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Governors Expand Instant Replay, Discuss Jersey Advertisements
LAS VEGAS – The Board of Governors on Thursday voted to expand the use of instant replay beginning this season and indicated that advertisements on jerseys, a revolutionary idea for the league, will...
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Commissioner Stern To Exit In 2014; Silver The Choice To Take Over
NEW YORK – NBA commissioner David Stern said Thursday that he plans to step down on Feb. 1, 2014, on what would be the 30th anniversary of the date he assumed the league’s top executive position....
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Hall Of Fame Prez: Stern Big Supporter
John Doleva, president and CEO of the Hall of Fame, had this to say on the announcement that David Stern is stepping down as NBA commissioner, effective Feb. 1, 2014: “It’s been a wonderful...
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Owners Approve Grizzlies Sale
NEW YORK – The orderly and extended transition from David Stern to Adam Silver as NBA commissioner over the next 15 months rightly dominated the news coming out of the league’s Board of Governors...
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The Season Of … Uncertainty?
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS – We’ve been watching that countdown to tipoff clock on the front of NBA.com for days, weeks even, just staring at the numbers ticking away. With the ground beneath our feet...
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Veterans Day Q&A: Bernard James
The NBA continues its long history of supporting America’s service members and their families with special activities planned around Veterans Day. In a partnership with “NBA Cares Hoops for Troops”...
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Stern’s Countdown As NBA Commissioner Under Way
HOUSTON – Former Kings and Nets All-Star Otis Birdsong, at a brief ceremony Thursday afternoon extending the partnership between the NBA and the National Basketball Retired Players Association, took a...
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Kings’ Fate Dominates Stern’s Final All-Star Presser
h HOUSTON – The final All-Star press conference of NBA commissioner David Stern‘s 30-year tenure played out like so many of the others, with Stern working the room with a mix of charm, seriousness,...
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Heat Beat Spurs; It’s All In The Games
. SAN ANTONIO — We can only assume that everybody will eventually show up for a date in June. In two games this season between the two best teams in the NBA, the list of the missing could make up the...
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Seattle-Sacramento Tug O’War Gets 3 More Weeks Of Rope
NEW YORK – Calling it a “wrenching” decision, NBA commissioner David Stern told reporters Friday that the thorny issue of the Sacramento Kings’ proposed sale and relocation would be resolved within...
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Courageous Collins Breaks Barrier
Reactions around the league HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS – Jason Collins displayed his courage routinely as a big man whose specialty was fighting for space under the rim against the likes of Shaquille...
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Rockets Answer Is Growin’ In the Win
. HOUSTON – Somewhere down the line, they might look back at it like a pencil mark drawn on the garage wall. Perhaps one day they’ll pull it out of the back of the closet and shake their heads and...
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24 Second Thoughts On Game 1
. Series hub: Heat vs. Spurs 24 – Few times are filled with more excitement and dripping with anticipation than moments before Game 1 of The Finals. First, we get the lovely 12-year-old Julia Dale...
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Instant Replay Here To Stay — And Seems Likely To Grow, As Well
. SAN ANTONIO – No game in The Finals has been decided or even tilted dramatically in the final seconds by the use of the NBA’s replay rule. But some day that will happen, at which point we know these...
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Brooklyn Boos, Cheers, Visit From Dream Mark Stern’s Final Go-Round At Draft
BROOKLYN — Thursday’s NBA Draft marked the first time the Draft was held in Brooklyn, but it also signaled the final Draft for outgoing NBA Commissioner David Stern. And Stern, perhaps even more than...
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Thorn Returns As NBA ‘Top Cop,’ Jackson Steps Down After 13 Years
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. No, really. Rod Thorn, the longtime NBA and team executive who served 14 years as the league’s head of basketball operations, will return Aug. 1 with the title...
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Rule Tweaks, ‘Hornets’ Buzz Busy NBA’s Board Of Governors
x LAS VEGAS – And in a matinee clash in NBA Las Vegas summer action, it was Vespines 1, Felines 0… Actually, that’s just a fancy-schmancy way of saying that “Hornets” is back in Charlotte and...
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‘The Lockout: A Musical’ Makes Light Of NBA Business-As-Usual
Had this one been in the pile of bad plays through which Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom sifted for their surefire money-loser in “The Producers,” they might never have read down to “Springtime for...
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Failed Drug Tests Aren’t Only Teeth In NBA/NBPA Anti-Drug Program
Like the folks who run Major League Baseball, the NBA believes it has a strong, modern, effective anti-drug program. Like MLB, the NBA has worked with its players association and consulted with top...
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Silver: NBA Won’t Hold Hansen’s Sacramento Acts Against Seattle
Deputy commissioner Adam Silver says Chris Hansen’s recent tactics won’t haunt him. Sure it seems a little sleazy, writing a fat check under cover of darkness in an attempt to sabotage your...
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