英貨の／純銀の banned for life by the NBA

By Associated 圧力（をかける）

Published: 20:45 BST, 29 April 2014 | Updated: 20:46 BST, 29 April 2014

NEW YORK (AP) ― 問題／発行するing about the strongest rebuke that he could, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald 英貨の／純銀の for life Tuesday for making 人種差別主義者 comments in a 記録，記録的な／記録するd conversation, the first step toward 軍隊ing a sale of the club and 永久的に 除去するing 英貨の／純銀の from the league.

Silver also 罰金d 英貨の／純銀の $2.5 million, and again 表明するd 乱暴／暴力を加える.

"I fully 推定する／予想する to get the support I need from the other NBA owners to 除去する him," Silver said.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver makes a 声明 during a news 会議／協議会 in New York, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Silver 発表するd that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald 英貨の／純銀の has been banned for life by the league, in respons e to 人種差別主義者 comments the league says he made in a 記録，記録的な／記録するd conversation. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Several owners すぐに chimed in with support of Silver's 決定／判定勝ち（する）. 英貨の／純銀の, the league's longest-任期d owner and someone with an 概算の 逮捕する 価値（がある） of about $2 billion, did not 申し込む／申し出 any 即座の comment.

The 刑罰，罰則s, which were 発表するd only three days after the スキャンダル broke, are the harshest ever 問題／発行するd by the league and の中で the stiffest 罰s ever given to an owner in professional sports. Silver said a league 調査 設立する that 英貨の／純銀の was in fact the person on the audiotapes that were 解放（する）d over the 週末 and すぐに sent shock waves throughout the game.

"We stand together in 非難するing Mr. 英貨の／純銀の's 見解（をとる）s," Silver said. "They 簡単に have no place in the NBA."

英貨の／純銀の 定評のある he was the man on the tape, Silver said.

英貨の／純銀の still owns the team, but going 今後 he is すぐに 閉めだした from …に出席するing any NBA games or practices, 存在 現在の at any Clippers office or 施設, 参加するing in any 商売／仕事 or player 職員／兵員 決定／判定勝ち（する）s 伴う／関わるing the team, or 存在 part of any league 商売／仕事.

It's 不明瞭な how 英貨の／純銀の will 答える／応じる.

"This league is far bigger than any one owner, any one coach and any one player," said Silver, who as commissioner has 幅の広い 力／強力にするs under what's typically called the "best 利益／興味 of the game" 条項 of the NBA 憲法.

But Silver 作品 for the owners, and he will need 75 パーセント of them ― if all 30 teams 投票（する）, he'll need 23 on his 味方する ― to 軍隊 英貨の／純銀の out of the league 完全に.

The 罰金 will be 寄付するd to organizations 献身的な to an ti-差別 and 寛容 成果／努力s that will be 共同で selected by the NBA and the Players 協会, Silver said.

"This has all happened in three days, and so I am 希望に満ちた there will be no long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 損失 to the league and to the Clippers organization," Silver said. "But as I said earlier, I'm 乱暴／暴力を加えるd so I certainly understand other people's 乱暴／暴力を加える. This will take some time and appropriate 傷をいやす／和解させるing will be necessary."

After the 告示, the Clippers' website had a simple message: "We are one," it read.

"We wholeheartedly support and embrace the 決定／判定勝ち（する） by the NBA and Commissioner Adam Silver today. Now the 傷をいやす／和解させるing 過程 begins," the Clippers 追加するd in a 声明.

英貨の／純銀の's comments were 解放（する）d over the 週末 by TMZ and Deadspin, and 非常に／多数の NBA owners and players have 非難するd them. Even 大統領 Barack Obama 重さを計るd in on the 危機, the first of Silver's 簡潔な／要約する 任期 as commissioner.

"Commissioner Silver thank you for 保護するing our beautiful and powerful league!! 広大な／多数の／重要な leader!!," Miami Heat 星／主役にする LeBron James wrote on Twitter.

The league's 調査 started Saturday and players すぐに began 表明するing 激しい displeasure with the 状況／情勢, even going so far as to ask Sacramento 市長 Kevin Johnson to get 伴う／関わるd on に代わって of the players' union.

"When one rotten apple does something, or if you see 癌, you've got to 削減（する） it out really quickly," Kevin Johnson said at a news 会議／協議会 in Los Angeles, 側面に位置するd by NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and players like Steve Nash, Tyson Chandler, Luke Walton and Roger Mason Jr., の中で others. "And Commissioner Silver did that in real time. We're so proud and thankful for him."

The sanctio ns （機の）カム a few hours before the Clippers were to play Golden 明言する／公表する in Game 5 of a tied-up Western 会議／協議会 first-一連の会議、交渉／完成する プレーオフ series.

"When you get this many Lakers to stand up for the Clippers, you know something big is happening in L.A.," Los Angeles 市長 Eric Garcetti said. "We are a 選び出す／独身 team here today, a team not only speaking out for what we're against ― 人種差別主義, 憎悪, bigotry, intolerance ― but what we're for. We're for 広大な／多数の／重要な basketball."

Before Silver took the podium, Dallas 無所属の政治家s owner 示す Cuban tweeted out a photo of the NBA 憲法, 説 "It 存在するs for a 推論する／理由."

Several sponsors either 終結させるd or 一時停止するd their 商売／仕事 取引 with the team on Monday, though individual 取引，協定s that some of those companies have with Clippers 星／主役にするs like Chris Paul and Blake Griffin will continue and were not 影響する／感情d. Still, it was a （疑いを）晴らす 声明 that companies, like just about everyone inside the league, were 乱暴／暴力を加えるd.

"Commissioner Silver showed 広大な／多数の／重要な leadership in banning LA Clippers owner Donald 英貨の／純銀の for life," 魔法 Johnson, who was 言及／関連d on the taped conversation 伴う／関わるing 英貨の／純銀の, tweeted すぐに after the league's 決定／判定勝ち（する） was 発表するd.

Johnson's 役割 on the tape stemmed from 英貨の／純銀の's 女性（の） companion 明らかに 地位，任命するing a photo of her and the Hall of Fame player on her Instagram account. That photo has since been 削除するd, but raised 英貨の／純銀の's 怒らせる nonetheless.

"It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with 黒人／ボイコット people. Do you have to?" 英貨の／純銀の asks the woman on the tape.

The 問題／発行するs raised when the tapes were 解放（する）d over the 週末 代表する just another 一時期／支部 in 英貨の／純銀の's long history of 存在 at the 中心 of 論争.

In the past, he's 直面するd 広範囲にわたる 連邦の 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s of civil 権利s 違反s and racial 差別 in his 商売／仕事 取引, and some of his race-関係のある 声明s would be 述べるd as shocking.

He has also been 告訴するd in the past for 性の いやがらせ by former 従業員s, and even the woman who goes by the 指名する "V. Stiviano" ― purportedly the 女性（の） 発言する／表明する on the tapes at the 中心 of this スキャンダル ― 述べるs 英貨の／純銀の in 法廷，裁判所 文書s as a man "with a big toothy grin brandishing his 性の prowess in the 直面するs of the Paparazzi and caring いっそう少なく what anyone else thought, the least of which, his own wife."

Stiviano is 存在 告訴するd by Rochelle 英貨の／純銀の, who is 捜し出すing to 埋め立てる at least $1.8 million in cash and gifts that her husband 恐らく 供給するd the woman.

Silver said when he first heard the 音声部の, he hoped it had been altered or was 偽の ― but also said that from his 20-year 関係 with 英貨の／純銀の, he 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd the 発言する／表明する was his.

"This has been a painful moment," Silver said, "for all members of the NBA family."

FILE - In this April 4, 2010, とじ込み／提出する photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald 英貨の／純銀の sits courtside during the NBA basketball game between the New York Knicks and the in Los Angeles. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Silver 発表するd Tuesday, April 298, 2014, that 英貨の／純銀の has been banned for life by the league, in 返答 to 人種差別主義者 comments the league says he made in a 記録，記録的な／記録するd conversation.(AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, とじ込み／提出する)

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver 演説（する）／住所s the マスコミ during a news 会議／協議会 in New York, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Silver 発表するd that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald 英貨の／純銀の has been banned for life by the league in 返答 to 人種差別主義者 comments the league says he made in a 記録，記録的な／記録するd conversation. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)