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Halu Sination:
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is battling cancer, sources have confirmed to ESPN.com.

The news was first reported by the New York Post.

The Post, citing sources, reported that the 80-year-old Sterling has been battling prostate cancer for an extended period of time.

Sterling was banned for life from the NBA and fined $2.5 million by commissioner Adam Silver earlier in the week after racist remarks he made were published by TMZ.

Silver has urged the league's owners to force a sale of the Clippers, which they can do with approval from three-fourths of the league's 30 owners.

Blake Griffin, speaking after the Clippers' 100-99 Game 6 loss to the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night, said he was unaware of Sterling's cancer.

"If that is true, my thoughts and prayers are with him," Griffin said. "Nobody deserves to go through something like that."

Chris Paul, who also said he hadn't heard about the cancer, called it "truly unfortunate," while coach Doc Rivers said he didn't know about it and that he hoped it wasn't true.

The league's advisory/finance committee held its first meeting about Sterling on Thursday. The 10-member committee said in a statement that it "unanimously agreed to move forward as expeditiously as possible" on the process of terminating Sterling's ownership and planned to reconvene next week.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/10871033/los-angeles-clippers-owner-donald-sterling-cancer



Damn.

Mietek23:
What goes around, comes around... karma is a bitch.

Remedy360:

--- Quote from: Mietek23 on May 02, 2014, 04:01:07 AM ---What goes around, comes around... karma is a bitch.

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Yeah..but I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Kinda feels like stooping to his level.

DeeezNuuuts83:

--- Quote from: Mietek23 on May 02, 2014, 04:01:07 AM ---What goes around, comes around... karma is a bitch.

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Being prejudiced doesn't mean that you deserve to have cancer.  It's not like he was out there killing people because they were a certain race.  If anything, the guy just had some fucked up opinions and maybe favored certain people over others because of race, but in reality, the guy was employing A LOT of black people and paying them millions.

That being said, cancer is always a serious thing (as I've had family and friends who have fought it), but prostate cancer isn't high on the list of deadly cancers, plus the guy is in his 80s and with enough money to do everything possible to fight it, and he's in good enough health to attend games and what not, as a lot of people battling cancer are often restricted to very little movement and sometimes don't make it this far... some people don't even hit 80 even with a clean bill of health.  So while I hope the best for him, he's not exactly fighting for his life.  It's like when Warren Buffet revealed that, at age 89, he had prostate cancer.  I don't feel that bad for an 89 year-old billionaire who has that battle that late in life.

Mietek23:

--- Quote from: Remedy360 on May 02, 2014, 10:58:36 AM ---
--- Quote from: Mietek23 on May 02, 2014, 04:01:07 AM ---What goes around, comes around... karma is a bitch.

--- End quote ---

Yeah..but I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Kinda feels like stooping to his level.

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I know. Just saying - when you threat people like that, eventually it will come back to you in some kind of way..

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