Man, I don't like the whole thing. Seemed like everyone involved was trying to save face including the likes of the NAACP (who was about to give him a lifetime achievement award btw...shows how much money can buy). He just had to fall on the sword now when his comments didn't actually directly harm anyone vs when his actions actually did in the past and it was ignored. Only when it was bad for business did the moral police rush out.
IMO, best solution would be to let him keep the Clippers and instead offer the players the opportunity to be free agents. That way, if everyone actually leaves he gets a paperweight for a team and loses money. The way Silver went, Sterling actually makes money. If he ends up selling for $600m plus. What's a 2.5m fine? I guess the NBA doesn't want one of their teams to go defunct but who knows, for the right amount of cash, some players would probably still stay.
"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)
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It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
