If you can't figure out the difference between race discrimination and talent discrimination, then you're an idiot. Korean and Chinese citizens are welcome to play basketball in the NBA if they are talented enough to do it. That there are few Korean and Chinese citizens with the requisite talent [...] and desire
Whoa, whoa, slow down. Are you saying there generally are physical differences between races?
Um, no. You just lopped off the end of my sentence to make it seem that way. It's yet another demonstration of your complete inability to fairly characterize others' arguments.
Few Chinese or Korean athletes with the requisite talent to compete in NBA basketball are interested in doing so. There are fewer opportunities for young Chinese and Korean athletes to learn and play basketball since it isn't as popular in those cultures. It's probably also just easier, cheaper, and more popular to recruit and scout American athletes over foreign ones. There are undoubtedly fewer opportunities for a foreign athlete to prove to an American franchise that he has the requisite skills to compete for a spot on a NBA roster.
And, yes, I think that submitting to racists and behaving as they command you to behave is probably going to cause you to do some racist things.
Be specific. In Tom's scenario, would pulling your daughter out of the school make you a racist?
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: No, it doesn't cause you to suddenly be a person who believes in racial superiority. Yes, telling your daughter not to associate with Indian people is a racist thing to do (a much more accurate analogy to what really happened; Sterling didn't pull his girlfriend out of the NBA...he told her not to associate with black people). Yes, pulling your daughter out of her school simply because Indian students attend it is a racist thing to do. People who do not believe in racial superiority are still capable of doing racist things and behaving in a racist manner.
Not that I don't love argument by analogy, but let's at least use a relatively accurate one. Sterling's girlfriend is an adult, he didn't pull her out of the NBA, and he wasn't "continually abused" (Tom is literally just making that up). Let's stop pretending that Sterling was some random, sweet, loving old dude somehow duped into saying something racist when he doesn't really mean any of it. He has a documented history of saying some pretty fucked up shit about racial minorities.
More accurately, if I was a NBA franchise owner and I received regular phone calls from my BoG telling me to make my girlfriend stop associating with black people, I think it would be racist of me to tell my girlfriend to stop associating with black people. That would be a racist thing to do. The fact that a bunch of people called me and told me to behave in a racist way wouldn't absolve me of behaving like a racist.
And it's all irrelevant anyway. It doesn't mater if he's a racist or not. The NBA's labor pool believe he's racist. The NBA's customers believe he's racist. The NBA is in the business of making cash hand-over-fist, and they need customers and a labor pool to do that. He's got to go.