tomodach10
Well-Known Member
Please take the Clippers.Can we have a team now?
Please take the Clippers.Can we have a team now?
Adam Silver should have been first.
- Mr. $tern suffers massive heart attack in his retirement home and is unable to be revived.
I'll never forget this post.....
"Yeah no shit"We would have no Thunder without David Stern. Thanks and RIP.
In some ways, I believe Stern may get a little too much credit for the NBA growth. He had a lot of things fall into his lap. (The growth of cable television. Larry, Magic and Michael).
Still, he did take full advantage of what he was given and there is no doubt how much the NBA had changed when he left compared to when he began.
I was in high school. I remember deciding games in the NBA Finals being on tape delay.
A concept that would be absolutely ludicrous to comprehend for today's generation.
And that changed under Stern.
He was at the right place at the right time but there is no denying he took advantage of the opportunity given him.
The tape delay thing just reminded me how much people forget how different the game is today. When there's these comparisons of best players ever and they count the old dude's accomplishments (Bill Russell etc) as equal to new ones (LeBron etc)
But to your original point, yeah a lot of it is luck, being in the right place at the right time. The thing is, that explains well over 50% of all successful people...presidents, sports stars, actors, even CEOs...luck is a big deal for everyone.
RIP to David Stern, he created the NBA that I loved.
I'm going to really frank here, I'm convinced that the reason the NBA isn't more popular is because most of the players are black ... and Stern helped to market the league despite that.
Of course, MJ helped as well.
In the 2000s it was doing better with Dirk, Nash dominating. The problem now is superteams.