This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

The NBA is probably in the best shape out of the four major sports. I don't know much about the NHL though. Though he can't be credited with every single morsel of success, that the league is what it is today would seem to reflect well on him, controversies aside (Chris Paul trade, Donoughy, etc).

I’m feeling guilty that I don’t really care.

The NBA is probably in the best shape out of the four major sports. I don't know much about the NHL though. Though he can't be credited with every single morsel of success, that the league is what it is today would seem to reflect well on him, controversies aside (Chris Paul trade, Donoughy, etc).

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Probably the same way millions will feel when you go tits up

Yes it is.

When this is all over, which is not going to be for a while, Trump will be re-elected President.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

How about Chris Paul, whose trade to the Lakers, Stern vetoed in 2011 during his time as de facto owner of the New Orleans franchise (then the Hornets, now the Pelicans)? "I didn't do a great job of explaining it at the time. There was a trade that [New Orleans GM] Dell Demps wanted us to approve and I said heck no, but he had told [Rockets GM] Daryl Morey and [then Lakers GM] Mitch Kupchak he had authority to do it and he didn't. I said no. We just settled a lockout and you want me to approve a basketball trade?"

The reaction was swift but Stern held firm. "[Demps] had agreed to [trade Paul to the Lakers for] Kevin Martin and Luis Scola or something, and I said we can do better than that.... And the next trade was [to the Clippers for] Eric Gordon and Al-Farouq Aminu and what we thought was a really great draft pick, the 10th pick, which turned out to be Austin Rivers. At least those three and someone else [center Chris Kaman]. But Dell Demps is a lousy general manager and none of those players are currently with the team anymore, and he may lose Anthony Davis."

Stern continues: "I did it because I was protecting the then Hornets.... To this day everyone always asks me, 'Well why did you keep Chris Paul from going to the Lakers?' I didn't keep him. I didn't approve the trade. No team sells or trades a future Hall of Famer without the owner signing off, and I was the owner's rep. But I wasn't going to hand up Dell Demps." After this, Stern goes on for a bit before returning to what he sees as the irony. "Now when DeMarcus Cousins signs with Golden State, then the great unwashed Twitter says, 'Adam Silver should be like Stern and stop him from going.' Oh, O.K., guys, that's great! Right? That's ridiculous. Step up, strap on a set. It's stupid."

The explanation is classic Stern: an admission of error followed by a diminishment of that error and, ultimately, vindication.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

But if any sport were to do it basketball will never be that sport. Its not a competitive league and the core of their fanbase, hyper-active social media users, can only be placated at the expense of broader appeal. Overall fewer people care about the NBA now as they did fifteen years ago, but those who care more require almost constant pandering and if the NBA dares make any sort of populist pivot they'll rebel.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Bully Hendry would have signed Harper for 2.5 Billion over 30 years

EDIT: as for the Mets, how long were they on the superstation feed, I wonder? I know sometime in the early-to-mid '90s when teams all finally started taking TV seriously, MLB and the NBA started getting very cranky about the superstations and charging them fees to reach outside their territories. The Cubs started offloading games to cable in '96, I think, and the Braves started Turner South around the same time. (The Sox had always been more committed to cable anyway, as we all know.) It wouldn't surprise me if the Mets backed down from superstation telecasts earliest and hardest, effectively leaving the national WOR feed with no destination programming.

Here's Sandomir on the superstation wars from 1995, and the Mets aren't even mentioned: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/10/spor ... overs.html

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Didn’t he just get lucky? Getting Jordan after Magic/Bird. I think anyone could have grown the league with that lineup.

According to Dan Roan, Stern hated WGN Superstation.

He liked the local WGN, but not the superstation.

Anybody know why? ANybody have any details on this? Seems strange.

I would think a global guy like Stern would like the Superstation. Maybe he was jealous or somethin'. He was Jewish after all.

Did he die by chance today or did his family select this day for him to die for financial reasons?

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

he made it long enough to see CLTV died, that must have been his dying wish

Bully Hendry would have signed Harper for 2.5 Billion over 30 years