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If someone were to run into David Stern, please slap him for me
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2694335Leather ball will return on Jan. 1
By Marc Stein
ESPN.com
NBA commissioner David Stern, in a stunning reversal, has decided to shelve the new microfiber composite basketball after just a few months of use and switch back to the old leather model for all games starting Jan. 1, ESPN.com has learned.
The decision will be formally announced by the league later this week, according to sources close to the situation.
Despite an avalanche of player complaints about the new synthetic model from the first day of training camp in October, skepticism was high among players that Stern would consent to a change during the season. But with a number of prominent players complaining of cuts on their hands caused by the new ball's high-friction cover -- Phoenix's Steve Nash and New Jersey's Jason Kidd among them -- Stern was forced to concede that an in-season swap was unavoidable with the new ball inflicting injuries.
If someone were to run into David Stern, please slap him for me
Expect an increase of scoring and a decrease of haters
In a related story:
Spaulding Sues NBA, Stern
I don't know about that - I think there will be another 1 to 2 week adjustment period for the players in January to get used to the old ball... especially on layups where the stickiness of the new ball has forced them to change how they spin it off the glass.
Welcome back.
That's what I'm concerned with.
Increase?
There's gonna be a in decrease in scoring and rebounding.
It will be very hard to have a decrease in both scoring AND rebounding.
About the only way you could do that would be to have a lot more fouls and turnovers.
I had already heard the insider news. Jonathan Chow PM'd some of us about it.
We all know NBA players, specially Barry love the ball... and with the soft bounces off the rims there has to decrease at some level.
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Maybe Finley's confidence will return...."sigh."
Sense
Was this ball really that bad or was this just a power move by the players union. And apparently scoring was up with this new ball according to every analyst i've been hearing on the tube.
Scoring Is up, but not because the ball is any better. Its because of the wierd ing bounces it gets off the rim... Shots that would NEVER go in with a leather.
IE hitting the back of the rim hard and instead of bouncing back out, it dies and drops in....
Yes!!! it's back!!!
maybe this will get Stein to calm down and quit ing around so much. What a disaster this ball was, esp for Spalding.
I wonder if the NBA is gonna let Spalding walk away? I'd like to see the ball's technical requiements in the NBA/Spalding contract.
I wonder if the NBA is try a new ball again next season?
Anybody up for adding a 4th referee?
A 4th referee? no ; good referees that actually do their jobs? yes
Yeah, it's going to be funny when scoring comes back down. At least we won't have to hear all these "new ball" excuses and tv announcers bringing it up 20,000 times per broadcast.
What an idiot. Why didn't Stern think of testing the ball out on the players first, like during preseason, to get their take on it? They are the ones who were going to use it the most anyways...
Each team was given a sample ball at the beginning of last season to use to test it.What an idiot. Why didn't Stern think of testing the ball out on the players first, like during preseason, to get their take on it? They are the ones who were going to use it the most anyways...
Representin' the cow point of view. Nice!!!
Go Cows Go!!!
I am suprised that this is changing mid-season, or early season. You would think they would at least give the new ball an entire season. I guess it's better to change the ball earlier in the season than later.
yeah, that.
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