If Another Ref Is Found Corrupt - Should Stern Resign? - Detroit Pistons Fan Community

buddahfan · #1 (**permalink**) 07-24-2007, 09:11 PM

Or should he resign anyway, like yesterday!!! Yea

Nemo · #2 (**permalink**) 07-24-2007, 09:28 PM

Might be a good job for Flip Saunders...........Or Joe Dumars...........

mikhail1973 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-25-2007, 02:32 AM

Stern should step down irregardless. His act is old. The game gets worse. In time it will catch up. You cannot have increasing revenues with product getting consistently worse.

DirtyMoney · #4 (**permalink**) 07-25-2007, 06:44 AM

What does stern have to do with corrupt referees. Are you saying the Falcons manager or coach should step down for the Vick allegations??

brofmfa · #5 (**permalink**) 07-25-2007, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by DirtyMoney

What does stern have to do with corrupt referees. Are you saying the Falcons manager or coach should step down for the Vick allegations??

Good point, wait a mintue, he didn't run the dogfight, didn'y he ?

CloudWalker · #6 (**permalink**) 07-25-2007, 10:45 AM

At least David Stern is an intelligent cat.

He handles situations like this like a pro, time in and time out.

Meanwhile Bud Selig has problems making it to the bathroom in the morning.
If he was dealing with this kind of situation he would have likely shown up to the conference half dressed.

basketbills · #7 (**permalink**) 07-25-2007, 11:00 AM

I think Stern has done a good job of damage control so far.

Interesting piece I hear on NPR about the scandal from Frank Deford. He thinks it's a lot of hype.

NPR : Gambling on the NBA, Oh My!

mikhail1973 · #8 (**permalink**) 07-25-2007, 03:10 PM

Stern may have done damage control, but he ain't fooling people that know the game.

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Remember, too, that the NBA has provided fodder for conspiracy theorists for years, from frozen draft lottery envelopes, to draft lottery ping-pong ball peculiarities, to questions of out-and-out favoritism toward stars.

Stern and his underlings spent the past couple of years nibbling around the edges of issues. He imposed a player dress code and fined Mark Cuban for %%%%%ing and mandated that his referees "T" up Rasheed Wallace more often, believing that would keep everybody in line.

Meantime, they all but ignored the one area that potentially has the greatest effect on games - the zebras.

Others have correctly pointed out that basketball is most subject to the whims of officials, simply because of the sheer volume of split-second decisions required of NBA referees during the course of a game.

Still, as much as fans griped about officials, at least there was the implied confidence that even if they made bad calls, they at least were consistently and honestly bad. No more.

Stain on the NBA -- dailypress.com

mikhail1973 · #9 (**permalink**) 07-25-2007, 03:15 PM

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I didn't think it was possible to feel sorry for David Stern, certainly the most pompous commissioner in professional sports. But seeing him trying to explain official Tim Donaghy and his betting on NBA games, including ones in which he worked ... sheesh!

Have you ever seen the commish so beaten down, so vulnerable? I thought he was going to cry, right up there on the stage. Suddenly, I quit wishing on him a pulled groin. The guy was suffering. And I don't blame him.

Major League Baseball has Barry Bonds. The NFL has Michael Vick. But for the NBA to come out with a ref possibly on the take and in hot water with the mafia ,,, that's the stuff of fiction!

If the corruption involves only Donaghy, as Stern told us roughly 17 times in a 13-minute address, the league can survive it. But do we really know he's it? Remember the scandal a few years ago, when a few officials were caught abusing their travel stipends for cash? Maybe Donaghy is the only one. But for Stern to assert that Donaghy is a rogue referee is the same as President Bush declaring the end of American-military involvement in Iraq some 1,500 days ago. Let's see what the investigation turns up, Dave, before we make that conclusion.

HeraldNet: Wow ... That was Stern??

basketbills · #10 (**permalink**) 07-25-2007, 03:25 PM

I don't want to push it under the rug like Deford:

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So now we have a situation, to listen to the Chicken Littles, where the very integrity of the National Basketball Association is being threatened because one lousy, rotten referee apparently tried to manipulate game scores

But some of these articles are making too much of it. After this plays out I hope the officiating is improved. No more "Good Old Boy" hires. Get some former players in stripes and crack down on the star calls...this could have a net positive effect.

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