But we should keep in mind who the real players are here.

The movement to dump Sterling was not masterminded by some pinko lefty Hollywood media gang, nor did it originate in the councils of Big Government Bureaucracy. This coup d'etat was carried out with the direct approval, if not deliberately engineered, by his peers; his fellow owners and the hierarchy of Daddy Warbucks types who play at team ownership and league servicing the way you and I play sandlot softball.

Sterling's actions were making it hard on his fellow owners, he was pissing in the communal soup, killing the goose with the golden eggs, and the other guests at the feast are only protecting their financial interest from the consequences of his public bigotry. When talk of strike and boycott started surfacing, and the players started getting really pissed, too many heavy hitters felt threatened. Either they seized on the PC angle to justify a purely business move, or, as JEKing suggests below, the whole affair was set in motion to lubricate some long-planned clandestine behind-the-scenes business transaction.

Remember, Magna Carta did nothing for the peasants. It was purely boardroom politics--a bourgeois revolution.