Which is fine because I act like a dick all the time so no sweat if that was what you were trying to do.
I am not sure my role here is to be an advocate for the Sterling's parenting skills.
I am not sure my role here is to be an advocate for the Sterling's parenting skills.
In truth, you don't know what that might be.
So, you haven't answered, ARM.
Are you completely clean?
You are so clean that a really beautiful, clever young whore couldn't take you for a ride?
Remember guys, lets try to keep it civil.
I'm not really interested in defending Donald Sterling except insofar as his opinions were obtained illegally and there has been no information regarding that. It seems to me a sign that it is highly sensitive and relevant to the embezzlement suit.
But when people like ARM are willing to start smearing spouses out of their rightful property too "for a cause, man" -- I will speak against him.
Shouting Thomas said ...
One of the things I enjoy is living like a man.
A man who made his living sponging off women.
A man who made his living sponging off women.
Good. Now, I've got your attention.
It could be possible to teach you, but you've got a long way to go.
You're sick with the ethno-masochism, ARM.
That shit can only be peeled away one layer at a time.
You're going to be pissed off every time one of the lies you've been living by is peeled away.
Cooperating with the defamation of you own kind in order to avoid the Evil Eye is a tempting strategy.
Right ARM?
No one is asking you to defend Sterling. He is obviously beyond the pale and should be run out of town and lose his property and I don't know be tarred and feathered or something.
It is the principle that you should defend. That wife shouldn't suffer for the sins of her husband that she had no part in and was in fact fighting against.
Even the freaking IRS has an innocent spouse rule.
Why can't you dude?
Why can't you dude?
Because purging the world of the Original Sin of racism long ago became an hysteria.
Now, it is morphing into madness and blood lust.
If you can't purge the sin from the sinners, perhaps the elimination of the sinners is the only possible course to cleanliness and purity.
Or are you saying that association with Donald Sterling is enough?
That she should lose everything because she is married to him?
That his children deserve to die at their own hand because they are simply his children?
Jeeze. Words are powerful things if they make all of that ok with you.
Think about it.
If some crazy old rich white bitch was running around town with some young black hunk, cleaning out her white husband's banking account and parading her whoring ways all over town...
I guarantee you she would be a media heroine.
Oprah would be hosting a book interview with the woman.
Trooper York said...
That his children deserve to die at their own hand because they are simply his children?
Did I say this? No. I expressed some sympathy for their children.
With respect to the wife's claims the issue is with the management of the team and the league's view of that management. If they view the Sterling's management as bad for the league they are within their rights to force a sale, as I understand the league's power.
If they view the Sterling's management as bad for the league they are within their rights to force a sale, as I understand the league's power.
If I were Sterling, I'd be prepared to back up the truck and dump the dirt on every player and executive in the league... in particular, on Magic Johnson.
I hope Sterling does precisely that.
How do you think Johnson acquired AIDS?
People in glass houses should be careful about throwing bricks.
If Sterling is a smart man, and I think he is because he made his fortune as a plaintiff's lawyer...
He'd be wise to employ agents to surreptitiously record conversations in every locker room, hotel room and board room used by the NBA.
He seems to know plenty of attractive whores who could find their way into these rooms.
He must have some friends in the press who would like to help him out.
I'd like to see a full scale war of terror on both sides. Why should only one side play?
AReasonableMan said...
Do the Sterlings have any children?
Predictably one killed himself.
Is that expressing sympathy for them?
Do we both speak English? Or am I missing something? Or in your zeal to prove you are not racist you might have overstepped and might want to pull back a little.
Blood lust is not a pretty thing.
I'm not really interested in defending Donald Sterling...
His erratic behavior is Zimmermaneske, at this point.
Women do that to guys.
Listen ARM I think you can actually be a reasonable man. Don't let your desire to be politically correct and destroy Sterling make you carry on your war to his wife and children.
I want to give you a break. The break you would never give to Donald Sterling or anyone else who is not sufficiently politically correct.
AReasonableMan said...
The children have my fullest sympathies. No amount of money could make up for having those parents.
Selective reading will only get you so far.
Plaintiff's lawyers are a pretty contentious group of SOBs. I've met a lot of them.
They like war. Or else they wouldn't be in that line of work.
It will be interesting to see what Sterling's next move might be.
Trooper, I don't believe you give any more of a fuck about Sterling than I do. This is about power plays within the league at this point. If David Stern was still commissioner Sterling would have received a slap on the wrist, as he has in the past.
Hey, I got a question for you guys. is the repeated use of the qualifier "at this point" on the verge of becoming a weasel phrase.
Using it so much also may have the unintended effect of aiding Hillary somehow.
Lord knows I don't want to do that.
Little discussed is that Sterling is a Jewish plaintiff's attorney.
That's a particularly warlike, cunning and tough breed.
I've worked for them.
Trooper, I don't believe you give any more of a fuck about Sterling than I do.
Nobody has suggested that that is the issue.
You see, what you've lost sight of is that universal disarmament in the war of tribal loyalties is suicide.
Ok. Whatever you say.
I just think your fullest sympathies are not worth all that much.
Good night, boys!
From what I've read about how Sterling made his money, Shout's take on him is on the money and I think a) he's going to fight this because he has a rep as a guy who will litigate anything and b) he knows where all the bodies are buried and is giving the league one last chance to back off.
You are absolutely right. I don't give a shit about Sterling. I give a shit about a principle.
That this is America and you can say what you want in the privacy of your own home without being worried that you will be taped and that they will use that tape to destroy you.
That is the issue. Not racism. Racism is a pretext.
It's useful to compare and contrast how the media treated Linda Tripp's taping of Monica versus their treatment of Staviano's taping of Sterling.......The Daily Mail had an article that reported Sterling used to beat his children with a belt buckle. For an extra added ingredient of Oedipal horror, Sterling used to beat them while he himself was in the nude. I'm pretty sure all his kids have problems and all that money just acts as a megaphone for their problems......This isn't much of a morality play. Sterling, the girlfriend, the wife, the NBA (both owners and players) are all flawed. I suppose it's possible that some are more flawed than others, but there's no way virtue will triumph in this drama.
It's useful to compare and contrast how the media treated Linda Tripp's taping of Monica versus their treatment of Staviano's taping of Sterling...
Very useful indeed.
Trooper York said...
That this is America and you can say what you want in the privacy of your own home without being worried that you will be taped and that they will use that tape to destroy you.
This was also the issue with the phone hacking of celebrities and not so celebrities in the UK. Thanks to the digital revolution it is a weird world we currently live in. I don't disagree with you but this particular horse left the stable a fair while ago.
What bullshit is all of this.
My only question is what Sterling's response would have been if his whore was screwing white guys, or, more correctly perhaps, posing with them.
The same I suspect, with different adjectives.
What a fucking to-do about nothing.
Unreasonable bitch said "A man who made his living sponging off women."
Hey, why do you have to bring Meade into this?
Now that's funny!!
How can you be 80 and not tell the world to go fuck itself?
...and a billionaire, besides. Something here makes no sense. Perhaps Sterling's gears are slipping.
Sixty Grit....yeah, no shit. Now quoting my self at 9:56 PM last evening:
Yeah, I don't get that. I got a Billion $$...y'all other dipwads can kiss my shiny heiny. I'd fucking give the club away to the Little Sisters of the Poor! Then pay off the wife and tell her to STFU too. Life can be good if you have a Billion $$.
I would depose every disgruntled ex-employee or mistress of all of the rest of the owners and the NBA commissioner and staff. Ask if they ever heard any one of them say the "N" word.
Then I would depose every player in the NBA both black and white and ask under oath if they ever said anything disparaging about another race.
I have a boat load of dough so I would run up the legal bills for the league until they squealed like the pigs that they are.
You guys are hilarious. His "life" was taken away? Good grief. He's a billionaire. He'll double his profit on a thousandth of his net worth with the sale, however forced his hand is in making it.
So much energy wasted huffing and puffing about a private corporation doing what it wants to preserve its image, and you missed that part.
Is this story done yet?
That this is America and you can say what you want in the privacy of your own home without being worried that you will be taped and that they will use that tape to destroy you.
Oh God. You actually believe that?!
That doesn't mean it's not sleazy or not "right". (I'd probably say "not cool"). But still.
You actually believed that?
Wow.
You see, what you've lost sight of is that universal disarmament in the war of tribal loyalties is suicide.
Lol. There's no "war" dude. The market has spoken.
Lem said...
"Remember guys, lets try to keep it civil."
May 11, 2014 at 10:53 PM
Heh.
Shouting Thomas said...
"Live your life and enjoy it until you go toes up.
I am taking that advice.
One of the things I enjoy is living like a man."
May 11, 2014 at 10:47 PM
*like a man*
Heh heh.
Thing is, is that there never should have been a story.
Mowing grass is kinda like living like a man, give you that.
The comparison to Linda Tripp fails precisely because we know what role Linda Tripp played.
In the Staviano case, she has denied releasing the tape so we are left wondering who did release it. There are no mystery characters like that in the Tripp/Lewinsky story.
Sterling needs to fight this to the end. I don't think he will but he should.
He seems like he is trying to apologize and ask for mercy. He should forget about it. The race hustlers and opportunists like Magic and Oprah have no mercy. So he is toast.
Unless he wants to fight them.
I think you should be able to say what you want in the privacy of your own home without being taped. Or write things in an email without the government having access to it. Or access to the records of who you call on the phone and what you talk about. But that is not possible I the National Security Big Brother State.
Sterling needs to fight this to the end. I don't think he will but he should.
He seems like he is trying to apologize and ask for mercy. He should forget about it. The race hustlers and opportunists like Magic and Oprah have no mercy. So he is toast.
Unless he wants to fight them.
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