Darthkiller
10-17-2008, 09:38 PM
For nba euro 08
Q. Why didn't you select any NBA teams like the Lakers or Portland, or why didn't you play against Spanish teams?
COMMISSIONER DAVID STERN: Well, on the Spanish team, I think we mentioned it, the question is, what our hosts in the Palau Sant Jordi wanted, and I think the best thing here was to continue to follow the lead of our hosts who suggested that it should be NBA team against NBA team.
I must tell you that we believe these games represent us moving past the point of simply having a player from the country in which we are playing. I think that when we bring the New Orleans Hornets who are currently sitting atop our league in first or second place on a daily basis, we are bringing an exciting team. And with Washington, which is also a playoff team, we are bringing a team with Gilbert Arenas coming back, as well; that's going to wow the fans.
Every game wizards played have been blown out loss, all the fans were bored. Not a good way to get fans to follow nba imo. Send lakers or blazers there would be much much better.
they should send the nets or rockets to china , they would get huge crowd and revenue, but instead they send two scrub teams warrior( without ellis), bucks(sux) and no one cared about them.
They send heat and nets to europe (two worst teams in the east last year)
They set up denver and suns for the first modern outdoor game and titled it stars under the stars. Denver was playing without it's two biggest stars(melo, AI) and were running mostly on bench players, suns were without best player amare and six man barbosa. Just horrible set up resulting in a pretty boring game.
Stern fails.
Q. Why didn't you select any NBA teams like the Lakers or Portland, or why didn't you play against Spanish teams?
COMMISSIONER DAVID STERN: Well, on the Spanish team, I think we mentioned it, the question is, what our hosts in the Palau Sant Jordi wanted, and I think the best thing here was to continue to follow the lead of our hosts who suggested that it should be NBA team against NBA team.
I must tell you that we believe these games represent us moving past the point of simply having a player from the country in which we are playing. I think that when we bring the New Orleans Hornets who are currently sitting atop our league in first or second place on a daily basis, we are bringing an exciting team. And with Washington, which is also a playoff team, we are bringing a team with Gilbert Arenas coming back, as well; that's going to wow the fans.
Every game wizards played have been blown out loss, all the fans were bored. Not a good way to get fans to follow nba imo. Send lakers or blazers there would be much much better.
they should send the nets or rockets to china , they would get huge crowd and revenue, but instead they send two scrub teams warrior( without ellis), bucks(sux) and no one cared about them.
They send heat and nets to europe (two worst teams in the east last year)
They set up denver and suns for the first modern outdoor game and titled it stars under the stars. Denver was playing without it's two biggest stars(melo, AI) and were running mostly on bench players, suns were without best player amare and six man barbosa. Just horrible set up resulting in a pretty boring game.
Stern fails.