NBA strategy to force Sterling to sell centers on documents he signed

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- The National Basketball Association's strategy for forcing the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers by Donald Sterling hinges on a document the owner signed when he bought the team in 1981 that lays out reasons ownership could be terminated, a source familiar with the situation said Wednesday.

Sterling has been banned for life from the team's day-to-day operations and facilities and was fined $2.5 million last week for racist comments that were recorded and posted online late last month.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has asked the other 29 NBA owners to force Sterling, the longest-tenured owner in the league, to sell the Clippers.

The matter is with the Advisory/Finance Committee, which met Wednesday on a conference call. Members discussed the "termination of Mr. Sterling's ownership of the team," the NBA said in a news release. The committee will meet again next week, the statement said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/07/us/clippers-donald-sterling/index.html

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1. "Sell centers"? What about forwards?

does he have to sell point guards too? And are we talking just the starters, or the reserves, too? Coaches? Cheerleaders?

Jus' askin'. I hope the racist basturd has to sell the whole frickin' lot of 'em.

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2. And Tommy Lasorda shows his true colors ....

"I've been a friend of that guy's for 30 years," Lasorda said while getting an honorary degree from Northwood University in West Palm Beach, Florida. "It doesn't surprise me that he said those things.

So you stayed friends with someone whose racist comments don't surprise you, eh Tommy? Oh, and thanks for removing any doubt ...

As for Stiviano?

"And I don't wish that girl any bad luck," he said, "but I hope she gets hit with a car."

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3. He is a piece of work alright

The irony is that he said his friend "talks too much". Maybe the same can be said about him as well.

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4. MAjor legal problem is that his wife owns half the team. And she hasnt done anything.

It would be hard, legally, to force HER out of a team she owns.