Feigen: NBA's double standard for owners on full display with Robert Sarver suspension
But the NBA has rules, even for owners. Its constitution and bylaws help dictate who can become an owner and what is required to remove an owner. Silver is empowered to enact those rules, as he did with the suspension.
With Sarver “ultimately we made a judgment, I made a judgment, that in the circumstances in which he had used that language and that behavior, that while, as I said, it was indefensible is not strong enough — it’s beyond the pale in every possible way to use language and behave that way — but that it was wholly of a different kind than what we saw in that earlier case.”Sarver repeatedly spoke and acted in racist and misogynistic ways.
An owner that repeatedly used a racial epithet, even when told it was offensive to do so, was found to have said “I hate diversity.”
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