NBAs Adam Silver needs to give Robert Sarver and Neil Olshey Donald Sterling treatment

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Mark Cuban saw it. Adam Silver didn’t.

In 2014, Silver was just three months into his tenure as NBA Commissioner when he banned Donald Sterling from the NBA for life and fined him $ 2.5 million for racist comments he made to his girlfriend.

A line was drawn in the sand as Silver put the league on alert. And while the move is necessary, it means Silver has set high expectations for himself and the league unaware that Sterling is far from the only bad apple in the group. That, ironically, is something the Cuban knows.

Again, there is no reason for his positions, Cuban said of Sterling at the time. There was no reason for what he said. There is no reason for anyone to support racism. There’s no place for it in our league, but there’s a very, very, very slippery slope.

By many, the NBA is viewed as the good league. Unlike the NFL and Major League Baseball, it doesn’t constantly find itself in racial or misogynistic scandals that degrade a large portion of their workforce and fanbase. But just because you didn’t shoot yourself in the foot doesn’t mean you should be allowed to hold a gun. In just one week, the NBA was hit by allegations against front offices in Phoenix and Portland, and now everyone is focused on Silver.

The league officially launched an investigation into the Suns after last week’s ESPN report, which included more than 70 former and current employees detailing how working for team owner Robert Sarver was a living nightmare.

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The level of misogyny and racism is beyond pale, a Suns co-owner told ESPN about Sarver. Embarrassing as an owner.

It was so bad that Suns minority owner Jahm Najafi showed up at the game on Saturday with Colin Kaepernick as a pseudo-protest against Sarver, as Najafi told the public that the behavior was unacceptable. Sarvers and did not sign a statement in support of him.

If Sterling was the first, Sarver was the inevitable other shoe that finally fell off. A few days later, a third shoe fell proving that misconduct within NBA front offices was an octopus of misconduct.

While we cannot comment on this pending matter, we are committed to continuing to build an organization that positively impacts our colleagues, community and the world in which we live and play, says a statement from the Portland Trail Blazers, as the team and their owner. launched an investigation into basketball operations president and general manager Neil Olshey who allegedly created a toxic workplace environment full of bullying and intimidation.

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— Portland Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) November 6, 2021

The NFL has Daniel Snyder in Washington, the McNair family in Houston, and Mark Davis in Las Vegas. And despite all that, the powerful white men in Phoenix and Portland are too proud to think they will be a similar nuisance for their league while refusing to learn from the mistakes of their NFL teammates.

Its boss problem 101 It will never happen to me!

Silver has made a name for himself in how he handled Sterling’s situation, and despite all the things the NBA has gone through since he took over, especially in recent years, (the bubble, the losses by David Stern and Kobe Bryant, and Daryl Moreys tweet) hes still dealing with the same issues he was seven years ago. And while the allegations in Phoenix and Portland may be different, they don’t live in a vacuum, as they both took place under Silvers ’rule in a society that expects more accountability.

The ball is literally on Adam Silvers ’court, while waiting to see what the hell will do next. He fights Olshey, because he can let the Portlands ownership do the dirty work for him. But, even then, hell still has a remnant on his hands Neil Olshey who used to work for Donald Sterling.

Intolerances tentacle run deep.

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