The List of NBA Players, Front Office Types and Owners Who Have Donated to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is, Well, As You Might Expect

Shocker! Rich white owners in the NBA like Dan Gilbert, Robert Sarver and and James Dolan have donated money to Mitt Romney’s campaign!

Shocker! Young black basketball players and coaches in the NBA like Vince Carter, Grant Hill and Doc Rivers have donated money to Barack Obama’s campaign!

Actually, none of this should surprise anyone … except maybe that Deputy Commish Adam Silver – Mr. 2nd Round of the NBA draft – donated $2 k to Obama. [Partial List below; click to Hoops Hype for the full list.]

	JOB	WORKPLACE	DONATION	CANDIDATE
Danny Ainge	Basketball operations	Boston Celtics	$2,500	Mitt Romney
Clay Bennett	Ownership	Oklahoma City Thunder	$5,000	Mitt Romney
Vince Carter	Player	Dallas Mavericks	$5,000	Barack Obama
Rick DeVos	Ownership	Orlando Magic	$5,000	Mitt Romney
James Dolan	Ownership	New York Knicks	$2,500	Mitt Romney
Ted Leonsis	Ownership	Washington Wizards	$5,500	Barack Obama
Pat Riley	President	Miami Heat	$7,500	Mitt Romney
Doc Rivers	Head coach	Boston Celtics	$5,000	Barack Obama
Robert Sarver	Ownership	Phoenix Suns	$2,500	Mitt Romney
Adam Silver	Deputy comissioner	NBA	$2,000	Barack Obama
Herb Simon	Ownership	Indiana Pacers	$7,500	Mitt Romney

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16 Responses to “The List of NBA Players, Front Office Types and Owners Who Have Donated to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is, Well, As You Might Expect”

Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 10:21 AM

So who ya got winning it all? Mitt Romne or Barack Obar?

Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 10:21 AM

Lisk thinks that table is just fine.

spencer096 Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 10:24 AM

ot…tiger vs. rory.

first five years of their careers…132 weeks as world no. 1 for tiger, 8 weeks as world no. 1 for rory and rory’s played 6 more events.

annoying to even compare.

geoffreyvs hired a PR firm to get his son's coach fired; now I'm running for Senate! Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 10:28 AM

How is there no “EPL Opening Day” post? C’mon, where’s duffy?

YYSA Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 10:29 AM

thanks for that comparison Spencer

Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 10:45 AM

ot…tiger vs. rory.

I’m not even reading the rest of that, it’s a joke though, right?

Here’s the thing, Rory at his absolute best can dominate much like Tiger did, but how many cuts has Rory missed? How many stretches of not looking like a top 50 player does he have? This sounds like an argument Rick Reilly would make in between his love letters to Mr. Woods’ anus.

sousedbergin Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 11:05 AM

If you vote for Romney you are an ignorant scumbag.

Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 11:08 AM

If you vote for Romney you are an ignorant scumbag.

Or you want a President who isn’t Muslim and wasn’t born in Kenya.

spencer096 Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 11:52 AM

Here’s the thing, Rory at his absolute best can dominate much like Tiger did, but how many cuts has Rory missed? How many stretches of not looking like a top 50 player does he have?

tiger missed one cut in the first five years of his career.

spencer096 Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 11:53 AM

Or you want a President who isn’t Muslim and wasn’t born in Kenya.

muslim/kenya >>> mormon/michigan

sweett310 Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 11:55 AM

If you vote for Romney you are an ignorant scumbag.

Or you have more than a million dollars.

/Doesn’t have a million dollars.
//Mormon’s way worse than Muslims.
///All religions pretty bad.

Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 11:57 AM

muslim/kenya >>> mormon/michigan

One’s an extremist religion and a place full of corrupt government, and the other is in Africa.

sweett310 Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 12:00 PM

Maher got me thinking last night. I don’t care about Mitten’s taxes any more, I’m more interested in how much $ has been donated to his campaign since he first announced he was running.

Looking at this chart, you gotta figure he’d be ranked in the 165-170 in terms of his donation $ vs GDP of countries, right?

BFFredo Says:
August 18th, 2012 at 12:48 PM