http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/sports/basketball/05nba.html?ref=basketball


Hollins was labeled a “disgruntled former official” whose competency eroded at the end of his career. The description came not from a bitter player or fan, but from Commissioner David Stern (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/david_stern/index.html?inline=nyt-per), who last week ripped Hollins and another former referee, Mike Mathis, for publicly criticizing the league’s officiating program.
“The N.B.A. was very good to me, and I was extremely good to them,” Hollins said yesterday in a telephone interview. “I’m not a disgruntled ex-employee. I worked 27 years in the N.B.A. I missed one game out of 27 years. If that’s not loyalty, I don’t know what is.”

More in the article.
Looks like Stern is trying to keep everything under wraps.

Nice that Stern pulls out the insults whenever he feels necessary to keep people or public perceptions in line. David Stern is the worst thing to ever happen to professional basketball.

Nice that Stern pulls out the insults whenever he feels necessary to keep people or public perceptions in line. David Stern is the worst thing to ever happen to professional basketball.

Low, you're just a disgruntled poster.



(Just testing out Stern's strategy.)

Good read. Stern is really looking like a weeny these days.:chef2:

ESPN - Adande: More free speech for referees, less Stern control - NBA (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=sternvegas)


With no less than the credibility of the sport at stake, NBA commissioner David Stern appears resistant to radical transformations.
In the first season after the Tim Donaghy scandal, it's time to drastically alter the way the NBA handles its officials. The league should think of itself as being in the same straits it faced in the dark days of the 1970s, and consider all of the ways it can promote itself to a skeptical public. The initial step will be regaining the trust in the officiating. Yet Stern, in his first extended comments since the early days of the scandal, sounded resistant to making officials more accessible or publicizing the league's evaluations of them, two steps that would help.

Low, you're just a disgruntled poster.



(Just testing out Stern's strategy.)

:rant: