>>>Great decision by Adam Silver today in the Donald Sterling situation.
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>>I agree. I'd also like to see real punishment for the person who illegally taped him.
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>>Good piece: http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/
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>Taping: in addition to possible criminal charges the taper will likely face civil actions. Lots of money at stake, lawyers will get inventive e.g. recovery of 2.5M fine, recovery of difference between forced team sale price and sale price on the open market etc.
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>It's interesting that the US Government can't prosecute or fine Sterling for his opinions and speech, but the NBA can. He must have signed some waiver when he bought the team. Sports team owners tend to have large egos and strong opinions, it's interesting they would do something like that.

What a lot of people forget is that the First Amendment says the government can't punish you for what you say, but it doesn't say there are no consequences. Just shared this elsewhere last week: http://xkcd.com/1357/

Tamar