David Stern is far and away the best commish of the major sporting leagues, and we say that both because it’s true, and also because we don’t really like other sports.
We’ve been “the best” at a lot of things over the course of our life, so we can easily relate to how difficult it is when you need to come forward and admit you’ve done some things wrong, as Mr. Stern had to yesterday.
NBA commissioner David Stern acknowledged that it was a mistake to schedule the San Antonio Spurs to open the Western Conference semifinals with an early game Sunday.
“If we had it to do over again, we wouldn’t have acceded to the network’s request on that one,” Stern said on Monday night. We could lay it off on the network, but that’s our responsibility, and we have the ability to say no. And we should have.”
The commissioner also said Monday that the NBA probably would change its playoff seeding format. “I think we’re just talking about taking the four teams in each conference with the best records and seeding them one through four,” he said.
Thinking about it? We’d say that’s pretty much a done deal, right? If this were seeded correctly, not only would Mavs-Spurs have been saved for the conference finals, but we’d have LeBron vs. Wade going on right now, which means the Cavs could get their asses handed to them in a couple weeks instead of tonight again.
Not only that, but we’d finally, finally, finally get to see Elton Brand and Tim Duncan trading bank shots. Not only that, but we’d easily be able to come up with way more ways to use the phrase “not only that” if this were all straightened out for this year.
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I would say Stern is suffering from an acute Freudian reaction where he can’t believe that Steve “I Am Almost Totally Unmarketable” Nash is winning ANOTHER MVP.
I have it on good authority that next year, Stern will have all those who voted for Nash “disappeared”.
David Stern and his love fest, is kissing up to the WHINING Spurs once again. Go ahead and suspend Jason Terry for doing nothing. Show me anywhere , where he punched cry baby Michael Finley. You can’t and there is not such a tape. Once again he is holding the Whiny Spurs and breast feeding them. Stern go away. You suck. And your Spurs go down on friday night. And this time, not just down on you.
Usually I stay away from criticizing decisions made by the league but this time they’ve gone too far! I wish James Jones had elbowed Tim Duncan as hard as possible then when Tony Parker runs to check on his teammate, they can eject him! This is B.S. How does it make sense that the Suns are being punished for Robert Horry nearly injuring the best player on the Suns? The Commissioner and the league should be ashamed of themselves! Especially since earlier in the game I believe Parker and someone else on the Spurs, walked on the court after a similar incident occurred. Why wasn’t the strict rule applied there?? David Stern, this is more then a mistake, you are single handedly giving the championship to the Spurs. Jerk!
David Stern, I can’t think enough derogatory comments about you after this game this evening and your suspensions that CAUSED this result. You stink! You should be ashamed of yourselves along with the rest of the league. The way the refs continually allow the crybaby Spurs to break all kinds of rules during the game. Who wants to watch any of this malarkey?!?? If the Suns lose, I won’t and will discourage anyone else from doing so.
David Stern basically handed the Spurs game 5 on a silver platter. Because of his bad decisions. He caters to the floppy spurs on every ocasion. Robert Horry should have been banned from the NBA, not just a 2 game suspension. He is and has always been a DIRTY PLAYER. I wish someone would kick his A#$ and teach him a lesson. His decisions have disgraced the NBA and frankly turns fans away from this sport. He rewarded the SPURS for playing dirty, way to go IDIOT.
Mr Stern, I am huge basketball fan from Miami, but after I saw what happened in the Detroit/Cleveland games I have decided to stop watching or supporting the NBA because I was disgusted by the way the game was won and lost by referees and not players, I am not a referee fan therefore I will stop watching because I use to watch for the players before…that was really bad how media can control the calls of the referees, if anyone breathed on James or Gibson they were called for a foul, while other Detroit and Cleveland players were treated very unfairly…Those referees and their calls were not neutral at all and they controlled the destiny of these 2 teams…I feel like I just lost a hobby, well I guess now I ll have more time on my hands to enjoy something else, I will not be watching the finals and I have about 13 homes that will not watch because of that…good luck in fixing this problem…
Antoine Mourani
Mr Stern, I am a huge basketball fan from Miami, but after I saw what happened in the Detroit/Cleveland games I have decided to stop watching or supporting the NBA because I was disgusted by the way the game was won and lost by referees and not players, I am not a referee fan therefore I will stop watching because I use to watch for the players before…that was really bad how media can control the calls of the referees, if anyone breathed on James or Gibson they were called for a foul, while other Detroit and Cleveland players were treated very unfairly…Those referees and their calls were not neutral at all and they controlled the destiny of these 2 teams…I feel like I just lost a hobby, well I guess now I ll have more time on my hands to enjoy something else, I will not be watching the finals and I have about 13 homes that will not watch because of that…good luck in fixing this problem…
Antoine Mourani
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