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[QUOTE="moqui, post: 1037994, member: 214"]
Wasn't a Clips fan per se, but I used to have a share in Clippers' season tix (in partnership with 3 other guys).   We'd do a draft and pick 10 games each; Clippers stunk in those years but it was a great way to see NBA games because the best Lakers tickets are $$$$.  Still, four years of games has left a fondness in my heart.

I have mixed emotions about this - on the one hand, Sterling is an embarrassment and it is good for the league to be rid of him.  Of course, on the other hand, the thought that you can take someone's stuff just because he said something offensive bothers me.  I don't like the precedent - his behavior wasn't offensive on Friday, but on Tuesday his team is taken away, while his character remains unchanged.  As I noted in another thread, everyone has known that Sterling is a bigot - the courts have found him liable for discrimination on more than one occasion.  So why did they turn a blind eye to his deeds but get all upset about this weird psycho-sexual thing he has going on ("you can fcuk black guys, but don't Instagram with them").   I even remember people asking Doc Rivers last summer if he thought he could work for a man with Sterling's history, and he tiptoed around it without really answering.  So, everyone put up with this clown for years, but suddenly this?  It's a bit Orwellian, like a 2 Minute Hate.

Of course, on the third hand, this has to be a tremendous relief to the Clippers players.  My chiropractor is the unofficial team chiropractor, and he told me yesterday that the team psyche was fcked.  Maybe this will serve as something that they can rally around.
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