The following are my posts on Google+, soon after TMZ released an audio-recorded conversation between Donald Sterling and V. Stiviano at the end of April:
As scores of us were shocked and disgusted with what Sterling said, Sacramento Mayor and NBA great Kevin Johnson cautioned us to
hold judgment (i.e., until the NBA could finish its investigation) but acknowledged the challenge of doing so in a situation that
demanded judgment.
Donald Sterling is clearly the lightning rod now for whatever prejudice, big or small, each of us may harbor.
There is deep jealousy mixed in with the ugly racism here. But this conversation sounds like a setup: Either she is clueless about that jealousy, or just baiting his racism to the surface.
#Clippers: from $12.5 million (Sterling's purchase cost), to nearly $1 billion (estimated value). That's three decades of super-profitable incompetence!
Sterling clearly harbored malicious attitudes and apparently discriminated against minorities for a long time. But I don't know think he was at all incompetent. He under invested in the Clippers for years, and let team performance languish as a consequence, but as my friend and I acknowledged: He's a sly fox and a cunning businessman.
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