For the first time since the Dodgers left for Los Angles in the 1957. Brooklyn once again has a team of their own and Commissioner David Stern helped to rip the gift wrapping of the brand new team in the swanky Barclay’s Center, in front of a sold out crowd for their first home game of the season.
Shout out to BIG, Brooklyn back.
TrackbackIt’s opening night of the 2012 NBA season and Hurricane Sandy has made a mess of the eastern seaboard. So naturally commission David Stern would like you to reach back to 2005 to keep the victims of Hurricane Katrina in your thoughts. What???
TrackbackDuring the NBA’s Board of Governors meetings in midtown Manhattan, Stern advised the league’s owners of his intention to retire on Feb. 1, 2014, the 30-year anniversary of his taking the job. Some will remember him for running the league and some will remember him for shaking the hands of some of the best players to ever lace them up.
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“Jeremy Lin is going to enable young Chinese players to have a unique dream that is a profound opportunity for Chinese basketball and the NBA to develop. The Chinese basketball players and their families are becoming more sophisticated about the road to the NBA, whether it is going to high school, summer camps, college or through the Chinese system. We are going to see Chinese players and their families work out how to make a career in the NBA. The most important thing is to develop basketball in China.” – David Stern
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It’s been a longtime coming, but the league is back and the lockout beard that David Stern dawned for a short time is finished too. Although his beard was more of a 1998–99 lockout phenomenon. This piece created by Gabriel Cunnett from Adelaide, Australia reminders us of the recent dark days that came to pass none the less.
See more from Gabriel Cunnett here.
TrackbackNBPA president Derek Fisher says that “no significant progress” was made in NBA labor talks.NBA commissioner David Stern says he has “stopped the clock” on a deadline he imposed on the NBPA during ongoing labor negotiations.I say just make a frickin’ deal you guys. Both sides meet again today at noon.
TrackbackReally Bryant Gumbel??? I mean really?
I love the league as much as the next guy, but if you think I’m gonna feel sorry for billionaire owners and millionaire players so I can see a full 82 game schedule on my calendar when there are people starving in the streets, ya dead wrong as Biggie would say.
However Bryant Gumbel would, did and he even attempted to draw parallels between David Stern and ”a modern plantation oversee” when he tackled the lockout topic on his crappy HBO show. You would think after more than a decade in the media Gumbel would know the difference between a social injustice and already rich people pay cheques being held, but apparently it’s all the same to our hero.
TrackbackWith enough money to share between millionaires and billionaires — or so it would seem. It still doesn’t make any sense why the league is holding basketball hostage from us fans. If only there was an animation from Taiwan that could explain all of this confusing mess. Oh, wait a minute…
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