newsday.com - 10/24/2008
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The sky is not falling on the NBA , commissioner David Stern said yesterday while making reassuring comments about the league's economic prospects during his annual preseason conference call with the media. "If you are alive in this world and you have access to that ancient form of communication ...
benssunsblog.blogspot.com - 10/21/2008
nba.com - 10/24/2008
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nba.com —
The fragile state of the economy, domestically and
abroad, dominated the conversation during NBA commissioner David Stern's...
annual season tip-off conference call with reporters Thursday afternoon. The chat, however, didn't expose any dire financial forecasts for the league heading in the ...
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Stern says NBA not yet feeling economic pinch
seattlepi.nwsource.com - 10/24/2008
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seattlepi.nwsource.com —
A new tax-diversion plan could give the city
the $75 million it needs to get the ball...
rolling on a KeyArena renovation and, eventually, the return of the NBA to Seattle.
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A new NBA team here?
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Economic Crisis Reaches Doorstep of NBA Fans
The Sporting Blog —
No one really likes to talk or think about the economy. It's boring, confusing, and until that thing happens to you, can remains remarkably abstract. Then there's that moment where it really rips into your life, you realized you're effed, and all of a sudden, you realize why it's supposedly the number one issue in this year's election (even if no one understands it beyond their own front door).
With this passage from Ken Berger, I think I just reached that god-awful place:
But one team executive told Newsday yesterday that owners are worried ...
NBA Owner Lobs a Preemptive Cannonball at Players Union, Mentions the Word 'Lockout'
FanHouse —
... A word that will send shivers through any die-hard sports fan's body -- "lockout" -- finds its way into Ken Berger's Newsday story about the impact of the economic downturn on the NBA. An anonymous owner spits it out amid a warning shot concerning the current collective bargaining agreement, which ends in 2011. ...
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Commissioner Stern: Top players will stay here
nba.com 10/24/2008 — NEW YORK -- The NBA will keep going to Europe, perhaps soon for real games, and David Stern isn't concerned his best players might decide to stay there. Although Stern said logistics would make an All-Star game in Europe difficult -- he said players ...
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network.nationalpost.com 12/12/2008 — In an interview with ESPN's Bill Simmons, NBA commissioner David Stern made a surprising, Canadian admission — the league screwed up in Vancouver. Simmons asked Stern what his biggest regret during his tenure as head of the league would be and Stern ...
NBA Layoffs
redsarmy.wordpress.com 10/14/2008 — Remember when I questioned how the economy might affect ticket sales and sports as a whole?
Here’s one way: The NBA is laying 80 people off . Oh… and season ticket sales are dropping league wide:
LONDON — The NBA is laying ...
Stern needs to stand up for fans
blogs.dailyherald.com 11/11/2008 — Two weeks into the NBA season and already I'm disgusted by a lack of respect shown to fans. I'm talking about a new trend of players on the bench feeling an inexplicable need to stand up for long stretches of games.
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NBA Dress Code Violation: David Stern
hoopheadsnorth.blogspot.com 1/28/2009 — This is David Stern @ The Rucker (Rucker Park, Harlem, NYC) Summer of 2003, rockin' the Fat Joe/Terror Squad chain. No, this is not a photoshop job. This is the real deal. Not quite sure why he's rockin' the Terror Squad Ice but this is pre-2005 NBA dress code. Maybe this was when he dropped ...
Yeah, but isn’t David Stern a Jew?
thesportsculture.com 12/11/2008 — When we tripped across Cuzoogle’s David Stern NBA Merry Christmas CD we had a good laugh.
It took research, originality and a witty sense of humor. But there’s one problem with it: David Stern is a Jew.
