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NBA Playoffs report: San Antonio not surprisingly the favorite in the second round

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by David Zizmor

San Antonio vs. Portand: Portland was not the team that everyone expected it to be and made it to the second round but they had a very strong series against Houston with the Trailblazers point guard Damian Lillard right out of Oakland having a fantastic series and scoring the game winner with no time left to clinch it for Portland.

That might be the high point for the Trailblazers because Houston in round one are a good team, still the Rockets haven’t developed much of an identity and their not a team with a lot of playoff experience or success in the past. Portland and Houston as far as overall talent were fairly well matched.

San Antonio is a whole other ball game, as the Warriors learned last year you really need to stick the dagger in these guys because San Antonio will just not die. They are a fantastic team, they had a few short struggles with Dallas in the first round but San Antonio ended up winning that one like everybody expected them too.

Oklahoma City vs. LA Clippers: This is an evenly matched contest this is the two seed (Thunder) vs. the three seed (L.A.) you have the NBA MVP Kevin Durant going against one of the runners up Blake Griffin. You just have teams that are really strong from top to bottom. You have these two teams who have been there to a certain extent.

The Thunder made to the finals and they have a lot of success in the post season, they have all their players healthy which was not the case last year in the post season. Last season everybody thought Oklahoma City was the team to beat and then Russell Westbrook got injured.

The Westbrook injury didn’t stop the Thunder right away but it definitely slowed them up enough that they didn’t have the fire power when they had to face San Antonio. OKC their on a mission they had a rough opening series against Memphis. It’s not likely that L.A. is as tough as tough of an oppnent as Memphis is.

Miami vs. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Nets are an interesting team all year long and they got off to a really bad start back in November and December. They tried to turn it around since then and who knew what was going on. Brooklyn since the beginning of 2014 has done pretty good.

The Nets have been particularily good against Miami they were 4-0 in the regular season against the Heat, of course that meant nothing in the first game where Miami knocked them off and did a pretty solid job of putting the Nets in their place. Miami didn’t have to work that hard in the first round to beat the Bobcats.

That Charlotte series went as a sweep for Miami and they had a chance to rest and heal up and to give their crickety older players especially Dwayne Wade time to prepare themselves. Miami was chomping at the bit to get at Brooklyn. The one thing that Miami really got annoyed at Brooklyn and made it very well known they tanked a few of their final games so they could get a seed that would allow the Nets to face Miami in the second round rather than Indiana.

Indiana vs. Washington: Indiana is the number one seed and Washington is the number five, but if you look at how this post season has been going the Wizards are playing really well and the Pacers have been struggling. They barely made it out of the first round against Atlanta and the Hawks were a team that no body thought was a threat in any way shape or form.

Atlanta ended up forcing the Pacers to play seven games in the first round, let’s face it the Hawks are not a good team. They lost their best player Al Horford earlier this season and they have had good enough pieces to make themselves mediocre and in the Eastern Conference that’s good enough to make the eighth spot in the playoffs.

Atlanta was not a good team and if they were in the west they would have been far far out of the playoffs and Indiana looked completely befuddled at times and they look like they didn’t know what they were doing. The Hawks had some of the worst offense in the entire season in that game.

David Zizmor covers the NBA for Sportstalk radio

Feitelberg report: Neither SF mayor or Giants will come out to oppose prop B

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by Jerry Feitelberg

The politics of Proposition B in San Francisco is full of catch 22s, for one Mayor Ed Lee will not come out with a public endorsement for the measure that restricts height development along the waterfront because if he does he could offend such organizations like the San Francisco Giants who want to develop a urban village in Lot A of their parking lot which is situated next to the AT&T Park. We should mention the Giants have not endorsed the proposition one way or the other too.

If Lee comes out against the measure he would offend valuable voters who could use that against him in his next re-election bid for going in favor of waterfront development and going against protecting height development. The Giants have said they have not taken a postion on Prop B. Prop B, the Warriors never admitted specifically that Lee’s indecision on the measure was the reason to end their bid on trying to build at Piers 30-32.

Residents of the waterfront have made it clear that they don’t want to lose the bay views and the environment of what the waterfront now presents and they’ve got a good bead on things as voters signed ballots during the Warriors effort of getting an arena at Piers 30-32 and the minimum amount of ballots were met by almost double.

A victory of Prop B the city said would cost the city losses up to $1.6 billion in repairs to housing, transit and for a seawall that’s needs repair to hold back the bay. The Giants wanted to build on Lot A parking lot next to AT&T Park also with Pier 70 owned by Forest City a developer who wants to build condos and retail on that large location.

The Sierra Club who supports Prop B wants to see prop B contol growth at waterfront and Embarcadero to preserve the neighborhood for it’s future generations and that such growth on heights would Manhattonize the neighborhood with towering condos, retail, and luxury hotels. The waterfront neighbors do not oppose the Warriors new arena site development at Mission Bay.

Opponents against the measure say such projects would not only benefit the neighborhood but would provide more jobs and that private developers would spend $322 million to fix infrastruture.

The opponents of Prop B say the city would receive $93.6 million out of the $322 million that would fix the sea wall, transit and affordable housing and the Giants and Pier 70 would be able to move ahead with their development plans.

For Prop B to lose at this point those are long odds after the grass roots ballots that went to City Hall that showed the proponents of the measure have the support to get Prop B passed by a convincing proportion.

Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos who was opposed to constructing a new Warriors arena at Pier 30-32 and other height unlimited projects proposed for the waterfront. A condo measure for the waterfront back in November Propositions B and C called the 8 Washington lost, that made the odds for the Warriors arena or any other future developments dim and that San Francisco voters would more than likely vote down any development idea at the waterfront.

There’s little doubt in June voters will come out big for Prop B and that San Francisco voters will resoundly support Prop B for various reasons, to keep the views of the bay or that the voter just doesn’t trust the politicians and developers who some say plan to help the rich rather than the working people in the waterfront neighborhood, “I sleep better at night knowing the voters, rather than politicians and beuraucrats, have a final say on height limit waviers on port waterfront property,” said Agnos.

Jerry Feitelberg is covering the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings arena developments for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaurys News and Commentary: Racism in sports

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

LOS ANGELES–The LA Clippers advanced to the next round after eliminating the Warriors in a very emotional series at Oakland and in Los Angeles. Unfortunately this very good seven game series, won by the Clippers, was overshadowed by the now famous recording of the owner of the LA Clippers making some racist remarks.

BREAKING NEWS: And this is not CNN. There still racism in America and it is also living inside of our pro sports.

As a Hispanic-American I have experienced racism in the past, and those like me will understand it more than those that have not been discriminated.

As a man that was born in Cuba, who loves this country, my country, served in the US Army during the Vietnam years, and have been a proud citizen of the United States of America, and have a successful career in my line of work, I know that racism comes in many forms. But, whichever form it comes it is never good.

I feel sorry for the ignorant people that are racist, and they can be white, black, brown, yellow. Racism/Bigotry is not “owned”by any particular race. As a matter of fact, I have always said that considering that in our country there are more different races than any other country in the world, we still get along very well. Main reason? We are a country of laws.

I never met the owner of the LA Clippers, and as a Christian, I do not make an opinion of somebody I do not know. If he is a racist, that is not enough of a “crime”to force him to sell his team. And I still do not know(I am not an attorney)how can they force somebody to sell his/her team, because of a racist remark, in a country that respects free enterprise and private ownership.

A couple of years ago, Ozzie Guillen was the manager of the Miami Marlins and he made a remark to a magazine, saying: ” I like Fidel Castro”. As a Cuban-American sports journalist-broadcaster, I was interviewed by the USA Today, on the Ozzie Guillen situation then. I said to the newspaper -quote- “I believe in free speech, that is one of the reasons I left a communist country, Cuba, to come and live here, and as much as I disagree with what Guillen said, he has the right to say what he wants, this is America”.

To say “I love Castro”in Miami, is something very stupid, but it is not a crime. That year Ozzie’s team also finished last, and Ozzie was fired. I always liked Ozzie, interviewed him many times, when he was a player, a very good shortstop, and also when he as a manager with Chicago and Miami.

To this day, Ozzie Guillen is the only Major League Baseball manager, born in Latinamerica that has won a World Series.

People in powerful positions say many things to many people, however, racism (in my opinion)is something that is in somebody’s heart, it is not something that you wake up one morning and all-of-a-sudden you are a bigot.

This case of the owner of the Clippers and the other people involved is becoming a circus, all-of-a-sudden, a team that not long ago was great material for late night comedians, because they were the epitome of a losing franchise(at least in the court, not necessarily in the business side)now there is a long line of people that want to buy the LA Clippers, from Oprah and Magic Johnson, to Oscar de la Hoya. Some of Los Angeles’ best soap opera’s have not been produced in Hollywood studios, but(like the OJ case)in real life courts of justice.

I am afraid this one is also heading there.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish TV voice for Angels baseball and does News and Commentary each week for

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Warriors lose to Clippers, go home

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By George Devine, Sr.

The Golden State Warriors took the first round of the NBA playoffs as far as they could, playing the underdog throughout seven games and making it count until the end. But when the final buzzer sounded, the Los Angeles Clippers won the best-of-seven series Tonight’s determining game at Staples Center in Los Angeles was close much of the time, and Golden State led by 8 at the half. The final score of 126-121 in the Clippers’ favor sends them to the next round and sends the Warriors back to Oakland to deal with speculation and rumors concerning the future of head coach Mark Jackson.

In a way, the back story for the series was written before it began, once it became clear that center Andrew Bogut would be out for the duration. This enabled the opposition — in this case the Clippers — to score in the paint to a higher degree than Golden State did, given the determining factor of Bogut’s defensive ability. In tonight’s game, Los Angeles outscored the visitors from inside by 62-38, and that told the tale of the showdown.

Warriors center Jermaine O’Neal was unable to be of great help. He underwent an MRI on Friday that revealed a bone bruise of his right knee cap. He was listed as questionable for Game 7 and played for only 2:55. He was thus unable to fill in for Bogut on preventing field goals, and only scored one of his own, out of two attempts. He suffered the injury at the 9:39 mark in the second quarter of the previous game at Oracle Arena in Oakland.

Most of the Warriors’ starters played for the bulk of the game. Stephen Curry was in for 45:50 and had 33 points, going 16-16 from the charity stripe. He also contributed 9 assists. Draymond Green played for 39:41, pouring in 24 points and contributing 7 rebounds. Klay Thompson was good for 38:51, scoring 13 poiints and making an equal number of rebounds. Jordan Crawford scored 12 points.

For Los Angeles, Blake Griffin was the key player. He scored 24 points and contributed 6 assists in 42;10. His ability to draw fouls and make the subsequent free throws made the difference in the final score. DeAndre Jordan was in for 41:21, scored 15 points and had 18 boards. Chris Paul played 42;06, scored 22 points and had 14 assists.

Kings arena downtown: Blue prints not complete for new arena plans vote on hold at Sac City Hall

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by Jerry Feitelberg

The Sacramento City Council whose planned vote on the new arena will be put on hold as it was scheduled to be voted on May 13th. Details of the new arena plan were not finalized and won’t be ready by the 13th. Without such documents of the plan the city council will have to wait to vote on the plan.

It was however assured that the Kings and developers will have a plan in place in the very near future perhaps as soon as late May or early June. With such an enormous project in hand the final touches of the designs and doucments of the plan are still in the process of being matched up with the foot print of the new arena site at downtown plaza.

The city proposed $225 million subsidy is being detailed under the watchful eye of the Kings ownership and city officials as they’re looking at everything from the windows of the arena to the planned entertainment grounds and surrounding areas outside of the building. The Kings have assured the city council that the delay will not disrupt the October 2016 finish date.

“The definitive agreements are in the last stages of completion and will be finalized soon” the city said. The contract requirement is $1 million and had to be completed according to the city ten days in advance of the crucial May 13 city council vote and the agreement was not ready yet because the Kings were still working on some details of the agreement.

“There are a lot of documents, a lot of comprehensive documents, they all have to work together. It’s going to take a little more time.” said Sacramento Assistant Manager John Dangberg. Kings president Chris Granger said the deal is about 99.9 percent done. The Kings will be contributing $222 million and the City is in for $255 for a total of $477 million on the project.

Jerry Feitelberg is covering the arena developments for the Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Warriors Playoff commentary: Clippers owner most likely will litigate lifetime ban

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by David Zizmor

LOS ANGELES–It’s most likely the NBA owners will vote to have Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling banned for the league for life and force him to sell the franchise. There is no question about that, Sterling he got caught red handed and there’s not much he could do about it.

Even in some of the statements from the last week he knows that he’s been caught, the most recent comment from Sterling was that he wished that he paid the woman (V.Stiviano) off. No one knows whether that means she was trying to black mail him with the recordings of him that she released.

Sterling is not denying what was in those recordings he’s admitting everyting that was said all those racist comments were his and that he essentially believed them and he hasn’t made any excuses about them. This is the thing Sterling has been a lousy owner for three decades, the racism is part of it also he’s been charged in the past with sexism.

Then there’s him being a bad owner it’s not him just being sexist, racist, he’s just an awful owner and an awful person by all accounts. This is a guy who when the Clippers season would end in early April every year because they never made the playoffs would fire his entire front office sales staff because he didn’t want to pay them for the four or five months until October until the season started again.

Sterling didn’t care that they needed to make ends meet, that they needed to pay their bills and the Clippers should have had people selling themselves to help make money for the team. This is a bad business practice that turned stupid. Were talking aobut a person who doesn’t care about other people beyond himself.

There was another story that another employee in the Clippers front office was suffering from cancer and needed a serious operation to get it taken care of except Sterling didn’t offer a health care plan and this man’s cancer treatment was not covered by whatever Sterling was offering.

Further Sterling wouldn’t give him anything so he could be treated and fortunately the players on the Clippers were quite generous and chipped in about $120,000 for this man to get his cancer treatment. This is Sterling people, this is a guy who wouldn’t even help one of his employees get treated for cancer. Ironically Sterling said he had prostate cancer himself this past week.

Daivd Zizmor covers the NBA for Sportsralk radio

Warriors Playoff commentary: Oprah, Geffen, and Ellison line up to buy the Clippers;Magic expected to throw his hat in the ring

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by David Zizmor

OAKLAND–The stars are getting aligned already and you know how it is in Los Angeles as the immediate lifetime suspension of L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his being forced to sell his ball club has the likes of former TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey, record producer David Geffen and Oracle’s Larry Ellison are ready to get the checkbook out and would like to buy the Clippers once they go up for sale. The former talk show gab host Oprah will be an investor and the club will be ran by Geffen and Ellis.

Winfrey spokeswoman Nicole Nicols confirmed the report and said that Oprah was interested in the club as soon as she found out that the NBA was forcing Sterling out. Oprah’s representitives contacted the league office and also confirmerd the story with CBS.

If the sale is successful it would be Ellison’s second shot at trying to be an owner of an NBA team. Ellison tried to get on with the Golden State Warriors which boiled down to a bidding war with Warriors current owners Joe Lacob and Peter Gruber who won the bid for. Ellison is in good company this time in trying to buy the $1 billion plus basketball team with Oprah and Geffen. Ellison might have competition one more time as Magic Johnson is trying to put a group together a group and throw his hat into the ring in trying to buy the club. Magic is co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The strange thing about the Sterling story is when I first wrote about this last week on Saturday morning this was just bubbling up and it certainly seemed like a big deal at the time but who knew how big of a story this was going to be, Sterling who is a real estate businessman, a former injury attorney, and now former owner of the Clippers. When the story first broke it was big but there was no idea at the time that this story was going to explode world wide like it did with President Barack Obama commenting on it from Kuala Laumpar.

Now this story grew and it was on every major TV network for the last five days and with Sterling in an interview with reporter Jim Gray telling Gray that he’s not selling the club this could turn into a real war between the NBA and Sterling as Sterling plans to fight the NBA in court. It’s just strange that there was nothing more on the news cycle that was more important as this story dominated the news for the last week.

Sterling also was involved in settling out the largest discrimination suit in U.S. history in 2009, in 2006 that case started. Also there were other cases involving Sterling regarding sexual harassment and discrimination over the years. This was adding up since 2006 with these dicrimination cases over the years and this part of Sterling is really to no one surprise.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson had been active back when he was a player with the players union and Johnson was a player more than a decade ago. Johnson the current mayor of Sacramento is obviously a politician and obviously has symphathy with the players union. Some say Johnson has a bigger role than the mayoralship he may have higher political ambitions than the mayorship after he finishes in Sacramento.

He might be a little cynical and say this is a launching point to get bigger publicity that covers more than just the state of California that remains to be seen. Johnson was contacted by the Los Angeles Clippers and union president Chris Paul partly becuase of Johnson’s experience in the player’s union. Johnson responded by being the public face for the union and part of this is because the union and the NBA does not have a current president.

There is a player president and that’s Paul but there is not an official player representative, there used to be an NBA president and that was Billy Hunter but he got fired following the last collective bargaining agreement because the agreement was so bad for the players. So with Hunter gone there is no one representing the players so Johnson was asked to step in.

David Zizmor covers the NBA for Sportstalk radio

Warriors trail Clippers in series, 3-2

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By George Devine, Sr.

Tonight’s game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Golden State Warriors actually began when NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced that Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling was banned from the Association for life and would have to pay $2.5 million in fines. This came after a league investigation determined that Sterling indeed made racist comments recorded by a woman described as his girlfriend. With this morning’s press conference the Clippers were free to return to the series, tied at 2-2, without a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the team and the league as a whole.

Pretty much unencumbered by the recent controversy, the Clippers won by a 113-103 margin, gaining a 3-2 edge in the best-of-seven series. An advantage for them was the obvious enthusiasm of the hometown crowd at Staples Center in downtown L.A., sharing in the relief brought by a resolution of the Sterling situation. The outcome could have been very different: prior to the morning’s announcement by the commissioner, there were rumblings about players boycotting and fans turning their backs on the game. It didn’t happen, after the prompt action of the league.

At times, the game was closer than indicated by the final score. In the second period Golden State outscored Los Angeles 29-24. In the third, the teams tied at 22, and late in the frame a 3-pointer by Steph Curry gave the Warriors a short-lived lead, 70-69. But the persistence of the home team prevailed as Deandre Jordan led the attack with 25 points, 18 rebounds and 4 blocks. Chris Paul scored 20 and had 5 steals. Blake Griffin scored 18 and Darren Collison 15.

For the Warriors, three of the starters played for most of the game: Andre Iguodala played for 42:21, notching 18 points and 8 assists; Klay Thompson for 44:46 with 21 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists; Curry for 43:42 with 17 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists. David Lee scored 18, had 10 boards and 4 assists. Draymond Green had 10 points and 11 rebounds. Green, Lee and Thompson were all in foul trouble with 5 apiece.

The next game in the series is at Los Angeles, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. PDT on Thursday, May 1.

Note: When the Giants’ game against the San Diego Padres ended at AT&T Park, a goodly portion of the 40,000+ in attendance stayed in the ballpark to watch the conclusion of the game from Staples on the stadium JumboTron.

The Feitelberg Report: NBA Commissioner shuts door on Sterling with lifetime ban and $2.5 M fine

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by Jerry Feitelberg

The NBA and its commissioner Adam Silver moved very swiftly to end Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling his ownership of the club. The NBA banned him for life and he cannot attend any games or be around the Clippers’ offices or practice facilities and cannot attend any Board of Governors meetings. In short, he is through and the NBA imposed a 2.5 million dollar fine.

What Sterling said was totally inappropriate and we live in the 21st century. Black athletes have come a long way since 1947 when Jackie Robinson broke the color line for baseball and , in effect, all sports. Many of us remember the days when black athletes had to play in segregated leagues. Satchell Paige, Willie Mays. Hank Aaron all played in the Negro Leagues. The only job that black basketball players could get was to play with the Harlem Globetrotters. Black athletes have shown the world that they can compete and win at the highest level of any sport.

In the mid 50’s the Boston Celtics started to bring in black players. Bill Russell was the most notable but he was followed by Sam Jones and K.C. Jones. NYU’s Tom Sanders became an important piece of the great run of championships that the Celtics enjoyed in the 50’s and 60’s. I believe the Celtics were the first team to utilize five black players on the court at the same time. The University of Texas at El Paso won an NCAA championship with all black players.

Other great black players include Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Magic Johnson, James Worthy and the list goes on and on.

Most owners want to get the best players because winning is what counts in pro sports. Winning improves attendance. When you sell your product to the people there is no room for racism. People of all ethnic backgrounds are entitled to buy a ticket and watch the product on the court. When your team goes on a run, fans generally high five the people sitting round them without regard to race or ethnic background.

There is no room in sports for an owner like Donald Sterling. He will, unfortunately,

profit handsomely when his team is sold. Sterling can run his real estate business

until he dies but the NBA and all other pro sports teams do not need him or anyone else that thinks like him.

Jerry Feitelberg is a talk show host on http://www.sportsradioservice.com

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That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: Commissioner can’t force Sterling to sell his team but big announcement coming Tuesday

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

LOS ANGELES–There are two things going on here there’s a parallel between the NBA and Major League Baseball when the MLB Commissioner found out that baseball players were using steroids and that certain players were hitting 60-70 home runs a year and that former Clipper General Manager Elgin Baylor took Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to court and claimed about discrimination by the Clippers and Sterling these were the start of huge investigations to held by each respective league.

People shouldn’t be surprised about this and Sterling who bought the Clippers in 1981 moved them from San Diego to Los Angeles in 1984. When he bought the team and he’s a great businessman he was what they call an ambulance chaser Sterling was a young Jewish attorney and now he’s 80 years old. Sterling made a lot of money and he bought that team for $12 million.

There is also another recording that is expected to be submitted that lasts about an hour long of more racial type ranting by Sterling as he was talking to V.Stiviano Sterling’s girlfriend according to Stiviano attorney Mac E Nehoray. Multi-billionaire Donald Trump said that Sterling was set up by the girlfriend releasing the recordings with another expected recording to be released again.

As a franchise the Clippers are worth over a half a billion dollars and Sterling himself is worth close to $2 billion in real estate. Legally speaking the Commisioner of the NBA Adam Silver can’t force Sterling to sell the team but there is a lot of pressure against Sterling to step down and that might be the case in Silver’s announcement on Tuesday.

In a free enterprise socitey like the United States you can’t legally force Sterling to sell his team because he is seen as a bigot and maybe some of the other owners could be bigots but they don’t go out and say it. Sterling’s girlfriend appears to have set up Sterling and Stiviano has been named in an embezzlement law suit for $1.8 million filed by the Sterling family. Stiviano has said that the cars and other items that she obtained from Sterling in the relationship were gifts and not from embezzling.

This is just the beginning this is going to open up a can of worms here, now Larry Johnson of the New York Knicks said that he’s calling for an all black league. Now that is racism by itself. You mean to say that you have a player from Lithuania who is white and he’s a great player like a Vladi Divak and he can play in the NBA and you can’t let him play. You can’t have an all black league that would be racist.

Your opening racism here too, these ideas are just bad for everybody, what the league is going to do on Tuesday when Silver makes an announcement on Sterling is fine Sterling $1 million. A million dollars to Sterling is like to the average man going to McDonalds and ordering a Big Mac for $6.50. That’s not going to hurt him.

You can not force Sterling to sell the team, he hans’t committed a felony, you can’t put people in jail because their racist, unless they threaten somebody, kill somebody, so the league is going to fine him and he’s 80 years old and he might be very close to being senile if he isn’t already. I hate to be a cynical but the man is one of the richest guys in the country and all they can do is fine him. He’s losing advertising and the fans may stop buying tickets that could hurt him.

One way or the other Donald Sterling will end up having to leave the L.A. Clippers as owner but it will have to be on his own volition.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the former Spanish TV play by play announcer for the L.A. Clippers and does News and Commentary for Sportstalk radio