The business isn't the Clippers it's the NBA. They are well within their right to kick his ass out. If he sued the best case scenario is that he gets to remain the owner of the Clippers, then they kick the Clippers out of the league.
without knowledge of the inherent legal relationship between the league, its teams, and its owners, you don't really know what the NBA is within their right to do. what gives the nba exclusivity from labor and employment laws that prevent employers, which the NBA could certainly be viewed as in this scenario, from dictating what people think outside of their workplace? his billionaire ass should be protected just like the dude who works at taco bell making $8/hour. if sterling sued, the nba has opened themselves up for a lot more damages than if sterling simply were to continuing to own his team. he's the longest tenured owner in the league. he's owned the team 30 years within this same league who's eyes for the first time are now wide open? bullshit.
the nba has taken what they perceive to be the easy way out in an effort to protect their reputation, which in and of itself is beyond contrived.
shouldn't everyone have the right to say what they feel when outside of the workplace, within a private conversation?
sterling could simply say he was kidding, he's friends with magic, he's had countless professional relationships with african americans his entire career. he's the league's most tenured owner. his head coach is black. it was a joke that was illegally taped and broadcast beyond its intended audience. where's the rest of the recording when he explained he doesn't actually feel this way and that he mocking how dumb racists are? was you're going to take the word of some gold digging hussy over his? prove he wasn't kidding which you can't and give him a crap load of money for trying to strong arm his business away from him.
anyway, this is stupid.