USA Today article, sponsors are fleeing the ship see quote below. Do you think they should wait? Do you think they should say, no no, nobody should know that that was an illegl tape?
Do you think the knee jerk reactionary california public is going to care if it’s an illegal tape when your name is still hanging up there during clipper games?
Again, this is a FRANCHISE. In a Franchise, you own the debt and that’s about it, the FRANCHISOR, the parent company, owns the brand, the product rights and usually complete control of how stuff is done.
You, ‘the owner’, will do it their way…
That’s not just the NBA, that’s virtually every franchise with a solid national brand.
Public opinion isn’t bound by rules of the court. It’s a privte conversatin that was illegal recorded isn’t a defense for behaving like the schmuck everyone thinks you are.
That’s the core of ‘community’. They AGREE to live together under a unwritten set os norms.
This is America, you can do what you want, just don’t whine when the community kicks your *ss out for not staying in the norms.
Those norms have shifted pretty dramatically since Sterling was a young man.
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LOS ANGELES – Sponsors are pulling a fast break away from the Los Angeles Clippers and their embattled owner, Donald Sterling.
As the condemnation of Sterling and his racially insensitive comments spread Monday, major financial supporters of the NBA franchise announced they were severing ties with the Clippers.
In rapid succession, the mass exodus included used car seller CarMax, State Farm Insurance, Kia Motors America, airline Virgin America, P. Diddy’s water brand, AQUAHydrate, Red Bull, Yokohama tires and Mercedes-Benz.
