thereof about people he has around him like v. stiviano who will record him. so, that doesn t speak highly of donald sterling that he allowed someone into his life and into his home who recorded him and then released a tape. there s so much more that he s a loyal member, they damaged his reputation. donald sterling damaged his own reputation by coming on television and saying what he said. he wants to be vindicated. if he wants to be listen, i m all about forgiving people, all right? i m a believer in a higher power. i forgive you. but if you want to be vindicated, go back and look at the tapes, go back and look at what you said beyond the tape that was released to the public that you believe was released illegally. i just think it was ridiculous. i really want to talk about when he talks about he s had several head coaches and general managers and all of that and really helped the african-american community, elgin baylor sued him, elgin baylor said he had a
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including larry ellison, oprah winfrey, and others. the goal is for some sort of sale agreement for the clippers to be done before tuesday. so a scheduled nba owners vote to kick sterling out would not be necessary. if the sale didn t go through then it s not the sterlings controlling the sale. anybody with any property would argue that they have the best potential outcomes if they are the ones controlling the sale. and this sale will inevitably shatters records no matter when and how it happens. the last team sold was the milwaukee bucks. the sale of the l.a. clippers shaping up to be maybe three or four times that amount. is the nba saying anything about a potential donald sterling lawsuit against the nba or are they saying anything about the bidding war going on? we have asked and we ve gotten no response from the nba so far to the possible lawsuit. the nba is also not commenting
shelly sterling and the nba find a buyer that they think is a a good one. the nba says, you know, we re going to drop these charges and thank donald sterling for his good work and his charitable work and $2.5 million goes to some charity everybody agrees on. how abo how about that? it all happens simultaneously. first, i ve heard about it on television. i m asking. i d have to tune in and find out i have to tune in to cnn and find out what the n barksba thinking because they don t talk to me. the answer, i don t think the three-point program you laid out is acceptable to mr. sterling. he has his own ideas. i don t want to try to communicate a settlement offer on television. that s not the way it s done. the way it should be done is to say, look, there may be a way we can resolve this, let s postpone this meeting two weeks or four weeks or whatever and sit around and see if he can come up with something. i don t know that that will work, but that s the right way
play for donald sterling. isn t that precisely the kind of loss that article 13 of the constitution of the nba is the basis for taking away a team? it probably is. but let me tell you, mr. sterling has been thrown out of his office. he s had no contact with the sponsors. he doesn t know the allegations of the sponsors. and if you think most of the players are going to give up 2, 5, $10 million because of mr. sterling s remarks made in 2013 and stop playing, i think you ve got another guess coming. i think it s an idle threat. so what you re saying, those sponsors only came back when the nba said they were going to take away the franchise. if donald sterling is there, the nba loses money. and isn t that a good basis to take away a team? but they only left because