David Stern

If former NBA commissioner David Stern had his way, LeBron James’ “The Decision” TV special never would have happened. You all remember the moment: It was July 2010. LeBron had just wrapped perhaps the most prolific and anticipated free-agency tour ever. He went on television to cap off his process to announce that he was joining [...]

With today marking the first official day that football fans in St. Louis do not have a professional football franchise after owner Stan Kroenke was granted his wish by NFL owners yesterday to pick and move his Rams franchise back to LA, I’m sure many basketball fanatics in Seattle can relate to what many Rams [...]

“Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been,” Author and former Professor Angela Davis said during an interview in 1999. On the heels of the racially charged and offensive comments made by Nevada Cattle Rancher Cliven Bundy, [...]

Crap. Just crap. My apologies for ruining your day in advance, but according to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney—special thanks to Joe Flynn over at Bleacher Report—NBA league executives and “prominent” agents are expecting there to be another lockout in 2017: It is a little more than three years before the NBA’s current collective bargaining [...]

New Head Coach of the Brooklyn Nets Jason Kidd recently joked with Carmelo Anthony during a 9-11 dedication about changing uniforms. All Kidd-ing aside, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, and Kobe Bryant lead the list of the NBA’s free agents in the summer of 2014. Anthony’s name has been mentioned in connection with the Los Angeles [...]

Seattle narrowly missed stealing the Kings from Sacramento, but instead, they find themselves still starving for an NBA franchise. It’s unfortunate because Seattle is a great NBA town. But all may not be lost for the Emerald City. Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer, the principal investors in the attempt bring basketball back, have been in [...]

San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is currently both an NBA outlaw and, well, one helluva coach. Prior to the Spurs’ road game against the Miami Heat, Popovich made the decision to send Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker, and even sharp shooter Danny Green, back to San Antonio to rest. This was a [...]

No one saw it coming. Not the Oklahoma City Thunder, not the Houston Rockets, not David Stern himself. And yet, here we are. As Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports first reported, the Rockets and Thunder came to terms on a blockbuster deal that landed All-Star guard James Harden in Houston and volume scoring guard Kevin [...]

January 25, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Mark Cuban for years has been voicing his opinion that NBA players shouldn’t be allowed to play in the Olympics or any other international competition while they are under contract in the pro’s. Obviously that opinion is highly prejudicial from the fact that he’s an owner who looks [...]

January 20, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Say what you will about David Stern, but he’s never afraid to try a venture that may potentially help the globalization of his brand. National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern has held talks with executives at IMG Worldwide Inc. about establishing a professional league in India, two people [...]