Yahoo: David Stern's failed culture war against the San Antonio Spurs

[Yuixafun]

The only scary thing is that Stern may make it his final mission as commissioner to engineer the downfall of the Spurs by any means necessary.

That said, how the would Pop have known that out of all things, this would be the event to set Stern off? Pop's been throwing national television games like Mardi Gras beads for damn near a decade now.

Pop made all those moves so he could make this last one.

Checkmate in 4.

[JRHernandez88]

wow that might be one of the best spurs pieces I've ever read




good stuff good good stuff

[ChuckD]

The perfect thing about this whole flap-doodle is that it will be Stern's legacy. He's the cranky commish that stayed on way too long, and this nails that point to the wall.

Thanks, David. No one could possibly one up you or show you up like you just did yourself, asshat. Pop has more class in his between toes sock lint than you have ever had.

[ShoogarBear]

Ha. I came back just to see what the response to this piece was gonna be.

[KaiRMD1]

He nails it in this article. Woj always brings the goods

[Das Texan]

Yet the stupid owners don't fire him

[phxspurfan]

Great article. Clicked and shared. But what does HAM mean?

[spursparker9]

Prop to woj for writing the article and nba@yahoo for making it headline.

[Danny.Zhu]

Great read.

[TJastal]

The perfect thing about this whole flap-doodle is that it will be Stern's legacy. He's the cranky commish that stayed on way too long, and this nails that point to the wall.

Thanks, David. No one could possibly one up you or show you up like you just did yourself, asshat. Pop has more class in his between toes sock lint than you have ever had.

Now that's funny.

[Mel_13]

Great article. Clicked and shared. But what does HAM mean?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=H.A.M

[Mal]

Great read.

[DMC]

250K is a bargain for the fans the Spurs just gained by that move. However, there were probably 130 more people who saw the 4 on SW than wanted to see them in Miami.

[DMC]

Pop made all those moves so he could make this last one.

Checkmate in 4.

Or it would have been 4 if Stern knew how to play. Mate has occurred.

[roycrikside]

This article is more proof to what I've been saying. Refs ed us against OKC and it's gonna be same thing this year. Does anyone expect the Spurs to get a fair shake in the playoffs? Not a chance. Any series against OKC, LAL or LAC will be 5-on-8 and they'll be done. It's rigged. It's wrestling.

If the team wants to win a le, Manu, Tim and Tony should stage a fake fight on center court and pretend to hate each other and argue about wives and girlfriends and shots and minutes for the next four months.

[urunobili]

Best Spurs related article of the year so far..

[Brazil]

another article from the washington post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...into-a-fiasco/

with an interesting quote from Silver

Silver takes over when Stern steps down in February 2014, but he already stated last April that the league would not discipline teams for the practice.
“The strategic resting of particular players on particular nights is within the discretion of the teams,” Silver said then. “And Gregg Popovich in particular is probably the last coach that I would second-guess.”

[Brazil]

[COLOR=#333333 !important]Adrian Wojnarowski

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@WojYahooNBA[/COLOR]
Front office executive just texted on Spurs: "Watch, Joey Crawford will do the Memphis game now."

[Brazil]

[Samr.]

doing my part:

Samreinhart:

http://tinyurl.com/csz25xs $tern fines Spurs $250k for almost beating a flagship team with scrubs #nbacares #aboutimage #adulttempertantrums

[ChuckD]

doing my part:

Samreinhart:

http://tinyurl.com/csz25xs $tern fines Spurs $250k for almost beating a flagship team with scrubs #nbacares #aboutimage #adulttempertantrums

You forgot the most important one for an old man: #adultdiapers

[CaptainLate]

This article is more proof to what I've been saying. Refs ed us against OKC and it's gonna be same thing this year. Does anyone expect the Spurs to get a fair shake in the playoffs? Not a chance. Any series against OKC, LAL or LAC will be 5-on-8 and they'll be done. It's rigged. It's wrestling.

To show how corrupted it all is, there is not one referee, past or present, who will come forward to expose this multi-billion dollar business. No one has any courage. Society heads faster into . Maybe Adrian Woj will be contacted by "Deep Throat" and things can turn around. Probably not...so fans should take comfort in knowing that all will be revealed on Judgment Day.

[Darkwaters]

Woj is such a great NBA reporter. Yahoo! Sports really is a class act and actually does investigative sports journalism.

[MR-Clutch]

This can't help our cause http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/...-on-halloween/

[Slomo]