As David Stern saved the shot NBA and basketball in a global force

Star of David worst day in his term of 30 years as NBA commissioner was also his best. On November 7, 1991 Stella took a plane soon from New York to Los Angeles to sit alongside Magic Johnson at a press conference, as if by magic has told the world that he was HIV positive and leaving basketball. How many people, Stern thought that Johnson would die. And on this flight, he thought about how people in basketball for the fact answer that for the loan to someone who was HIV positive his support. By the time the disease has been misunderstood and demonized. People thought that you might “catch” AIDS if anyone sweat on you. Stern had distanced from the superstar. He had moved on from Magic. But it was on that flight and Magic Johnson was back. read yesterday the medical literature, talked to experts and sent medical teams NBA, some of whom were nervous that Johnson wanted to play in the 1992 NBA All-Star Game, and the summer Olympic Games. Stern helped the owners, players, sponsors and the world about the definition of public health crisis to clarify the time. “When I announced in 1991, I had HIV, people thought that you could get the virus by shaking my hand,” he tweeted magic after Stern passed, at 77, on Wednesday after a brain hemorrhage that on December 12. “suffered when David allowed me to play in Orlando and then to play for the Olympic dream team in 1992 all star game, we were able to change the world. expand” star Basketball helped influence beyond imagination, and it is one of the most effective and successful, commissioners remain in the history of professional sports recalled. When he took over the NBA in 1984, he was entrusted with the repair of a damaged product. “We have a drug problem he had,” says NBA Hall of Famer Alex English, top scorer in 1980, focusing on rising prices of cocaine use among players. “Our image was rough. We were on tape delay. People thought the league was too black.” But to increase by stars like Johnson, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, stabilization and to see the business model NBA, the league potential within US borders, star-headed demanding fearless her voice or crossed people in the pursuit of the promotion League interest halfway out the transformation in the NBA today’s multi-billion dollar giant that is enjoyed around the world. Golden State Warriors president Rick Welts, who worked until 1999. From 1982 to star in the NBA league office, Stern called “the most important” in NBA history. “I do not think it’s an issue,” Welts said time. “With all due respect to Bill Russell, Michael Jordan and LeBron James had we not the NBA we have today without his genius. We see the results today and assume that the NBA has always been like that, if it is not natural.” And ‘moved his sheer will and determination and his incredibly difficult nature, mountains and people were given to believe by the sheer force of his personality that have gone up these giant mountain boulders. There is no one else who could have done. “Even those who met with Stern recognized as commissioner of its positive impact on the league.” David has had a global vision that recognized that technology would make the world a smaller place and the NBA was more suited to reach all continents any other sport, “Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, the star, a fine of at least 20 times during his tenure, he wrote in an email in time. Many of the sanctions that cost a bit ‘Cuban $1.9 million, gaiters Cuban issue with the referee. “Some unique insight managers, David knew how to execute on that vision,” Cuban wrote. “what has always been amazing that he never wavered no matter what address the league had other struggles. He picked it up, took the responsibility, then decided his best and always kept moving forward in the NBA. That said, what I liked most about David is that we could knock down drag out arguments over everything and still have respect for each other and still be friends. I love people and I learned a lot from him. It ‘a sad day. “Stern grew up in New Jersey, New York Knicks fans, and I closed the NBA as general counsel in 1978 by the law firm Proskauer Rose, where he was a litigator. His influence on the modern NBA began before he took over officially as Commissioner. As executive vice president of the League in 1983, he negotiated a wage pioneer cap agreement with the players that put a limit on the annual spending payroll, but also the revenue sharing between owners and players established, enable salaries to time to grow as the league is successful. “there ‘s been a long way in the league, when saving, as it allows us to attract capital for certain teams, like Denver, Indiana, Cleveland, Utah and other difficulties were” , he said the former NBA deputy commissioner Russ Granik. “Although our first salary cap was far from perfect, was an important step for the work with the players to put the championship based on solid business. “Another important step was that led to the imposition of an anti-drug agreement severe penalties for repeated violations. In 1986, for example, point guard Star All-Star Micheal Ray Richardson banned for life for using cocaine. The sanctions helped to block the use of drugs and sponsors offered the comfort that the reputation of the NBA has been rehabilitated. flow with more money in the league office, Stern could spend marketing the star player and rivalries has been fortunate to inherit as a magic bird clashes in which three Boston Celtics Los Angeles Lakers NBA Finals between 1984-1987. “Star had an army of people who have put his plan into action,” said the Englishman, who joined in the early 1990s Star in South Africa on a trip, where he met Nelson Mandela. “What he wanted to be done, he did when he walked into a room usually done,” said Rod Thorn, the executive vice president of basketball operations NBA 1986-2000. “It ‘a talent. We are talking about players with different abilities. That was a heck of an ability he had.” For example, the Olympics, when his basketball competition decided to open NBA players before the 1992 Barcelona Games they were some owners do not do it completely on board with the idea. She was worried about injuries. Some members of the media push-back offer. to win a “Dream Team” of American stars, every game by 50 points, a joke might make the competition. However, Stern has convinced the participants that Olympic participation of the NBA would have shown the product to the world outside. “No one is saying not to send his best ski jumpers Finland,” said Granik. “Because you are picking basketball?” The “Dream Team” in 1992 which featured Jordan, Bird, Magic and Charles Barkley, has inspired a generation of international athletes to swap football for basketball. The 2019 NBA plans opening night marked 108 international players from 38 countries and territories. NBA games are available on TV in more than 200 countries around the world. “When you play in the backyard and six basketball, you think in the NBA in front of friends and family a child,” the guard Oklahoma City Thunder Chris Paul, who in 2005 recorded in the NBA, serving as president of NBA players Association says TIME. “You never knew which will be played in China, or would like to play in Spain, or if you want to play in Germany and in all these different places. For guys who had no chance to know him or understand its impact on the business of the game I hope you have the chance to see it. “Some of Stern’s decisions caused a setback. In 2005, the NBA launched a dress code for the players on the bench but not in uniform; many African-American players felt aligned correctly. (Although now has become a consensus that the star “business casual” mandate a fashion revolution NBA generated). When the NBA has taken ownership of the then New Orleans Hornets (now Pelicans) temporarily placed the Star veto a trade of Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers, the team considered the critical business meddling. labor peace was heavy: a block-shortened 1999 season and set back league and tense bargaining of 2011, which resulted in a 161 days lock and the 2011-2012 season is shortened, grew particularly testy. “Do not point the finger at me,” Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade allegedly called in a meeting at the star. “I’m not your son!” “We have some interesting times, has had some interesting times” says Paul, a major player representative in the 2011 talks with a laugh. “One thing about David, wanted to give directly there. Good, bad or indifferent.” Paul says that the profits of the signed 2011 negotiations-as the record came the NBA billion to $24 is television with ESPN and Turner Sports few years eventually outweigh any hard feelings later. “Everyone had a complicated relationship with David,” Welts said that in 2011, the first major sports executive was to come as gay, unshakable with star support. “I joke used to the greatest achievement of my life was reported directly to David Stern for 17 years and make a living to tell. It was just as passionate about the things you care about himself. He would not leisestene touch. But was this incredible soft and compassionate side of him. I would come home from a hard day at work, so as to upset this guy who thinks that they are the most incompetent person in the world, and at 22.00, uncle Dave would call and ask how I was doing. And suddenly I could not wait to charge through the door in the morning to do something great. he really knew how to get the best out of people. “Star announced in 2012 that he would resign as commissioner, after completing its 30.es year on the job, in February of 2014 in a conference call that day, his epitaph was a hit. He brought to the point. “I’m not a big fan of the L-word legacy,” Stern said then. “I just want people say who led the good ship NBA through all kinds of interesting times, some choppy waters, some extraordinary opportunities and … the clock, the league has grown in popularity, it has become a global phenomenon and owners and players and fans very well. ”
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