Donald Sterling Banned From NBA Games For Life

I like this guy.

Arranging to have every conversation recorded means that anyone he speaks with via telephonic device has to understand the implications of being recorded.

And after reading the actual penal code on this: No laws were broken

It's not illegal to give the tapes away or sell them. TMZ doesn't have to give up their source. Though, I'm sure there is probably a very easily spotted paper trail.

It would be illegal if Sterling was unaware of the fact he was being taped, but since he records all his conversations, it is moot.

But being that none of this happened in a court of law, it is what is it is: He showed himself to be an *** and was shown the door.

Just make racism illegal and punishable of up to $1,000,000 fine. Then give a vague generic description of what racism is, without going into specifics. Problem solved.

Hell why not? Not being told right from wrong as a rich kid is.

As long as the fine for filing a false report is also set at $1,000,000.

Well if you were to ask Sterling, he would say the fine was actually $2,500,000.

Touche.

Ok it needs to carry a prison sentence as well then.

There's a legal defense word for that. Can't remember it right now, but yeah if that's a legal defense, I can see why the proletarian needs it as well.

Should go to prison for watching the NBA...they ever hear of playing defense ?

Affluenza!

Yeah can't think of the word for ish myself.

Vic got it. Affluenza!

So you're argument is yeah this terrible idea should be put into effect because this other terrible idea was used and even though I complained about it I'm going to use it to push this terrible idea through because it fits what I want it to atm?

/sigh

Don't worry... thinking like that will always backfire on you.

God Bless America!

Haha Pleebo trolling you guys so hard.

This has already been gone over. Private electronic recordings of two party conversations are treated as mail and it's illegal to break into someone's house, steal their mail and release it into the public domain. Both parties must consent prior to it being released into the public domain either in original form or a facsimile thereof. One party and a court order would also suffice. Even though this is all civil law so 1st amendment protections don't' apply, right to privacy does exist and this is definitely it.

Skimmed over the thread and this:


is the most insightful and correct comment. The legality of how Sterling's views went public is absolutely irrelevant to Commissioner Silver's decision. The NBA was protecting the other owners in the league from being financially harmed by the association with Sterling's tarnished public image. They were acting within their rights. I actually think that Silver increased the league's value by doing this, as responses to Sterling's lifetime ban yesterday were generally very positive, from what I saw. Also, Sterling is a terrible franchise owner *even aside from past racial issues*. Giving him the axe pleased the vast majority of basketball fans.

I'm a little surprised that there's much debate in this topic. Donald Sterling is a billionaire. This isn't a Cliven Bundy, some nobody spewing hatred during his 15 minutes of fame. Sterling employs hundreds of people. It's not just that he has racist beliefs. He is in a position to actively discriminate against those under him, in the very sort of institutional racism that Chief Justice Roberts declared dead a few weeks ago.

For someone like Donald Sterling to hold these kind of beliefs, and to have allegedly acted on them in the past, makes him a reprehensible human being.

Depends where you live.

Where I am, as long as one party involved (including the person doing the recording) knows the conversation is being recorded, you can do whatever you want with it.

I'm not sure where they were when the recording took place or what the laws involved there would be, and I remember hearing that at some point he acknowledged that he was being recorded but just didn't care.

There isn't much debate, just a few people trying to focus on irrelevant pieces of the story. How the tapes were obtained doesn't justify decades of pathetic business practice.

I don't believe I've ever contested any of this. If he wants to go after the ex, who, in all likelihood, is responsible for the recordings getting out either directly or indirectly, he can. It's not going to help him get his position back because the NBA doesn't give a *** how they were obtained. It's a PR disaster that could only have been resolved by shitcanning him.

And it's not like the girlfriend has enough money to cover his losses anyway. He can take her for all she's worth, but she's worth peanuts compared to him.

Leon Jenkins Resigns Over Move to Honor Sterling

Good riddance, he was a terrible President of that chapter and should be embarrassed for giving Sterling, the worst owner in any sport, any kind of achievement award, much less 2.

I wonder if Mr. Sterling is going to go after his ex gf in court. I did a little bit of research and while he does consent to having his conversations recorded, I can only assume that he does so with the reasonable expectation of privacy. I have reason to believe that she broke the law by selling those recordings to TMZ without his consent. As quoted from Newmediarights.org :

Are telephone calls confidential?
Telephone calls are confidential if the person reasonably expects privacy. For example, a call made from your house would be confidential. However, a cell phone conversation conducted while walking down a busy sidewalk is not confidential.

Can I share or publish my recordings with others?
Under California law, it is illegal to disclose any confidential information unlawfully obtained. Even if you do not disclose the recordings, you can still be liable for unlawfully obtaining the communications. You can disclose recordings you lawfully obtain.

I know that it won't get him his team back, but dragging this gold digger through the mud and suing her for the peanuts she's worth might be the start of repairing his image.

His image is irreparable. I really don't care what he does after his career as an owner is over. The only thing he has left to do with his life is die. At 80, I'm guessing that won't take long. He cares too much about his own personal wealth to do anything good with it.
We have already talked about the legality of this, so not getting into it again.

Sorry, I haven't really checked in since page 5. I'll have to do some reading later.

Well, he did donate large amounts of money to the NAACP, which was about to give him a lifetime achievement award. I find it ironic that a known racist was slated to get a prestigious NAACP award based on donations alone, but that's just the way things work I guess. The NAACP openly acknowledges this problem, though.

Source:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2014/05/01/NAACP-We-Ignored-Sterling-s-Racism-Because-of-Large-Donations

Tax write-offs. And I already shared my disgust with the NAACP.

He has cancer, apparently. Karma is a ***.