What can the NBA do about unwanted owners?
We look at why breast-cancer survivors have a high rate of long-term unemployment. And, a look at the markets in the week ahead.
The National Basketball Association says it’s first order of business is to verify whether or not it’s the voice of the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, making disparaging remarks about African American people. The tape is allegedly a conversation between Sterling and his mixed-race girlfriend V. Stiviano. The man on the tape urges Stiviano not to bring her black friends to LA Clippers games. Taking photos with black people is like, quote, “talking to the enemy.” Magic Johnson and Charles Barclay are among former NBA players who say if the tape is really the Clipper’s owner then Sterling can’t keep owning the team. For some perspective, we turn to Kenneth Shropshire, director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania.
And, a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Care Center finds that breast-cancer survivors have a high rate of long-term unemployment. And the specific kind of treatment they get, may lower their chances of keeping their job or finding a new job years later.
Meanwhile, with a hint of the week ahead when it comes to not just those markets but to the economy and jobs, we check in with Carl Riccadona, senior US economist, Deutsche Bank Securities in New York.