In an NBA day filled with momentous decisions and dramatic gestures, the Golden State Warriors almost made one of the biggest.
According to Marcus Thompson of the San Jose Mercury News, the Dubs had a protest planned ahead of their Game 5 matchup against the Los Angeles Clippers that they would have carried out had NBA Commissioner Adam Silver's punishment of Donald Sterling not been severe enough:
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.
Silver's decision to drop the hammer on Sterling—a lifetime ban, a $2.5 million fine and a strong suggestion to the other 29 owners to force Sterling to sell the team—apparently satisfied the Warriors, who only revealed the plan to Thompson after they'd decided not to go through with it.
"It would have been our only chance to make a statement in ...
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