"The NBA unveiled its new game ball Wednesday, and it will be put into use at the start of the 2006-07 season.The biggest, and most important, difference is that the ball is no longer leather. Instead, it's made of a microfiber composite..."

The league also announced that it will be changing official bench chairs to new collapsable folding chairs, which are stored under the court and will make it much easier for opposing players to dash on to the court and stealthily smash their targets over the head and dash back to the bench before the victim can recognize who the culprit was.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll...606290355/1127

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Hey - just like the WWF?

Hey man, what is this WWF that you speak of???

The whole world is only now realizing what pro wrestling knew 90 years ago: fake makes more money.

Stern is exactly like Vince McMahon. He's not interested in overseeing a competition won by the best team, but making the most money for the promotion as a whole. So don't expect him to apologize for stacking the rules against the Detroits and San Antonios, any more than you'd expect Vince to apologize for Kurt Angle having to lose to some JUCO basketball dropout like the Undertaker.

Its a Wrestling corporation. WWF stands for World Wrestling Federation. For some reason I think a guy tried to sue them because he already did something like that so they changed it to WWE for World Wrestling Entertainment. Anyways the wrestlers can sneak a chair into the ring while the ref isn't looking and hit the opponent with it.

Politicians knew it way before them.

Strippers too.

Its all real man..

The promotional style is WWE-esque.

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Momma was queen of the mambo, Poppa was king of the congo, deep down in the jungle, I start banging my first bongo
Every monkey like to be, in my place instead of me, cause I'm the king of bongo baby, I'm the king of bongo bong
-Manu Chao

NO LEATHER? Sacrilege I tell you!!!

I wonder what affect it might have on NBA stats...all the way from steals to free throw percentage?