I've always admired Doc as a person. He struck me as a good man, willing to take stands on serious issues, and a great leader of men (I found some of his substitution strategies maddening, etc., but its hard to deny that our guys would run through walls for him when he was here). However, I'm seriously disappointed in his embracing Sterling's wife in this whole thing (and, quite frankly, the entire NBA for focusing on Sterling's words, and not his horribly discriminatory actions re: housing policy). Bomani Jones had a 10 minute tirade on this last week that was awesome. Anyway, yeah, I really am disappointed that Doc has made Shelly Sterling, the woman who faked being a health inspector to get ethnicities of tenants so they could impose their racial quotas in the apartments (all illegal)
(http://www.thenation.com/blog/179673/no-sympathy-shelly-sterling), a "victim" i this mess. If the NBA forces Sterling to sell the team (something I still think is going to be challenging), I sure as heck hope his wife has nothing to do with the franchise, either. Racist words are ugly and bad. Racist actions that actually harm minorities by denying them needed housing is exponentially worse. The latter is why Sterling should have been kicked to the curb years ago (yet another huge Stern failure), and why his wife should not be seen as a heroine here. Anyway, sorry for the rant. I'm just disgusted by this whole thing, and disappointed that Doc went along w/ the mainstream story that only focused on Sterling's words.
