The NBA was perceived to go light on Sarver. The Celtics suspended their coach for possibly a year. I am saying, I could see him being upset about treatment of bad deeds if he wanted to compare. Not that I would agree with it. The premise of his argument in that clip is stupid. He is a clown.
Yes, yes interesting. Stephen A Smith should know a lot about this. His show co-worker Molly Quirim was in a rumored inappropriate relationship while married to Jalen Rose with...oh yeah that's right Stephen A Smith. I bet Jalen Rose rolled his eyes at that rant. Oh yeah, nothing happened to Stephen A Smith by the way.
Correct me if I'm wrong as I have not been following everything closely, but Sarver had some people come out or testify to a review board that he did messed up things, but there was no hard evidence of it happening like audio or video of him doing or saying the messed up things that he was accused of. Sterling for instance had actual audio tapes of him saying really messed up stuff and therefor in that case the league took much harsher punishment. Clearly the league will go hard in the paint when they have iron clad evidence of your wrong doings, but they just didn't have that in Sarver's case. It probably would have been over quite a while ago if they did.
This is why I liked the idea of Ellison. He's a jerk but he's a competitive jerk and would be a jerk for us. Being #9 on the list of billionaires is nice too. Bezos is the only name that's out there that has more than him. The main thing I don't like about him is that he's 78. I wish he was a bit younger but then again, he has more motivation to win now.
Because he is a tool.. Imagine a white broadcaster saying "black folks". Sarver should sell and he is but he did received the maximum fine of 10 million. Good riddance Sarver. Who really takes SAS serioulsy?
Thanks for the information, you're right he seems out of our reach.
We are not talking one or two people. It appears it was a laundry list of people. There were 80,000 documents reviewed, multiple witnesses that corroborated like behavior over an 18 year period. You don't need Audio/video for hard evidence. IMO, it had nothing to do with hard evidence. Multiple reporters said insiders in the league office told them they didn't want to deal with a lawsuit with Sarver. My guess is the league had planned from day one to let the media, fans and sponsors do their job for them.
It’s amazing to me that there are STILL some people whitewashing the systemic racial, sexist and mysoginist abuse Sarver engaged in for almost TWO DECADES. The report laid out a ton of instances where Sarver ADMITTED to saying the N-word 5 different times “in context” and multiple eyewitnesses, and the same goes for a rash of other horrific conduct which was admitted by Sarver “contextually” and even more eyewitnesses… Ah forget it.
My main question with Ellison is: why doesn’t he already own a team? He attempted to purchase the Grizzlies, Warriors, and Pelicans. With as much money as he has, what kept him from getting one of those previous teams he was interested in?
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Congrats!
All I can go off of is recent history and when they had iron clad evidence against Sterling he was cast out very quickly. Testimonies by even many people is not anywhere near as iron clad as actual audio of what was said.
But an admission is. And they had that from sarver on a few of the accounts.
Congrats on a great week!!!
Congrats !!
But as Silver said, what can be done to an owner is different.
Good article from Dan Bickley. I hadn't heard the anecdote about Jerry C., but doesn't surprise me a bit...
Bickley: Phoenix Suns, fans liberated by Robert Sarver's decision to sell
The Phoenix Suns will get a chance for renewal with owner Robert Sarver’s announcement that he is selling.
