Comments on: SAY IT AIN’T SO, DAVID STERN

By: Headhunt23

Headhunt23 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:38:43 +0000

Not surprising at all…

I can point to two instances when the NBA head office blatantly helped the Lakers in the last 5 years.

First was in 2003 when the Lakers got off to a rocky start, Shaq was injured and the team was going to only qualify for a low seed. The NBA extened the first round to 7 games - arbitrarily and in the middle of the season.

The next was in 2004. The T-wolves (my team) were the number one seed. The Lakers were already qualified for the Conference championship, while the Kings had taken Minnesota to 7. The League had the conference finals start the day after the T-wolves seventh game. The wolves were tired and flat and lost that first game, and then lost the series.

So, yeah, I believe it.

By: Captain Hate

Captain Hate — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:39:21 +0000

Whether Donaghy is lying or not, Stern should lose his job. It doesn’t take a mensa to realize that Donaghy could make a claim like this and for Stern not to have done something proactively to insulate the league against this is irresponsible. Phil Jackson stated that he would prefer that the league farm out the reffing to protect itself; it’s pretty damn bad when a head coach has a more insightful solution than the commissioner and his staff of lackeys.

The last two NBA playoffs have been rife with potential corruption: The Mavs were jobbed by the refs after the first two blowouts against the Heat as Dwayne Wade went to the line continually and Nowitzki couldn’t buy a call, and Stackhouse gets suspended for a hard foul that Shaq barely felt (and iirc wasn’t called a flagrant by the game refs) after Shaq opened him up. Last year the Suns got jobbed by suspensions of players that left the bench but did nothing more after a hard foul. And this year Joey freaking Crawford was assigned a Spurs/Lakers game after being suspended for his anger management problems with Tim Duncan.

Stern, and a former sub-mediocre head coach, Stu Jackson, who inexplicably has been put in a position of responsibility, have contributed to a decline in the integrity of the game. Purportedly one of the motives for Donaghy dropping this bombshell was that, in addition to the criminal charges, the NBA was charging Donaghy a million dollars for the cost of investigating him. This from the same league that throws money away supporting the worthless WNBA. I’m hoping Cuban or somebody takes action against Stern for reducing the value of their franchises. If no owner does anything to get rid of him, they’re dumber than I thought.

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By: vnjagvet

vnjagvet — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:35:38 +0000

As a Freshman at Kansas, Wilt also ran the (then) 440 yard dash faster than all but a few men in the country. He was a phenomenal athlete.

By: Tom Sem

Tom Sem — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:33:05 +0000

Wilt was measured at 7′ 1 3/4″ and although he never fouled out he was fouled all the time because he couldn’t shoot foul shoots,worse than Shack. Boston had two guys, Jungle Jim Lusketoff and Clyde Lovellette, not sure of the spelling and their job was to foul Wilt, and they used to hack the crap out of him and he would still score 50 against them.

By: Original Pechanga

Original Pechanga — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:24:32 +0000

And raising the basket only means the big man plays a more important part. The higher the basket, the more missed shots = more rebounds.

The big guys would still dunk at 12′ high…

By: Original Pechanga

Original Pechanga — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:10:52 +0000

I have an open letter to David Stern at my blog. 14 days and counting with NO response.

By: Original Pechanga

Original Pechanga — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:09:44 +0000

Also… how amazing is it that the best center in NBA history, Wilt Champerlain never fouled out of one game? Think there wasn’t some issues with the officiating? Favoritism?

Chamberlain at 7′3″ was playing against 6′8″ centers. He didn’t need to body them to defend them. And there wasn’t as muich driving to the basket back then - especially with Chamberlain’s ability to swat the ball away.

Might seem like conspiracy but I think the situation was a little different.

ed.

By: Michael B.

Michael B. — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:22:18 +0000

And probably the most rife with steroid abuse.

By: Michael B.

Michael B. — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:18:23 +0000

Thinking out loud: I wonder what makes a “dunk” so spectacular? Anybody that can jump 30″ high can do it, provided their hands are big enough- and that includes 99% of all the thugs in the NBA.

On the other hand, picking up the speed and trajectory of a circular missle travelling 92 mph (withing inches of your head), and crushing the living shit out of it with a wooden stick… now THAT is spectacular.

In my humble opinion (and yes, I know that many disagree), baseball requires the most talent of all the 3 major US sports. The combination of hand-eye coordination, arm strength, base running, instant decision making, etc. makes it the most demanding. Unfortunately, it is also the slowest and most boring.