NBA Safe for Marketers Again as Silver Drops Hammer on Clippers Owner
Posted in: UncategorizedThe National Basketball Association suspended Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fined him
$2.5 million for making racist remarks. The move came after nationwide outrage — and a couple of days of marketers abandoning the basketball team during the midst of a playoff series.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, speaking at a news conference in New York, also said that he would urge the NBA board of governors to force a sale of the team. A three-quarters vote of the 30 members would be necessary to force a sale, and Mr. Silver said he expects to get that.
“The views expressed by Mr. Sterling are deeply offensive and harmful,” Mr. Silver said. “That they came from an NBA owner only heightens the damage and my personal outrage.”
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