{"id":2093,"date":"2012-10-26T18:40:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T22:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2012-10-26T18:40:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T22:40:41","slug":"stern-rebuke-for-retiring-nba-commish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2012\/10\/stern-rebuke-for-retiring-nba-commish.html","title":{"rendered":"Stern Rebuke For Retiring NBA Commish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Stern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First the good.<\/p>\n

NBA commissioner David Stern has done an amazing job building the NBA into a profit and marketing machine in his nearly three decades at the helm.<\/p>\n

Stern, who recently announced he will step down from his post in early 2014, did a superb job of promoting the game’s top players over the years, like Larry, Michael and Magic, on a worldwide basis.<\/p>\n

The NBA, once in danger of not surviving has beenthriving and Stern deserves some credit for that.<\/p>\n

Now for the bad.<\/p>\n

The league has done a poor job of putting up with bad characters, most recently like the twice-suspended Delonte West and players like Rasheed Wallace, Dennis Rodman and the former Ron Artest.<\/p>\n

“World Peace”, ha! He couldn’t even be peaceful on a great Lakers team.<\/p>\n

And how about all the tattoos? Ridiculous and cruddy looking at the least on many, many players.<\/p>\n

And then buying into Jay Z, or rather allowing him to buy into the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n

Having the explicit-language using rapper be a big part of the NBA doesn’t exactly send a great\u00a0 message.<\/p>\n

I would love it someday if positive rap music made some kind of inroad into music rather than the type that puts down women and extols violence.<\/p>\n

But that’s another post entirely.<\/p>\n

For now, we’ll just wish David Stern well in his retirement.\u00a0 But here’s wishing he had been more of a moral leader of the great league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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