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was yes seems like the obvious one.

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And yet, it wasnt so obvious a move at the time.

Its certainly not obvious that Stern would have chosen the nuclear option.

That seems undeniably true.

Do you know what perversions they have in their closets?

They go to sex dungeons.

They hunt baby elephants.

Now you do.)

(Though protecting the other owners from having to vote Sterling out themselves was essential, too.

(The lede, This could wind up being a pretty short ban, suggests that Sterling was dying.

He is currently 90 and very much alive.)

(Theyre still married.)

She was a slumlord, too.

It opens with V. leading a social worker through the home environment shes maintained for her would-be-adopted sons.

And now Sterling, isolated and angry, wants to weigh in.

Glenn, part of Shellys legal team, seems to know shes the former.

Its his job to coach her to be the latter.

I knew he had something up his sleeve, but I didnt think hed go Jean Valjean.

While its possible, even likely, that former Clipper andnewly minted Los Angeles Lakers coachJ.J.

Redick knows his Victor Hugo, aLes Miserablesreference doesnt sound like plausible locker-room talk.

Paul was just a well-known irritant around the league, and the Clippers raucous locker-room celebration annoyed the visitors.