Tag: David Stern

Seattle remains on the outside looking in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1qEFPP0O14 National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver threw some ice-cold water on the possibility of his business adding two...

Canadian politicians are studying a proposal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBQr6FFhRD4 O Canada, please become a legalized sports betting country. That apparently is the rallying cry from Major League Baseball,...

Betting allowed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbkwZVbcCr4 Once the COVID-19 pandemic is contained, once there is a vaccine, once there are drug treatments available, people will return to watching National...

Canadian government is not loonie for the CFL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh_eNLT6f6I The late David Stern while he was commissioner of the National Basketball Association in the 1990s explained...

The memory lingers on.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyBBa1W0Z54&t=6s The Palace of Auburn Hills is no more. They took dynamite to the 32-year-old building in Auburn Hills, Michigan and flattened...

The NCAA's grip is slipping.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnXjGKAwkyE The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s men’s basketball division has been a major source of research and development for the National...

NEW YORK - AP - David Stern once predicted that the NBA would have a division in Europe within 10 years. A few years...

Still no European Division for North American Leagues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlYDij5Egro National Hockey League Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly envisions the day that the league will have...

FILE - In this June 7, 2009, file photo, NBA Commissioner David Stern announces Los Angeles will be the site of the 2011 NBA All-Star basketball game, at a news conference, in Los Angeles. David Stern, who spent 30 years as the NBA's longest-serving commissioner and oversaw its growth into a global power, has died on New Year’s Day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. He was 77. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

The former Commissioner of the National Basketball Association David Stern has passed away at the age of 77. Stern was the league’s boss from 1984 through...