If you can stop with the insults and just focus for one second on the task at hand, we may get somewhere.
The Sterling's were forced to sell due to a court order issued last week true or false? Easy question and feel free to cite any sources that show the NBA and not a court of law forced him to sell.
You're into proof, this should be a slam dunk (no pun intended) for you.
No, the Sterling's were forced to sell by a deadline the NBA set. Donald gave authority to his wife, who then expedited the sale and sold the team before the forced NBA deadline. Donald went batshit crazy and decided that he doesn't want his wife to sell the team.
The judge simply told Donald that the forced sale by the NBA that prompted Shelly to sell was legit. To say the Sterlings weren't forced to sell the team by the NBA is probably one of the dumbest statements you can make. The NBA played hardball and beat the shit out of Donald. Now they are even counter-suing him for wasting their time. The NBA is much more powerful than Donald. Which you guys didn't comprehend.
That his first post on this was ultimately correct? Of course I believe it. It's true. Which of these 2 first posts on the topic wound up being true, his or yours?
"This won't take long at all. He will not be the owner of the Clippers by next season."
or
"This will take years to play out."
Since we now Finally know the result we know which one was correct. All the other BS that came after is just that, BS. He gave and he got in the thread. He brought alot of it on himself with his style but Bottom Line, he was right. I know you're an honest enough guy to at least acknowledge that much.
But what do we know anyway?
"Steve Ballmer's bid to purchase the Clippers closed Tuesday after the entry of an order by a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling to sell the team on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, the league announced."
"Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO, bid $2 billion for the Clippers in May but wasn't able to complete the sale until Tuesday's written court order affirmed Shelly Sterling's authority to sell the franchise without the consent of her husband, Donald Sterling."
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/...mer-officially-new-owner-los-angeles-clippers
"Steve Ballmer's bid to purchase the Clippers closed Tuesday after the entry of an order by a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling to sell the team on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, the league announced."
"Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO, bid $2 billion for the Clippers in May but wasn't able to complete the sale until Tuesday's written court order affirmed Shelly Sterling's authority to sell the franchise without the consent of her husband, Donald Sterling."
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/...mer-officially-new-owner-los-angeles-clippers
The sale completion comes two weeks after Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas ruled in an often contentious probate court case that Shelly Sterling, the wife of the longtime Clippers owner, had acted in accordance with the terms of the family trust in working to sell the team without her husband's consent after neurologists had declared him "mentally incapacitated." Levanas confirmed Shelly Sterling's authority to sell the team in an order entered Tuesday, according to Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times, and that was all Ballmer needed; his attorney told Fenno that the sale was completed mere minutes thereafter, with what ESPN.com's Shelburne reports was a ho-hum wire transfer of $2 billion. (Must be nice.)
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...sterling--at-long-last--is-out-183948870.html
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...sterling--at-long-last--is-out-183948870.html
Enfuego, it's actually much more definitive than that. The probate court ruling that enabled Shelly to sell was not the significant ruling. It was "probate law" that enabled the sale without challenge from potential beneficiaries in order to protect the value of an estate / trust that pushed this latest transaction through. The NBA had nothing to do with it, it was all about a 2 billion dollar offer on the table that may not be there if the case drags on.
Just the suggestion that the NBA forced a sale for 2 billion dollars or about 4x the FMV (give or take) is incredibly naive. Anyone who suggests scum was right about anything is simply as naive as scum himself is.
The debate was about the process, scum's boxscore reads 0-5, with 5 backward K's. He never even got the bat off his shoulder.
Well, 99% of us know the NBA can't force a man to sell his company and knew it would go to court and a court would have to issue a ruling and that's what happened.
The half way intelligent folks that have discussed this issue in this thread said the following:
1) We had no clue how this case would play out.
2) Sterling would not sell without a fight.
3) A court would have to force him to sell the Clippers.
All three of these things happened and there's no argument about it.
All you need to know regarding AK's knowledge on topics such as this as he said the team was "sold" before money actually changed hands. He even had a licensed real estate agent come in here and tell him nothing is final until money exchanges hands and he told us we were stupid and didn't know what we were talking about.
He always thinks he's the smartest man in the room.
I don't care who people associate me with. I post what I believe is right. Always. If that puts me in an unpopular situation with the "cool crowd" on this board sometimes, I don't care.
In this thread, Aki's first post proved right. Yours proved wrong.
I don't associate you with that asshole Ace, or Wrong Way, even though they and you agreed on lots in this thread. I know you have the class and decency, and common sense they lack.
Whether the NBA forced Sterling, or a Court forced Sterling is technical BS. Unfortunately this thread got derailed by technical BS, as did the whole situation, but The NBA wanted him gone, he gone. Aki said he'd be gone before the season in his 1st thread on the topic, you said this will take years to play out. One of those was right, one of those was wrong. If you had said the right one, and Aki had said the wrong one, I'd be posting the same exact thing because you would have been right, he would have been wrong. I'm not sticking up for him, I'm sticking up for the result that ultimately was right.
As I stated, EVERYONE was right and EVERYONE was wrong in this thread at one time or another. We now have the final verdict(I hope, LOL), and we can pay off the winning ticket. Aki had the winning ticket. It doesn't really matter how he got there. To deny it at his point is like Wrong Way still insisting he was right about the 2012 election, he just didn't foresee the "inner city"
coming out to vote like they did, but it doesn't change the result of who won and who lost. Romney ain't in the Whitehouse and Sterling ain't at Staples Center. Game over.
