A billionaire who made his fortune employing high-pressure tactics to sell the loans that drove the US economy off a cliff is bad enough. Even worse if he also presided over the leadership vacuum that blew the greatest homegrown hometown superstar athlete in world history out of Cleveland, then reacted to that failure by engaging in an astonishingly reductive demonization campaign that’s made Cleveland a safer place for ignorance and intolerance for nothing but his own short term benefit. That this same guy would also be the one to put his fortune to re-writing the law so that he can use casino games to prey on folks for whom life is most meaningless means we’re really talking about the pits here.
But still, there are worse things than Dan Gilbert, including LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who’s really as bad as it gets. Which is why it was so genius for the Cavs to trade for Sterling’s lottery pick last season. Once the Clippers unloaded the pick, last year’s NBA draft lottery r...
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TEAMS: Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Clippers, Florida Gators, Kentucky Wildcats
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