Tuesday, April 29, 2014

My take on Adam Silver's discipline for Donald Sterling

As we all know, earlier this afternoon, new NBA commissioner Adam Silver threw the hammer on Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling by not only fining him 2.5 million bucks but banning him from the league for life. I absolutely agree with his decision to do so and it was absolutely the correct thing to do. Just imagine if he did not banned, head coach Doc Rivers and star players Chris Paul and Blake Griffin would probably just walk away from the franchise. Silver's next step is to get the other twenty-nine owners to get a poll together to determine whether he's forced to sell the franchise or not. Seventy-five percent of the twenty-nine owners need to vote for Sterling to sell in order for it to work. I believe more of the seventy-five percent will vote for Sterling to sell the team and rightfully so. This is a sign that this league is heading in the right direction under Silver as commissioner. Another thought going into this was, what would former commissioner David Stern do about this situation? We obviously have no clue about what Stern would've done since he is no longer the commissioner. It seems like people around the association are thrilled and agree that Silver showed leadership on the podium and handled the situation very well. This was a defining moment in NBA history for sure and I am interested to see how the Clippers play and how their fans react tonight for their game 5 in their 2-2 tied series against the Golden State Warriors.

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