How to Dismantle a NBA Playoff Team

[Despot]

I don't see how it would affect non-Las Vegas games?

Anyone care to enlighten me?

[exstatic]

I don't see how it would affect non-Las Vegas games?

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Stern doesn't want it. That's all the answer you're going to find. It doesn't have to make sense. He is the law unto himself, vis a vis the NBA.

link to foxsports story

[SlasherX]

Loose to pistons in playoffs.

Lakers
Magic
Nets
Pacers

[Despot]

Stern doesn't want it. That's all the answer you're going to find. It doesn't have to make sense. He is the law unto himself, vis a vis the NBA.

I'm having to restrain myself from going off on Stern for this.
I imagine that the atmosphere in Vegas could make it more possible for a Vegas player to talk a friend on another team into throwing games. Or for an NHL type bookie ring to get started.

[exstatic]

^^^I put a link in my previous post with a foxsports story containing his quotes on the matter.

Ties between athletes and betting have always been a concern, highlighted of late by the gambling ring said to involve an assistant coach on Wayne Gretzky's team and the NHL great's wife. Before committing to Las Vegas, Stern insisted there be no betting lines on All-Star weekend events in 2007.

He said he has no problem with people legally gambling. But he stressed that the presence of gambling is the reason he can't put an NBA team there - even if Las Vegas officials eager for a major pro team hope the 2007 game will make him reconsider.

"We are not going to go there while they have betting on NBA games," Stern said.

[Despot]

After reading Stern's comments about next ASG in Vegas, I'm becoming convinced that there won't be an NBA team in Vegas anytime soon. Stern wants them to take the ENTIRE NBA book off of the wall in order to place a team there. They just won't do that. It's worth far too much money to the casinos.

I have to utterly and completely agree with you on that then. The Nevada Gambling commision, or whatever it is called, would never take the NBA off the books, Way too much money to be lost, and what would the Casinos get out of it? The same amount of people are going to go to Vegas, I can't see people traveling there just to go to an NBA game. The Casino that will undoubtedly be tied to the team is the only one that would get increased business, and all the others would lose out. And I don't see anything in it for the Gaming comission either. , Stern probably just wants a cut of the action.

[Kori Ellis]

Where (what arena) are they playing the All-Star game in Vegas?

[Despot]

http://www.nba.com/news/lasvegas_allstar.html


NBA All-Star is a week-long celebration that enables fans from around the globe to experience the thrill of the world’s greatest athletes playing the game they love while also leaving a lasting impact in the host city’s community. The week’s festivities will culminate on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007 with the playing of the 56th NBA All-Star Game at the Thomas & Mack Center. The game will be televised on TNT in the United States and will reach a worldwide television audience in more than 200 countries.

[Despot]

Me thinks UNLV plays there.