Posted by firefly:
You guys are funny. David Stern is the only reason ll you guys are watching basketball at all! Without Stern its highly doubtful that there would be any NBA at all.
The guy can't win. Take the Knicks. First he rigged the lottery to get us Pat, then he suspended half the team because he doesn't want us to succeed. Which is it?
Rules are rules. Without the rules, there is no sport. If you don't stay within the rules, you don't play the game.
Is Stern a dictator? Yes. He deserves to be a dictator. Its his league, he got it going, he kept it afloat when things were rough, and he's turned it from a drug-ridden sideshow to one of the most successful sports leagues in the world.
So get a grip. When things go wrong, Stern sorts it out. When Joey Crawford went nuts, he suspended him. When the Knicks were robbed this season on a last-second missed call(goal-tending) he sent the assistant commish to MSG to apologize. He runs the league and he does it well. So he doesn't like Dan Patrick, big deal. So he lost his cool, so what. Get over it and appreciate the man for what he's done for the sport. Everything.
You guys are funny. David Stern is the only reason ll you guys are watching basketball at all! Without Stern its highly doubtful that there would be any NBA at all.
not true. Jordan, bird and magic saved the game and are the reason why a lot of kids and men our age are still fans. This league has survived in the 80's and 90's because of great players and great rivalries. bulls/pistons, Piston/ celtics, Celtics/ Lakers, Knicks/ Heat, Knicks/ bulls. But after that wave of great players were gone, bird, ewing, hakeem, MJ, magic, stern had no clue what to do, so he sold his soul to gloablizing the game instead of selling the NBA he tried to sell basketball. Instead of selling teams he still tried to sell Individual stars. If it weren't for the genius of some GM's like Dumars, paxon, colangelo, who understood that those great players of the past that carried the league back then are once in a lifetime players and not every team can have a star, lets build a system, one that can survive losing good, even great players, one that is fun to watch and one that is based on TEAM play... What came forth from that are the pistons, suns, and now the bulls, add the utah jazz into that, hell even the warriors were fun to watch.. the key is teams like this, like the suns, can lose good players like Joe johnson, marbury, Q rich, and not miss a beat, they can lose amare for a whole season and still run their system. The warriors have a style where they can plug in retreads like matt barnes and still function and be fun to watch. Stern had nothing to do with this.... Stern was too busy guiding wade and the heat to the finals..... his new poster boy!
Anyone who sits around and waits for the lottery to better themselves, either in real life or in sports, Is a Loser...............
TKF