";s:4:"text";s:3578:" Berenice, che fai? When Mr. Stern walked away from the league’s day-to-day operations, Mr. Silver called him “one of the founders of modern sports marketing.”, “When I arrived at the league in the early ’90s, leagues weren’t considered brands the way they are now,” Mr. Silver told reporters in 2014. As soon as he became commissioner, the N.B.A. "We are deeply saddened by the passing of NBA Commissioner Emeritus David Stern. Yet he earned his share of criticism along the way for what some saw as a dictatorial manner; he was prone to scream at the owners he was purportedly working for as well as N.B.A. One action that Stern, an outspoken commissioner, will be remembered for is his decision to veto a trade in 2011 that would have sent Chris Paul from the then-New Orleans Hornets to the Los Angeles Lakers. Many, like former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, saw Stern as a visionary. We didn't recognize that password reset code.
Our hearts are with his family & the NBA.". By the time he stepped down — having surpassed Pete Rozelle of the N.F.L. The 2010 All-Star game drew more than 108,000 fans to Dallas Cowboys Stadium, a record to watch a basketball game. Mr. Gumbel’s comments gained little traction; Mr. Stern’s reputation as “an honest broker” for his largely African-American player pool and a figure who “respects the men who play in his league and the community from which they come,” as described by the noted sports sociologist Dr. Harry Edwards, was well established by then. That was a seminal moment for me," he said in an interview with.
He oversaw the expansion of our league to Canada. And he is largely responsible for that.”. When Oscar Robertson filed a lawsuit against the NBA in the 1970s, Stern helped negotiate a settlement that both allowed the NBA's merger with the ABA and led to free agency in the league. ", The NBA wouldn't be the league it is today without Stern. David Stern, the National Basketball Association commissioner, was flanked by Hakeem Olajuwon, right, the No. "We spent countless hours in the office, at arenas and on planes wherever the game would take us. Stern suffered a brain hemorrhage on Dec. 12 and underwent emergency surgery.
Mr. Stern, he said, was one of the first “to take modern state-of-the-art marketing practices, whatever the technology happened to be at the time, and apply them to sports leagues.”. The WNBA will be forever grateful for his exemplary leadership and vision that led to the founding of our league," WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a statement.
Mr. Stern’s success stemmed from a relentless focus and a hands-on style that he had learned from working weekend shifts at his father’s Manhattan delicatessen. David had a deep love for the game of basketball and demanded excellence from those around him -- and I admired him for that. "The entire basketball community is heartbroken," the National Basketball Players Association said.