I'm guessing that they could force a minority owner to relinquish whatever percentage of the team they owned while the majority owner is left intact. Again, it ultimately comes down to how high profile the offense is. Remember Sterling has had federal lawsuits waged against him for housing discrimination without it ever ruffling enough feathers nationally or with the PA to provoke the other owners into action.
It's a continuous spectrum of correlation to the NBA that is proportional to the amount of ownership.
I realize that, but the threshold for "detrimental to the League" doesn't require that he be. His recent statements wouldn't get him convicted in a court of law either.
That's what's known as grabbing the most convenient fig leaf in a pinch. They're only pretending to take the moral high ground in this. You don't deflect the sort of backlash Sterling generated by bluntly stating "We didn't loose any sponsors over the lawsuits".
I felt the same way when I heard the entire statement. There's a lot of honesty, introspection, and nuance to what he said. I getsomeof the criticism that he's generated but it's good to see that it hasn't reached firestorm proportions.
Basically any business has shares, bro. They're just not traded on open markets.
