wakeflood
This guys needs to be punished in what is essentially the only way he’ll understand – economically.
The NBA is a collective and has limited options to force this guy to leave the collective – ie. sell the team. They can make him persona non grata in many ways which will be ego damaging but not necessarily hit him in the pocketbook.
So, they’ll fine him a million bucks or something and bar him from attending games for a year but his asset will remain intact unless he feels like he wants to cash it in. And even though the league will lean on him, he won’t have to sell. And a big part of that is that NO ONE wants to sell their NBA teams at this juncture. Even the lowliest franchises have exploding valuations based on their players contracts and tv money.
I’d bet you lunch today that Hansen/Ballmer have already contacted Sterling and offered him close to a billion dollars for his franchise. And he’s probably turned them down without even crunching the numbers.