Why does it not surprise me to pull up RS and see that Erick, Son of Erick, completely missed the point of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s to play the ever scary “precedent” card, claiming now that anybody can get any NBA team owner fined and banned for life simply by catching them on tape saying “controversial” things and then making them public.

What’s sad about the editorial is that there’s actually a good point in Erickson’s little bit, that it should not have taken the NBA until this tape became public before it decided that it could no longer be associated with Sterling. That he was a racist who was also keeping a mistress were open secrets that the NBA did nothing about until he got caught saying something they couldn’t sweep under the rug.