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width:32px;height:32px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/64x64\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-credit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"WordPress Social Media Feather\" href=\"http:\/\/synved.com\/wordpress-social-media-feather\/\" style=\"color:#444; text-decoration:none; font-size:8px; margin-left:5px;vertical-align:10px;white-space:nowrap;\"><span>by <\/span><img style=\"display: inline;margin:0;padding:0;width:16px;height:16px;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"feather\" src=\"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/icon.png\" \/><\/a><p><figure style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/nba\/news\/20140515\/donald-sterling-nba-la-clippers-adam-silver\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Through his attorney, Donald Sterling has directly refused to adhere to serious NBA sanctions. John W. McDonough\/SI\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/si\/dam\/assets\/140515011220-sterling-story-cut-single-image-cut.jpg\" title=\"Through his attorney, Donald Sterling has directly refused to adhere to serious NBA sanctions. John W. McDonough\/SI\" width=\"655\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Through his attorney, Donald Sterling has directly refused to adhere to serious NBA sanctions. John W. McDonough\/SI<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<em>by Michael McCann<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SI.com has learned that Clippers owner Donald Sterling has hired prominent antitrust litigator Maxwell Blecher, who has written a letter to NBA executive vice president and general counsel Rick Buchanan threatening to sue the NBA. The letter, sources tell SI.com, claims that Sterling has done nothing wrong and that &#8220;no punishment is warranted&#8221; for Sterling. Blecher also tells Buchanan that Sterling will not pay the $2.5 million fine, which is already past due. Blecher ends the letter by saying this controversy &#8220;will be adjudicated.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Blecher&#8217;s letter makes clear what many have anticipated: Donald Sterling will not go down without a fight and that he is taking active steps toward litigation. A letter of this type is considered a precursor to the filing of a lawsuit. Blecher&#8217;s letter offers no ambiguity about Sterling&#8217;s intentions.<br \/>\n&#8220;We reject your demand for payment,&#8221; the letter tells Buchanan, who on May 14 informed Sterling by letter that he must pay the $2.5 million fine.<\/p>\n<p>Blecher&#8217;s letter goes on to identify two basic legal defenses for Sterling.   <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/nba\/news\/20140515\/donald-sterling-nba-la-clippers-adam-silver\/#ixzz31zFIsrhK\n\">Read More:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.LasVegasBuffetClub.Com \">Visit the main pages of LasVegasBuffetClub.Com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SI.com has learned that Clippers owner Donald Sterling has hired prominent antitrust litigator Maxwell Blecher, who has written a letter to NBA executive vice president and general counsel Rick Buchanan threatening to sue the NBA. The letter, sources tell SI.com, claims that Sterling has done nothing wrong and that &#8220;no punishment is warranted&#8221; for Sterling. Blecher also tells Buchanan that Sterling will not pay the $2.5 million fine, which is already past due. Blecher ends the letter by saying this controversy &#8220;will be adjudicated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1443,1442,1445,1444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9826,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions\/9826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}