replacing Clippers owner with allowing this racist guy to buy in cant be good lol
Wow read the last paragraph
hno:
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/...xpresses-interest-buying-los-angeles-clippers
LAS VEGAS -- Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. said he wants to buy the Los Angeles Clippers, hours after NBA commissioner Adam Silver banned owner Donald Sterling for life and said he would urge league owners to force him to sell the team.
Mayweather, who is a regular at Clippers and Lakers games, was speaking with a group of reporters in a VIP lounge at the MGM Grand, where he will face fellow welterweight titleholder in a unification fight in a Showtime PPV main event on Saturday night.
Mayweather said he was serious about his interest and that he had spoken with his adviser, Al Haymon, about teaming with Mayweather Promotions chief executive Leonard Ellerbe, Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer and possibly others to make a bid for the Clippers.
[h=4]STERLING BANNED FOR LIFE[/h] <center>
</center> NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced a lifetime ban and $2.5M fine for Clippers owner Donald Sterling, in the wake of Sterling's racist comments. Full coverage
"I called Al today about that to see if me, Leonard and Al, and, hopefully Richard and a couple of other guys, a couple other of my billionaire guys, we can come together and see what we can come up with," Mayweather said. "Hopefully, we can do it, and it's not just talk.
"With me, I can't come in talking about Mayweather only gonna get 3 percent, 4 percent. I got to get a solid percentage. Do we want to buy the Clippers? Yes, we do. We are very, very interested in buying the Clippers. We'll keep the Clippers right where they're at. When I'm not boxing, I'm at the games all the time. We do want to buy the Clippers. Me and my team do want to buy the Clippers and we can afford the Clippers."
Mayweather, an avid sports gambler in Las Vegas, where he lives, added, "Once I get ownership in the Clippers I can no longer bet, so I have to stop that completely."
Mayweather, whose $73.5 million in minimum purses for his two fights in 2013 made him the world's highest-paid athlete, did not weigh in on the comments that Sterling made, but said his interactions with the Clippers owner were positive.
"Donald Sterling, he's been getting a lot of negative press and my thing is this -- I don't have nothing negative to say about this guy," Mayweather said. "He's always treated me with the utmost respect. He has always invited me to games, always. Has always told me, 'Floyd, I want you to sit right next to me and my wife.' I don't know about the mistress. But I'm talking about him and the wife."
Schaefer, who is close to Mayweather and has been promoting his fights since 2007, said Mayweather was indeed serious about his interest.
"When he tells you guys he's interested in buying the Clippers he's not just saying that for an interview," Schaefer said. "He's really serious about it and I'm sure he could rally the necessary people around him to support him in a bid like that."
Mayweather is not the only celebrity to show interest in buying the team. Music and film mogul David Geffen could also be a candidate, according to the Los Angeles Times.
"If the Clippers become available he would be interested in buying the franchise," Geffen's office said in an email to the newspaper.
Mayweather had had his own past issues with making racist remarks toward Asians. In 2010, he unleashed a profanity-filled rant in an internet video against the Philippines' Manny Pacquiao, with whom he has not been able to make a deal to fight in what would be boxing's biggest event.
In an approximately 10-minute Ustream video, in which Mayweather also repeated his assertion that Pacquiao used performance-enhancing drugs, he said, in part, "As soon as we come off vacation, we're going to cook that little yellow chump. We ain't worried about that. So they ain't gotta worry about me fighting the midget. Once I kick the midget ass, I don't want you all to jump on my d---. So you all better get on the bandwagon now. ... Once I stomp the midget, I'll make that mother f----- make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice."
Wow read the last paragraph
hno:http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/...xpresses-interest-buying-los-angeles-clippers
LAS VEGAS -- Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. said he wants to buy the Los Angeles Clippers, hours after NBA commissioner Adam Silver banned owner Donald Sterling for life and said he would urge league owners to force him to sell the team.
Mayweather, who is a regular at Clippers and Lakers games, was speaking with a group of reporters in a VIP lounge at the MGM Grand, where he will face fellow welterweight titleholder in a unification fight in a Showtime PPV main event on Saturday night.
Mayweather said he was serious about his interest and that he had spoken with his adviser, Al Haymon, about teaming with Mayweather Promotions chief executive Leonard Ellerbe, Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer and possibly others to make a bid for the Clippers.
[h=4]STERLING BANNED FOR LIFE[/h] <center>
"I called Al today about that to see if me, Leonard and Al, and, hopefully Richard and a couple of other guys, a couple other of my billionaire guys, we can come together and see what we can come up with," Mayweather said. "Hopefully, we can do it, and it's not just talk.
"With me, I can't come in talking about Mayweather only gonna get 3 percent, 4 percent. I got to get a solid percentage. Do we want to buy the Clippers? Yes, we do. We are very, very interested in buying the Clippers. We'll keep the Clippers right where they're at. When I'm not boxing, I'm at the games all the time. We do want to buy the Clippers. Me and my team do want to buy the Clippers and we can afford the Clippers."
Mayweather, an avid sports gambler in Las Vegas, where he lives, added, "Once I get ownership in the Clippers I can no longer bet, so I have to stop that completely."
Mayweather, whose $73.5 million in minimum purses for his two fights in 2013 made him the world's highest-paid athlete, did not weigh in on the comments that Sterling made, but said his interactions with the Clippers owner were positive.
"Donald Sterling, he's been getting a lot of negative press and my thing is this -- I don't have nothing negative to say about this guy," Mayweather said. "He's always treated me with the utmost respect. He has always invited me to games, always. Has always told me, 'Floyd, I want you to sit right next to me and my wife.' I don't know about the mistress. But I'm talking about him and the wife."
Schaefer, who is close to Mayweather and has been promoting his fights since 2007, said Mayweather was indeed serious about his interest.
"When he tells you guys he's interested in buying the Clippers he's not just saying that for an interview," Schaefer said. "He's really serious about it and I'm sure he could rally the necessary people around him to support him in a bid like that."
Mayweather is not the only celebrity to show interest in buying the team. Music and film mogul David Geffen could also be a candidate, according to the Los Angeles Times.
"If the Clippers become available he would be interested in buying the franchise," Geffen's office said in an email to the newspaper.
Mayweather had had his own past issues with making racist remarks toward Asians. In 2010, he unleashed a profanity-filled rant in an internet video against the Philippines' Manny Pacquiao, with whom he has not been able to make a deal to fight in what would be boxing's biggest event.
In an approximately 10-minute Ustream video, in which Mayweather also repeated his assertion that Pacquiao used performance-enhancing drugs, he said, in part, "As soon as we come off vacation, we're going to cook that little yellow chump. We ain't worried about that. So they ain't gotta worry about me fighting the midget. Once I kick the midget ass, I don't want you all to jump on my d---. So you all better get on the bandwagon now. ... Once I stomp the midget, I'll make that mother f----- make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice."
