it's funny how some people seriously believe that one person saying something off-colour is actually going to affect the nba brand as a whole.
Major sponsors did, in fact, suspend their investments in the Clippers and more were lined up to walk away, had not Siver acted accordingly. Yeah, the league would go on if he were still there, but his presence would be a needless embarrassing distraction. There's no room in sport for an owner who articulates such Jim Crow beliefs.
