It's a slippery slope to just unfranchise the guy over a private conversation. Especially in light of the fact that the outward public knowledge was always there and everyone sat by doing nothing. I mean, we all hope jerks like Sterling get their day, but we're becoming the jerks ourselves for doing it.
I am wary of thought police, judges and executioners, but I won't front and deny that I enjoyed that. Despite my schadenfreude, I'm not buying this NBA hypocrisy for a second (Donald Sterling was a well-documented racist scumbag for decades prior to four days ago, this is all about money, pr and embarrassment.)
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