{"id":20080,"date":"2014-04-26T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=20080"},"modified":"2014-04-26T16:40:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T21:40:43","slug":"donald-sterling-nba-owner-racist-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=20080","title":{"rendered":"Donald Sterling: NBA Owner, Racist, Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you follow the NBA, you may be unaware that owner Donald Sterling&#8217;s Los Angeles Clippers were, until very recently, regarded as one of the worst-run franchise&#8217;s in the league. Between moving to Los Angeles in 1983 and 2010, they only had <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.yahoo.com\/the-los-angeles-clippers-4-decades-futility-7072108.html\">two winning seasons<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Clippers have recently been on the upswing, having drafted one All Star (Blake Griffin) and traded for another one (Chris Paul), that Sterling wisely let <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/markheisler\/2014\/04\/17\/the-l-a-clipper-miracle-next-democracy-breaks-out-in-russia\/\">have more input in composing and running the team<\/a>. The input Sterling has on running the team, the better they tended to do. So the Clippers are in the playoffs in the powerhouse NBA West. Things were looking up. <\/p>\n<p>Well they were, until Sterling was recorded as telling his hot young girlfriend that <a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/2042520-donald-sterling-caught-on-tape-making-racist-remarks-to-girlfriend?utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=programming-national\">he doesn&#8217;t want her seen in public with black people<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It takes an extra-special brand of stupid for a man who owns a team in a league with predominately black players, with one and half black superstars on his team (Griffin is half-black, half-leprechaun) and a black coach (Doc Rivers) to be caught saying he doesn&#8217;t like black people. It&#8217;s tantamount to declaring &#8220;I never want to have another big name NBA free agent come to my team ever again!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Now, as for why I&#8217;m blogging it here: Though Sterling hasn&#8217;t been active giving campaign donations recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/indivs\/search.php?name=Sterling%2C+Donald&#038;state=CA&#038;zip=&#038;employ=&#038;cand=&#038;old=Y&#038;sort=N&#038;capcode=ch563&#038;submit=Submit+your+Donor+Query\">guess which political party to which all the candidates receiving his donations belonged<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Go ahea(D). Guess.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>STERLING, DONALD BEVERLY HILLS,CA 90210\tBEVERLY HILLS PROPERTIES\t11\/30\/89\t$1,000\tBradley, Bill (D)<br \/>\nSTERLING, DONALD BEVERLY HILLS,CA 90210\tBEVERLY HILLS PROPERTIES\t11\/30\/89\t$1,000\tBradley, Bill (D)<br \/>\nSTERLING, DONALD BEVERLY HILLS,CA 90212\t \t9\/27\/91\t$1,000\tDavis, Gray (D)<br \/>\nSTERLING, DONALD MR BEVERLY HILLS,CA 90212\tREAL ESTATE DEVELOPER\t9\/9\/91\t$1,000\tLeahy, Patrick (D)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing the NBA will give him a token fine, but little more. One dumbass owner makes it just a little easier for all the other teams&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you follow the NBA, you may be unaware that owner Donald Sterling&#8217;s Los Angeles Clippers were, until very recently, regarded as one of the worst-run franchise&#8217;s in the league. Between moving to Los Angeles in 1983 and 2010, they only had two winning seasons. The Clippers have recently been on the upswing, having drafted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":27,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2864,2310,1037,2293],"class_list":["post-20080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","tag-democrats","tag-donald-sterling","tag-liberal-racism","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20080"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20101,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions\/20101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}