SI.com has learned that Clippers owner Donald Sterling has hired prominent antitrust litigator Maxwell Blecher, who has written a letter to NBA executive vice president and general counsel Rick Buchanan threatening to sue the NBA. The letter, sources tell SI.com, claims that Sterling has done nothing wrong and that "no punishment is warranted" for Sterling. Blecher also tells Buchanan that Sterling will not pay the $2.5 million fine, which is already past due. Blecher ends the letter by saying this controversy "will be adjudicated."There was never a chance that Donald Sterling would go away quietly. This is gonna make the Frank McCourt circus look like a dignified procession.
Blecher's letter makes clear what many have anticipated: Donald Sterling will not go down without a fight and that he is taking active steps toward litigation. A letter of this type is considered a precursor to the filing of a lawsuit. Blecher's letter offers no ambiguity about Sterling's intentions.
"We reject your demand for payment," the letter tells Buchanan, who on May 14 informed Sterling by letter that he must pay the $2.5 million fine.
Friday, May 16, 2014
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Silver, the players, and the NBA in general deserve it. Sure it was cathartic to act like righteous autocrats, but that doesn't work so well if the target refuses to properly play his role of evil, but cowed bad-guy.
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Rule of Law faces off against Mob Rule. Get your bets down.
as a resident of the los angeles media market who cares not a wit about basketball... i'm gonna hate every minute of this.
I've got a suggestion; no adulterer can own an NBA team or work for one.
Mark, Gino, it's time for us to make the show!
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