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Well that sucks, I agree with him. I think he wants to say more, but him being the commish and everything... he has to censor 95% of it. Still $perm gives out ridiculous fines and changed the game I grew up loving. I will always hate him for that.
did stern get 10 years older since the draft or have i just not been paying attention? and stern was right, lebron's demeanor on The Decision was fine but it never should have happened.
Who's he trying to fool...we all know he watched "The Decision" with a bottle of lotion and a box of tissues close at hand
I feel sorry for Stern. If he endorses the Decision, people say he's a Lebron lover. He says he doesn't like it, people say he's only doing it because he has to. People love to blame the guy at the top. Just like people love to blame Presidents( both Bush and Obama ) for every small thing that happens like the President has nothing better to do than sit around and make executive orders just to screw with you. It's no different from Stern. He has guys who handle just about 99.9% of the NBA's decisions and he comes out and makes a speech about it and people think hes some supreme overlord of the NBA.
I'm sure he's okay with the decision but he definitely didn't like "The Decision". I honestly think that if Lebron never did the TV special and released his choice through the usual means, that he wouldn't have gotten half the criticism that he's gotten. There'd still be the Super-team business that rubs some people the wrong way, but I don't think that the "Lebron betrayed Cleveland" vibe would have taken off the way that it did.
ESPN would air news about Cleveland fans running around burning LeBron James jerseys and memorabilia regardless... And then writers would coin in and eventually it would lead up to the same result. 'The Decision' only made that result appear faster...
If Stern is crazy about ratings like all the conspiracy theory folks say then I think part of him was loving every minute of "the decision" I agree with the rest of your post though 100%.
The "cave in job" that the Commish did tonight, broke the Rictor scale. But what could you expect? With the CBA up for renewal, you don't want to piss off 3 of the 5 biggest stars around. As for the fine, what did Danny Boy say against the rules? Cleveland has finished tearing down it's mural of LBJ. Is another fine coming?
In short, $perm got LerBon's back in his decision to leave Cleveland. He just didn't like the way LerBon went about it. The whole 1 hour special was unnecessary and poorly done/handled (shouldn't have happened, like others have said). He said LerBon's advisors (I'm speculating his agent) have been whispering bad advices in his ears.
Cleveland owner is an idiot. Lebron has the right to choose, and at the end of the day who cares? Kobe would still be fighting for the second round if Lakers didn't steal Gasol with the backdoor deal.
