The continued attempt to oust Donald Sterling is one that needs to be completed by the NBA, but some of the rumored people interested in buying the Los Angeles Clippers are no better than the racist owner himself.
After coming down hard on Sterling with a lifetime ban and a $2.5 million fine, NBA commissioner Adam Silver also plans on forcing the sale of the team to rid the league of Sterling altogether.
That is the right move by the league, which needs 75 percent of the owners around the sport to vote in favor of. Achieving that is as certain as the sun rising every morning.
What the NBA can't do is be hypocritical in its search for new ownership. Some of the rumored people who may be interested in buying the team are alarming at best.
One report, courtesy of Dan Rafael of ESPN.com, has Floyd Mayweather Jr. interested in buying the team.
What's wrong with that, you may ask?
Well, how about the fact that Mayweather Jr. recently did a stint in jail for domestic abuse on his former girlfriend. To make matters more despicable, "Money" did it in front of the pair's children.
The charge, which was pleaded down to 90 days (he served just 60), could have led to a 34-year sentence in Las Vegas, Nevada had he gone to trial. Talk about getting off easy.
Mayweather Jr. has also fired off his own racial slurs in the past when talking about fellow boxer Manny Pacquiao, calling the Philipines-born star a "little yellow chump" and saying he would make Pacquiao cook a sushi roll and rice for him.
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I'd be interested investing in @LAclippers !!!! Make It #WingstopArena @WingstopCEO Lets Goooo !!!
— Mastermind (@rickyrozay) April 29, 2014
I will always be a Knicks fan, but I am a business man. #DiddyBuyTheClippers #NameYourPrice
— Diddy (@iamdiddy) April 29, 2014
If you're not familiar with Ross' music, he often glorifies the degradation of women, dealing drugs and the use of the N-word in his lyrics.As for Diddy, he has done much of the same as Ross during his career and was even involved in a nightclub shooting back in 1999 where it was alleged he fired a shot into the ceiling of the club he was at.
If these are the potential suitors the NBA will have lined up to buy the team, then there are more problems afoot for the league.
After bouncing Sterling, the league cannot afford to bring in more ownership who are as morally bankrupt as the former owner. Granted, any of these "stars" wouldn't be majority owners, but they would loom large as a major face connected to the franchise.
How hypocritical would it be for the league to input a wife beater or a couple of men who use racial slurs in their music and glorify such horrible things?
Considering all that has happened, the league cannot simply turn a blind eye to people with these qualities.
If the NBA has any power in stopping these men from having a stake in the franchise down the road, commissioner Silver must do all he can to prevent it or else the NBA will have accomplished nothing while looking insincere in their efforts to rid the league of bigotry and other disgraceful behavior by league owners.
