I am not going to defend what Donald Sterling said on the infamous TMZ tapes, because his statements were indefensible. I hate racism. I hate intolerance. And if one of my friends said the types of things that Donald Sterling said, that person wouldn’t be my friend for long. But I am a journalist by trade, and all journalists are taught to look at BOTH sides of a story. So what about Donald Sterling? Was he railroaded? Was this a set-up aimed at
Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet’s two-day NBA playoff fantasy leagues Well, so much for yesterday’s theory — that the Clippers would be so wiped out from the Donald Sterling scandal, it would be a good night to go hard on the Warriors. But I am getting smarter as I move through my second week of fantasy writing (don’t ask). Understanding that my predictions are sometimes light years off, I fielded a hedge team in
Banned for life. And the NBA will try to make Donald Sterling sell the Los Angeles Clippers. Can’t have a much harsher penalty than that, eh? As I was await the inevitable response from the Clippers organization, I fully expected owner Donald Sterling to go to court and sue the NBA, probably asking for a temporary restraining order that would allow him to continue operating the team — and attending their games. But when the Clippers released a statement, it was of the
Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet’s two-day NBA playoff fantasy leagues The Los Angeles Clippers weren’t mentally prepared for Game 4 of their first-round series against the Golden State Warriors, and it showed in their inattentiveness to defense in the first quarter. Will we see more of the same tonight in Game 5? That is my expectation, and I am going to try to use the Donald Sterling controversy to my advantage in the DraftStreet
When you spend your life around the NBA, you get a skewed vision of racial harmony. Black players get along with white players, international players intermingle with American players, and the melting pot fosters racial tolerance and harmony. As many have said over the past few days, there is no room for racism in the NBA. And by and large, there isn’t much racism in the league. The culture is so harmonious, in fact, that it can make folks in the
I have already chimed in with my knee-jerk reaction to Adam Silver’s press conference performance Saturday night. I gave him an ‘F’ — and I stand behind that grade. Let’s face it — David Stern spoiled us. When a crisis hit the Association under Stern’s reign, Mount David erupted when Stern decided it was time to go volcanic. Silver? Let’s put it this way: He couldn’t have done a better job Saturday night of showing everyone exactly how much he is not a carbon
Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet’s two-day NBA playoff fantasy leagues I don’t imagine Donald Sterling will be in attendance tomorrow night when the Clippers and Warriors play Game 5, and I expect Sterling’s team will put up a much better fight than they did Sunday in Oakland. But you know what else? I think the Clippers are finished mentally as a result of the Sterling scandal, and I am using that theory as
Click on this banner to sign up for DraftStreet’s two-day NBA playoff fantasy leagues OK, so I have now learned my lesson about keying all of my fantasy teams to one player. And unless that player goes off like LaMarcus Aldridge, it is a risky proposition. I put Luis Scola on all of my teams Saturday in DraftStreet’s two-day fantasy contests, believing that Pacers coach Frank Vogel would utilize the Argentinian forward/center in place of the ineffective Roy