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999
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| doughboy90650 wrote: | | Great job as commish and expanding the NBA all over the world. Enjoy retirement. |
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LakerDYnasty72
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LarryCoon
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:18 am Post subject: |
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Funny....when I first met him, I said none of the things mentioned in this thread.  |
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KobeBryantCliffordBrown
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:20 am Post subject: |
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| LarryCoon wrote: | | Funny....when I first met him, I said none of the things mentioned in this thread. |
You've been co-opted. You're a member of the media now.
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LarryCoon
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Pretty naive article. For example, "The NBA hired Demps to be general manager, and had no business overruling him on a basketball decision." Owners do that all the time. For ANY major move, the owner has the final say, and lots of big deals didn't take place after the GMs had agreed but an owner vetoed it.
The real point is, it shouldn't have been Stern but rather Jac Sperling who made that call. Sperling was appointed specifically so Stern could remain at arms-length from the team operations.
Instead, you have inherent conflicts between Stern's two roles, which looked really bad even if his role as Commissioner didn't interfere with his decisions as de facto owner. And to make it worse, Gilbert's publicly-leaked letter made it even more apparent. I wrote about it here:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7336526/nba-critique-dan-gilbert-letter |
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Dladi Vidac
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What happened to "Lakers vs. Lakers"?
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rwongega
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nickuku
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I'd do my best impression of Pacquiao vs Hatton.
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PhoenixForce
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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| a simple (bleep) you with 2 middle fingers up proceeded by a stone cold stunner and then id grab 2 beers and guzzle them down. |
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Gimme_the_rock
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"Jon Lovitz!!! I'm a HUGE fan!!!!"
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SGV-Laker fan
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| if i'm the Laker owner with balls and $$$, i would go up to him and say c ya, i'm moving my team to a premier Euro league, screw your scripted NBA and its new CBA. |
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LakerLanny
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| TheLakerWay wrote: | | I would tell him he's a vindictive clown who caved to the small market owners. |
That is exactly what he is. He is a NY Lawyer for crissakes, far from honest and maniacally hypocritical.
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999
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 1:29 am Post subject: |
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| I wish there was a David stern fan mail or twitter feed I could send all these wonderful messages to |
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