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[QUOTE="TOL22, post: 1037899, member: 253"]
Here's the thing about rights:  Sterling has the right to say anything he wants, the caveat being that, as with all free speech, he has to be willing to accept that there may be consequences.

The consequences are this:

From a team standpoint, players not willing to play there, coaches not willing to coach there, fans not willing to buy tickets, product as a whole suffers.

From a league standpoint, all of the above applies, as well as concerns about advertising and sponsors, and the image of the NBA, which Stern let languish.  Silver is obviously sending a message.

Sterling is an old guy, and often old guys have the filters of a 4 year old.  Add to that the fact that he is rich, and probably at this stage in his life he is used to his entitled position.  So he said awful things, and ordinarily it would be a story until the next one came along.   But the NBA can't afford him, and the fact that he figuratively  owns black men and still says those things is frankly gross.

Honestly, I find the stuff that rancher said last week to be worse, but it's not a bad thing for the NBA to rid itself of Sterling
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