Everyone that's celebrating this is being extremely short-sighted. Adam Silver and the NBA's PR team just salvaged one of the biggest potential meltdowns you'd have likely ever seen in your life. Name another time when athletes will ever be in a position to boycott with public opinion behind them? They had a chance to restructure the entire league and cause some serious debates over race and class in this country, and the Silver/the NBA understood this. It wasn't just about Sterling.The NBA had to distance themselves and keep good standing with the public (hence the "investigation" into what we all knew to be true) and this decision to ban Sterling only make the league out to be the hero... This is only a moral victory for an unsuspecting public. Sterling still owns the team and for $2.5 million dollars, he was just given the opportunity to set the price to his liking which the league will be obliged to pay to maintain their status as the "hero" in this story... None of this would have been possible had the players boycotted and started making their own demands.
I see you are a new member and I thank you for joining. This is such a great post. Way too many simple nikkas here claiming this was some kind of victory. Lifetime ban?, whoppity woop nikka 80 fukken years old? Like he gives a fukk, he can watch the games on his private yacht while going to St.Tropez. 2.5 million dollars?

That is literally a drop in the bucket for someone like him.
We will see what happens regarding selling of the team. I mentioned this before, but this cac was one of them count every nickel and penny types. Either he is going to litigate this tooth and nail or sell for a major fukken profit.