David Stern Fines the Spurs $250,000

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

If the rest of the league is lucky they'll take $60 of this money and buy Stern a copy of NBA 2K13 so he can live out his dream of being able to make any player do whatever he wants whenever he wants without fucking the NBA up any worse.

[Bill_Brasky]

They should pay the fine in pennies.

[Manu-20]

If the rest of the league is lucky they'll take $60 of this money and buy Stern a copy of NBA 2K13 so he can live out his dream of being able to make any player do whatever he wants whenever he wants without fucking the NBA up any worse.

:lol

[timvp]

http://www.spurstalk.com/pop250k.jpg













































http://www.spurstalk.com/pop250k2.jpg

[SpursRock20]

^ I lol'ed

[Drachen]

^ I lol'ed
me too

[Mel_13]

This is where it appears the Spurs got in trouble (or at least where Stern found a place to say they violated the rules). It was about not notifying the league properly that certain players would not be traveling with the team to an away game.

You really just haven't got this from the very beginning. The Spurs did nothing that hasn't been done before, by multiple franchises on multiple occasions, and has been explicitly addressed by the Deputy Commissioner as a practice within the discretion of the individual clubs as recently as April of this year.

What the Spurs did differently this time was to pick a game on national TV against the defending champ and cause an aging dictator to engage in a public temper tantrum and promise "substantial sanctions" for the offense of pissing him off. I'm sure he really wanted to drop the hammer on the Spurs as an organization and Pop as an individual, but his own lawyers must have told him that he didn't have a leg to stand on as the Spurs hadn't violated any specific league rule.

In the end he couldn't completely back down and fell back on the Commissioner's general authority to fine a franchise for behavior that was against the best interests of the league. The fine was all about Stern saving face and not admitting that he had just run his mouth without due consideration and had announced a forthcoming punishment without any thoughtful examination of the circumstances.

Pop will continue to implement his plans to rest his players. Some changes will be made in the manner that it is done, but it will obvious to any informed observer that nothing really has changed. Just as any informed observer can readily see that Stern issued this fine as a result of his own animus towards Pop and the Spurs and not for any violation of any existing league rule.

[Mel_13]

:lol

Good seeing you Mel.

Likewise.

[weebo]

http://i.imgur.com/fgq97.jpg

:lmao classic

[Manu-20]

:lmao classic

LOL, I have a felling this is going to bite the spurs in the ass sometime in the near future but godam is that shit funny :lmao.

[Manufan909]

hearing JVG talking about it now. damn his truth bombs are relentless. sounds like one of us lol

What exactly did he say?

[polandprzem]

Let's win 2 more championships and get the hell out of this leauge

[ffadicted]

This is fucking shameful

[HI-FI]

What exactly did he say?
i can't remember it word for word, i was drinking, but him and Mike Breen had a heated discussion about it. JVG got fired up, saying "no you're wrong", and was essentially pissed about the scheduling and the toll that is being placed on players. He said one of the main responsibilities of a coach is pacing, how Pop knows how to pace his guys better than anyone else, and basically the league has no business getting involved from that angle.

[polandprzem]

JVG also do not like Stern and his actions.

During 2000 ASG he was not pleased with having mics attached to him. And when he was sitting on the bench he after a pause asked his assistant /I don't know who it was but nvm/ .. he asked "where are those fucking cameras?" And he found one and pointed at it.

I need to find it cause I have it on VHS

[PublicOption]

David Stern has only proven that he has a biased against San Antonio........We won 4 titles, when in fact if Stern didn't get involved, we should have won 6 or 7.

[PublicOption]

Instead of paying, the Spurs should sue that motherfucker. The referees are going to fuck the Spurs in the playoffs anyway

exactly why I think Stern just reinforced and confirmed, he and the league has always had a biased against the Spurs. Everything we always thought Stern was doing to us to promote other teams and get bigger TV contracts(by keeping us out of the finals during negotiations)has been validated by this fine.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--david-stern-stumbles-again-in-his-failed-culture-war-against-the-spurs-194828970.html

[PublicOption]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--david-stern-stumbles-again-in-his-failed-culture-war-against-the-spurs-194828970.html

[polandprzem]

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2012/11/30/spurs-fined-25000-for-resting-players/

ucanvote

[analyzed]

Based on Stern stainment the Spurs failed to inform sufficently in advance (the Heat and the NBA that they would rest the big 3. So I'm thinking what are the Spurs to do moving forward, pencil everygame and inform the NBA in the regular season that they see as a possbility for the big 3 to rest? Would this satisfy Stern's requirment ?

[easjer]

I wish the Spurs would fight this, and I wish the players union, coaches union and owners would issue statements of support, because it this is an utterly egregious infringement over team management and domain. Stern cannot be allowed to get away with it. When it occurs, against whom, and why any player is told to sit are utterly irrelevant. Either teams get to decide which of their personnel play or they don't. It is really that simple.
They can argue over whether it was a giant fuck you to Stern by Pop (ignoring precedent and legitimate team building reasons for such a choice) and they can argue about the plight of the fan (it's sad, but any reasonable fan understands both team choices/longevity and the fact that purchasing a game ticket entitles you only to see players in that team's uniform, not individual player match-ups); but everyone should be baying louder over the ridiculousness and unenforceable nature of this action and the detriment to team autonomy, as well as the massive insult to the vast majority of players in the league.

Shockingly bad decision by Stern.

[easjer]

Whether or not the players were sent home, while probably angering Stern further and fueling the sense of a fuck you gesture by Pop, is likewise irrelevant. There was a completely legitimate reason to send the players home, and that was rest and conservation if energies. Players rest more fully in their own surroundings, and returning earlier on Thursday instead of late Thursday evening and/or early Friday is allowing for better recuperation. If the argument is about the stars not playing, then it doesn't matter whether they were in the arena or no. I don't care about seeing Duncan sitting on the bench in an ill-fitting suit. If he isn't playing, his location is unimportant, as he is under no obligation to sign autographs or speak to fans before or after the game; that makes it all the same disappointment to little Johnny Spurfan or Spurfan who paid big money to see their team out of town.

Likewise, there is plenty of precedent for a player not traveling with the team on a road trip or portion of a road trip, and plenty of precedent for a player being sent home during a trip. If this going to be actionable from now on, it'll simply be the new flu-like symptoms and tendinitis. Players will be sent home with the explanation that they needed to be evaluated by the team physician or needed treatment/rehab at the team facility. So fucking stupid, Stern.

[ploto]

You really just haven't got this from the very beginning.

Actually, I totally have gotten it from the beginning. I just am not buying that what Pop did had anything at all to do with legitimately resting his players. And neither is the NBA.

Spurs fans would not be all excited about this FU to the league if they believed it had anything to do with all those guys needing rest either.

[Spur|n|Austin]

Since Holt and Stern are buddies, this could be a wink-wink fine that never sees the light of a wire transfer. In that case, this'll be brushed under the carpet.
That's a whole different can of worms.

[Obstructed_View]

David Stern has only proven that he has a biased against San Antonio........We won 4 titles, when in fact if Stern didn't get involved, we should have won 6 or 7.

Since you've gone past crossposting into the realm of spamming with this same idea, allow me to point out that he either "has a bias" or "is biased". If this is so important to you to repeat ad infinitum, at least get it right. Thank you.

[Obstructed_View]

Actually, I totally have gotten it from the beginning. I just am not buying that what Pop did had anything at all to do with legitimately resting his players. And neither is the NBA.

Spurs fans would not be all excited about this FU to the league if they believed it had anything to do with all those guys needing rest either.

Waiting for you to show me the rule that states what Pop did was wrong. I'd also like to see where he was warned any of the previous times he did this. The punishment is worded as though it was because it was done to the Miami Heat, who likely lead the league in ticket sales.

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

Actually, I totally have gotten it from the beginning. I just am not buying that what Pop did had anything at all to do with legitimately resting his players. And neither is the NBA.

Spurs fans would not be all excited about this FU to the league if they believed it had anything to do with all those guys needing rest either.

LOL if you really think the Spurs did this to fuck with the league and not because they really wanted to rest their players, then you're more full of shit than I thought you were. Of course, truth is, you don't, you're just here to gloat cause you're happy the Spurs got fined.

[Mel_13]

Actually, I totally have gotten it from the beginning. I just am not buying that what Pop did had anything at all to do with legitimately resting his players. And neither is the NBA.

Spurs fans would not be all excited about this FU to the league if they believed it had anything to do with all those guys needing rest either.


No, you haven't and now you've done what you always do and changed your position in the middle of the discussion. That's not surprising. It is a little surprising that you appear so sympathetic to Stern's acting out on his long time, and now well-documented, grudge against the Spurs organization.

[tuncaboylu]

Wow, i could f... Stern's wife for 250K.

[benefactor]

No, you haven't and now you've done what you always do and changed your position in the middle of the discussion. That's not surprising. It is a little surprising that you appear so sympathetic to Stern's acting out on his long time, and now well-documented, grudge against the Spurs organization.
She's trolling. Don't waste your keystrokes.

[johnnySpurs]

If the Spurs sent Bonner, Blair, Mills and De Colo home for rest, would the NBA have fined them $250k? I'm quite confident the answer is 'no'.

That said, I'm now expecting the league to send each team a list of 4 players who they are not allowed to sit on the same night. I'd love to see the lists for the Raptors, Bucks, Bobcats and Kings.

[polandprzem]

If the Spurs sent Bonner, Blair, Mills and De Colo home for rest, would the NBA have fined them $250k? I'm quite confident the answer is 'no'.

That said, I'm now expecting the league to send each team a list of 4 players who they are not allowed to sit on the same night. I'd love to see the lists for the Raptors, Bucks, Bobcats and Kings.

The thing was. It's not best interest for the NBA to send key players home.
Nobody gives a damn about reserves.

[Mel_13]

The thing was. It's not best interest for the NBA to send key players home.
Nobody gives a damn about reserves.

Irrelevant. It violated no NBA rule.

[polandprzem]

Irrelevant. It violated no NBA rule.

It did not.


The rule was the interest of the league, and not being able to watch the best spurs players.
What can I say - we know who Stern is.

[TJastal]

I just want to add one thing that hasn't been mentioned.

IMHO in last year's blazer game where Pop did essentially the same thing he was actually out of line in that particular instance. Maybe not to the point of deserving a fine, but perhaps a reminder of the importance of not upsetting the integrity of the game unduly. Why you ask? It was clear from the opening tip it was a last minute decision based on other reasons than rest (IMO he wanted to end the winning streak and knock his players down a peg or 2). Sad part was, he had no game plan, and the players were obviously ill prepared mentally and it showed in that is was one of the most sloppily played mismanaged out of control slapdash ugly nba games I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. Since there was no game plan or even an inkling what to run in an offensive set, every spurs player over-compensated by basically just barreling full speed straight at the rim I'm still surprised to this day no spurs came away with serious injuries that night. The result spoke for itself.. the blazer reserves wiped the floor with the spurs'.

Contrast that game with the game I saw the other night, the difference was night and day. I honestly believe Pop sincerely wanted to rest his starters and there were no other motives. The gameplan was solid, players were mentally prepared, and it showed in how they put out a very entertaining product for fans of basketball.

That said, it is thus revealed that Stern really does only care about his own ego and his pet players (Lebron/Wade) and big market teams.

[TampaDude]

http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/8638/sternpop.gif

OWNAGE! :lmao

[Captivus]

This has created a very big and strange precedent. The problem now is gonna be, who gets fined next. Because what if you rest 1 players, 2? 3? how many will be considered to the next fine?
Does it have to be a televised game? What if happens at the end of the season?
From a rule-precedent point of view this is crazy, and will create more discussion when is happens again.
I guess coaches will have to lie and say players are injured.
You see where im going with this?

[johnnySpurs]

The thing was. It's not best interest for the NBA to send key players home.
Nobody gives a damn about reserves.

The whole purpose of reserves is to provide relief for they key players. If fans had their way, and it were physically possible, Lebron, Kobe, Carmelo, Paul, Rose, etc.,. would be playing 48 minutes per night.

It is the team and the coaches responsibility to keep their players rested and healthy over the course of an 82 game season + playoffs. If that means sending home the guys that put in 30+ minutes per night a few days early over the course of a grueling road trip, then so be it. The best interest of the NBA should be that each team be as competitive as possible and do what they can to put out a team that will compete for a championship at the end of the season. Not a team that will make Stern money on a November game at the end of a ridiculous road stretch.

[CubanMustGo]

Hey, look, ploto bringing the usual irrelevancy to her anti-Spur posts. What a surprise.

[easjer]

The thing was. It's not best interest for the NBA to send key players home.
Nobody gives a damn about reserves.

Again, it is irrelevant whether people want to see reserves or not (I do, ftr, because I want to know what they can do when called on. I know what the elite players can do, and while it is a joy to watch them, occasionally seeing the remainder of the team is interesting to me as a fan). If the league is all about stars, then they need to reduce their rosters. To say that a decision that should be solely in the purview of team management is detrimental to the league is breathtakingly invasive and undermining.

As has been repeatedly pointed out, to claim that the commissioner has any right to intervene in such areas opens up a huge wealth of problems. Coaches are no longer allowed to rest players as they see fit? Are they allowed to bench players as they see fit? Are they allowed to give a scrub more minutes to boost his playing experience at the expense of a star's minutes? Will the league determine that certain players have to play a certain number if minutes, regardless of how that impacts the player, the play book, the future schedule, etc.? Is the league going to determine next that bank shots are boring and should therefore be banned as detrimental or begin mandating a certain number of dunks per game, since a player is physically capable of making them and that is what fans want/paid to see?

Where does it end? With eliminating any pretense of basketball as a competitive sport. The hand-cuffing of a coaches ability to determine his playing roster - leaving aside any other subplot of this fiasco, like scheduling, or lack of rule violations, or precedent, or grievances between Pop/Spurs and Stern, the question of why one game/set of fans matters more than any other- Stern's decision is utterly egregious and should be motivating the various unions to respond publicly.

[polandprzem]

The whole purpose of reserves is to provide relief for they key players. If fans had their way, and it were physically possible, Lebron, Kobe, Carmelo, Paul, Rose, etc.,. would be playing 48 minutes per night.

It is the team and the coaches responsibility to keep their players rested and healthy over the course of an 82 game season + playoffs. If that means sending home the guys that put in 30+ minutes per night a few days early over the course of a grueling road trip, then so be it. The best interest of the NBA should be that each team be as competitive as possible and do what they can to put out a team that will compete for a championship at the end of the season. Not a team that will make Stern money on a November game at the end of a ridiculous road stretch.

I agree

But for Stern is to make money of this game. In his opinion Pop was not fair and the fans were not happy about such decision.
So he did what he did.


he had right to make a statement, but had no right to punish the spurs

[DMC]

If they pay the fine, Holt needs to at the very least make a statement that he stands by his coaches decisions and does not feel he was wrong in any way for doing what he did in Miami.

Won't happen. The Spurs will dodge the controversy. It will be the classiest 250K payment ever made since the dawn of time itself.

[DMC]

I just want to add one thing that hasn't been mentioned.

IMHO in last year's blazer game where Pop did essentially the same thing he was actually out of line in that particular instance. Maybe not to the point of deserving a fine, but perhaps a reminder of the importance of not upsetting the integrity of the game unduly. Why you ask? It was clear from the opening tip it was a last minute decision based on other reasons than rest (IMO he wanted to end the winning streak and knock his players down a peg or 2). Sad part was, he had no game plan, and the players were obviously ill prepared mentally and it showed in that is was one of the most sloppily played mismanaged out of control slapdash ugly nba games I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. Since there was no game plan or even an inkling what to run in an offensive set, every spurs player over-compensated by basically just barreling full speed straight at the rim I'm still surprised to this day no spurs came away with serious injuries that night. The result spoke for itself.. the blazer reserves wiped the floor with the spurs'.

Contrast that game with the game I saw the other night, the difference was night and day. I honestly believe Pop sincerely wanted to rest his starters and there were no other motives. The gameplan was solid, players were mentally prepared, and it showed in how they put out a very entertaining product for fans of basketball.

That said, it is thus revealed that Stern really does only care about his own ego and his pet players (Lebron/Wade) and big market teams.

So in Portland the Spurs were basically like about 60% of the other NBA teams?

[TampaDude]

Fuck Stern.

In the ass.

With a running chainsaw.

[DPG21920]

I kind of went in on Larry Coon on Twitter for him saying he thought Spurs deserved to be punished since the fans were cheated and that they were on a slippery slope.

[ambchang]

The thing was. It's not best interest for the NBA to send key players home.
Nobody gives a damn about reserves.

All teams have to play starters for 48 minutes a game.

[polandprzem]

All teams have to play starters for 48 minutes a game.\

They do?

[TJastal]

lmao ^

[urunobili]

Let's start a Kickstarter drive to pay the fine ...

[007nites]

Now we can't sign a vet for minimum for the end of the season and playoffs.

[DesignatedT]

Were pussies if we pay this shit. Even if its some gentlemen's agreement behind the scenes were pussies for letting it look like Stern got his way.

[mudyez]

Good Chicago didn't pull Rose in an allready decided game in last years playoffs. :/

[ambchang]

Fans came to see starters, not the reserves. Therefore, the reserves shouldn't even be played. In fact, fans should determine how many minutes each player should play, because they paid money, same with the networks. They should have a voting system where each $ paid represents a vote, and networks/fans should vote ahead of time how much each player should play, and what plays should be ran.

Hey, I don't pay money to see teams shoot free throws or throw up these weakass 18 footers, I want dunks and acrobatic lay ups. I want to see a pile driver along with a .... Whoops, wrong sport.

[Obstructed_View]

Fans came to see starters, not the reserves. Therefore, the reserves shouldn't even be played. In fact, fans should determine how many minutes each player should play, because they paid money, same with the networks. They should have a voting system where each $ paid represents a vote, and networks/fans should vote ahead of time how much each player should play, and what plays should be ran.

Hey, I don't pay money to see teams shoot free throws or throw up these weakass 18 footers, I want dunks and acrobatic lay ups. I want to see a pile driver along with a .... Whoops, wrong sport.

If the Heat fans had voted who would play, then they got exactly what they wanted.

[kobyz]

this decision is very black day for the NBA, even more than the rig ref scandal, very ugly and sad to witness dictatorship...
if i'm the Spurs i'm not only appeal against the fine, i'm also demand compensation for distress and the dismissal of David Stern in the name of insanity, insincerity and incompetency!!

[99 Problems]

If the Spurs sent Bonner, Blair, Mills and De Colo home for rest, would the NBA have fined them $250k? I'm quite confident the answer is 'no'.

That said, I'm now expecting the league to send each team a list of 4 players who they are not allowed to sit on the same night. I'd love to see the lists for the Raptors, Bucks, Bobcats and Kings.



Its really caused some NBA hurt those 4 and a couple of other shoot around mates from outback Texas pushing the planets greatest team to 5 points.

[SpursRock20]

Its really caused some NBA hurt those 4 and a couple of other shoot around mates from outback Texas pushing the planets greatest team to 5 points.

http://www.sectalk.com/board/public/imported_images/api.ning.com/uh_wtf_gif.gif

[szkorhetz]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/533943_530022293677111_390744590_n.jpg

[Spurs Brazil]

Popovich ‘disappointed’ in NBA’s sanction
Posted on December 1, 2012 at 6:46 pm by Dan McCarney

Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich said he was “disappointed” with the NBA’s $250,000 fine on his organization after the decision to send four players home prior to last Thursday’s game in Miami.

“What I do from my perspective is a coaching perspective,” he said. “I think the league operates from a business perspective, and that’s reflected in the action they took. That’s that, and we move on.”

Popovich, who has rested players for a handful of other games in recent seasons, said he did not discuss with the league office how to handle similar situations in the future, nor would he say if he will change his approach.

“I don’t have a crystal ball,” he said.

He also declined to address a potential appeal, saying any further communication between the Spurs and the NBA will remain private.

“That’s not a confirmation or anything like that,” he said. “I have no idea. It’s out of my hands.”

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursnation/2012/12/01/popovich-disappointed-in-nbas-sanction/

[benefactor]

Classic Pop...unapologetic and jabbing at Stern even after the fine. Wouldn't expect anything less, tbh.

[Uriel]

I think we'll know what the truth is by the Spurs' response. If they say something like "we consider this an internal matter that will be handled within blah blah blah" that will be code that Holt isn't actually paying anything. But if their press release hints at any animosity, that means they're gonna fight it.
Based on Pop's comments today, I think it ended up being a little of both. :lol

[ace3g]

Cuban: Fine on Spurs 'absolutely' OK
http://espn.go.com/dallas/nba/story/_/id/8699650/dallas-mavericks-owner-mark-cuban-ok-san-antonio-spurs-fine-higher

[benefactor]

:lol Cuban. Pretty much expected that response from someone who doesn't really give a fuck about the Spurs or 250k.

[timvp]

Cuban couldn't even keep a straight face when agreeing with Stern. By the end, he had pretty much shifted back into reality.

[Ice009]

I agree with the fine. Pop should be fined more and suspended next time he does it.

No sitting players. Role players got overworked and look like shit.

If you want to rest healthy players then you limit minutes, but you still play them.

[Legacy]

I agree with the fine. Pop should be fined more and suspended next time he does it.

No sitting players. Role players got overworked and look like shit.

If you want to rest healthy players then you limit minutes, but you still play them.


WTF!? ... Alrighty then! :wtf


Anywho... I'm still hoping that Pop decides to appeal this BS. It is time for somebody to stand up to Stern, dammit. The NBA has become a complete joke because of that good for nothing piece of shit. Someone seriously needs to assassinate this fool.

[Ice009]

WTF!? ... Alrighty then! :wtf


Anywho... I'm still hoping that Pop decides to appeal this BS. It is time for somebody to stand up to Stern, dammit. The NBA has become a complete joke because of that good for nothing piece of shit. Someone seriously needs to assassinate this fool.

I never really agreed with sitting players in previous years and don't totally agree with it now either. Having said that though, today's Buck Harvey article may have changed my mind on it a little, after all that, Buck's article may have changed my mind on it.

[ace3g]

Pregame:
- Metta World Peace on Gregg Popovich’s fine. “He just should’ve said they had something. Flu-like symptoms.”
- More from Metta on Pop: “I love that guy. He’s got a little bit of Ron Artest in him.”



http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2012/12/game-notes-lakers-nuggets/

[timvp]

More from Metta on Pop: “I love that guy. He’s got a little bit of Ron Artest in him.”

:lmao

That's almost as good as Ron Artest on Duncan: "I remember one time Kevin Garnett was mushing him, and shoving him in the face; and Tim Duncan didn't do anything, he didn't react. He just kicked Kevin Garnett's ass and won the damn championship. You know what I'm sayin'? That's gangsta. Everybody can show emotion, dunk on somebody, scream and be real cocky; but Tim Duncan is a ... he's a pimp."

[JRHernandez88]

Lmao

Thats fkn goat quote material. Timmy D in a nutshell.

Ron Artest, real recognize real :cooldevil:rollin

[Mark in Austin]

:lmao

That's almost as good as Ron Artest on Duncan: "I remember one time Kevin Garnett was mushing him, and shoving him in the face; and Tim Duncan didn't do anything, he didn't react. He just kicked Kevin Garnett's ass and won the damn championship. You know what I'm sayin'? That's gangsta. Everybody can show emotion, dunk on somebody, scream and be real cocky; but Tim Duncan is a ... he's a pimp."

:tu one of my all-time favorite quotes about Duncan.

[ace3g]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxKFVpffbV4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-drMOHeuXIY

[JRHernandez88]

lmao @ the first commercial


based timmy da GAWD

[SA210]

:lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMU8gwoBW0s

[Manu-20]

:lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMU8gwoBW0s

LMAO real talk here.

[Splits]

:lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMU8gwoBW0s

Lefty! Finally another installment of Coach-L

[Man In Black]

Pop is well within his right to do what he did. The commish doesn't call plays, can't dictate how many times the ball goes into the post and has apologized for past scheduling discretions in the past. Think to the 08 WCF game 1. The Spurs just beat New Orleans in a game 7 of a hotly contested series.
That night, their plane was stuck on the tarmac and the entire team was forced to sleep on the plane.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3405018

Where was Stern to help with scheduling then?
I know it happened but I can't find a link about it. A few season ago, Pop went BAMA about the fact that his team got screwed by first having to play a critical playoff game late night to be followed up by another critical game early the 2 days later, so that way the marquee teams, who had been resting, could get the primo early evening time slot.

Afterwards, Stern told both Pop and the fans that while they value their partnerships with TV, the league should be looking out for it's team regardless.

I'm sure there's a link out there about it somewhere.

HOW SOON HE FORGETS! F'in LOSER.

Found it!!!


http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2006/news/story?id=2438250

NBA commissioner David Stern acknowledged that it was a mistake to schedule the San Antonio Spurs to open the Western Conference semifinals with an early game Sunday.

"If we had it to do over again, we wouldn't have acceded to the network's request on that one," Stern said on Monday night.

"We could lay it off on the network, but that's our responsibility, and we have the ability to say no. And we should have."

ABC representatives were not available for comment.

San Antonio wrapped up its first-round series in Sacramento so late Friday night that it was after midnight in Texas. The Spurs spent the night in Sacramento and didn't arrive back in San Antonio until about 3 p.m. Saturday.

They tipped off their series with Dallas at noon local time on Sunday because ABC wanted to show the Cleveland-Detroit game in the more attractive later time slot. The Cleveland-Detroit game got a rating of 3.7 -- 19 percent higher than a game in the same timeslot a year ago. ABC Sports' ratings are up 19 percent over a year ago.

Despite the short turnaround, San Antonio won the game 87-85.

F'You Dave...you still treat the Spurs like 2nd class.

[polandprzem]

Niggazz are tired man!



:lol

[pookenstein]

http://imageshack.us/a/img641/8995/35l9qvm.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/641/35l9qvm.jpg/)

[travis2]

Tim will have knee tendonitis while Manu will have back spasms.

When I originally heard the news (driving down south for some weekend hunting) my first thought was the NBA would soon find that "left patellar tendonitis" was both rampant and contagious.

[99 Problems]

Wots the NBa stance on this stuff now post Spurs quarter million? Did the nBa modified the rules? Anybody actually know?

[Spur|n|Austin]

Wots the NBa stance on this stuff now post Spurs quarter million? Did the nBa modified the rules? Anybody actually know?

Spurs were fined because they didn't notify the league until last minute. It was more of a FU from Pop which resulted in a FU from the league. Kerr let the league/media know he was resting players, which is not against league rules.

That's wot the stance is.

[99 Problems]

Spurs were fined because they didn't notify the league until last minute. It was more of a FU from Pop which resulted in a FU from the league. Kerr let the league/media know he was resting players, which is not against league rules.

That's wot the stance is.

:bobo