League:Fantrax 18 Team Dynasty, H2H (4C, 8W, 6D, 1G)
Cats:G, A, GWG, PPP, SHP, SOG, H+B, FOW, S, SV%, W, GAA
C: Backstrom,Giroux,MacKinnon,Seguin
W: D.Brown,Hartnell,Hossa,P.Kane
Kesler,Marleau,Perron,Zibanejad
D: Boyle,Del Zotto,Doughty,D.Hamilton,Hedman,Markov
G: Rinne
Bench: Braun,Comeau, Demers,DeHaan,Polak,Stempniak,Wingels --Fleury
Apparently he's getting the ban hammer from Seinfeld too.
http://video.adultswim.com/shorts/do...-seinfeld.html
Fantrax - Salary cap dynasty - cap hit - H2H each category
Start: 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 2UTIL, 2G, 6 Bench, 4IR
Cats: G, A, +/-, PIM, STG, STA, SOG, FOW, GWG, Hits, BLK, W, GAA, Saves, SV%, SO
C: Getzlaf, Turris, Eakin, ____
LW: Kunitz, MacArthur, Pacioretty, ____
RW: Little (C), Tarasenko, Eriksson (LW)
D: Pietrangelo, JJ, Streit, Brodie, Benn, ____
G: Lundqvist, Bishop, Holtby
Farm: Grigorenko, H Lindholm, Faksa, Collberg, Grimaldi, Lee, K Hayes, G Carey, Schmaltz
G: Grubauer, Gudlevskis
If the vote was public then yeah it would probably be unanimous because no owner is going to want to face the PR fallout from what would be perceived as endorsing the actions of Sterling. But it's not, it's going to be behind closed doors and they'll present their ultimate decision to the press as a united front. So now consider for a moment who owns NBA franchises....White dudes. Very rich, old, white dudes. Sure there are some young tech-boom guys like Cuban and that Pera kid and you've got MJ as the sole black man in the group but the overwhelming demographic is rich old white dudes. Wait, wasn't Donald Sterling a rich old white guy?! I'm willing to bet there's enough bigots in that pack to prevent such a vote and even without the bigots there will be several pragmatic businessmen that aren't going to like the idea of introducing a precedent that allows an asset worth close to a billion dollars to be sold out from underneath them. That's not gonna go over well, I promise.
You're right that it will ultimately probably not amount to much of anything, but it's hardly bluster or without substance. This is the kind of statement the league HAD to make. Anything less than this would have been perceived as complicit. The reality is that 80% of the NBA is made up of black players, as such the fan base is heavily skewed toward the black population. Consider a few numbers:
-blacks in the U.S. make up 12.6% of the population but they make up 45% of NBA viewership, that's HUGE!
-the NBA also has the lowest age demographic of all professional sports, 45% of them are under 35
So break this down to a simple economics exercise (which I promise you is the leading motivation for the NBA's statement). Do you want to risk immediately alienating 45% of your audience? Actually even more than that because the younger generation tends to much less tolerant of racism. And furthermore, that young demographic is the most coveted age range to market to because they have the disposable income to spend on jerseys, hats, tickets, etc. These are the last people you want to piss off if you want your league to continue to make you very rich.
Well, I inadvertantly called it - Sterling has cancer:
http://t.co/dbGm7PK9md
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