Yesterday NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that Donald Sterling is banned for LIFE from the NBA, fined $2.5 million and will try to force him to sell the Clippers. Everyone was happy with Mr. Silver’s decision on Sterling, BUT if the players on the Warriors weren’t satisfied with the punishment, they were going to make a powerful statement during game 5 last night.
Check out what their plan was…
Via MercuryNews:
The plan was set, the product of a 30-minute players meeting.
The Warriors were going to go through pre-game warm-ups and take part in the national anthem and starting line-up introductions. They were going to take the floor for the jump ball, dapping up the Clippers players as is customary before games.
Then once the ball was in the air, they were just going to walk off. All 15 of them.
“It would have been our only chance to make a statement in front of the biggest audience that we weren’t going to accept anything but the maximum punishment,” Curry said. “We would deal with the consequences later but we were not going to play.”
