Grantland: "[The League] knew L.A. would never get past us."

lnchan · Feb 22, 2019

Old article... on a much older topic... but Stern does know where the bodies are buried in this league. And in this era... Lebron will still get Anthony Davis, the Lakers won't stay down for long... and the Rockets will still be victims. That being said... do not be Steve Francis and don't be an "alcoholic."

http://grantland.com/features/an-or...on-ralph-sampson-1980s-houston-rockets/#fn-34

Reid: They were leaving the club and this guy came up and told them, “Hey, man, I’ve got something outside. This is the good ****. It’s the best. Just take a little bump.” And they told me, they took a little bump. The next day, [former NBA security chief] Horace Balmer and them are at practice. They were there at 9 a.m. when we started practice. You cannot leave New York City in the morning to be in Houston that early in the morning. So you would have had to be there the night before. I knew then. I knew then that they got set up.
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Thomas: They were just young guys and it was those times, I guess. I think they helped clean the league up. They don’t give them credit for that, do they? When you take two key guys off a potential championship team, I guess that got a lot of young people’s attention.

McCray: When the call came down that they were gone for two years,37 it was like, “Wow.” It was a shock. I really can’t describe the word.

Reid: They broke that team up. They did what they wanted to do.
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Reid: They broke us up intentionally because they wanted Bird and Magic. They knew L.A. would never get past us
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