Who elected David Stern commissioner of the NBA?

Question

Owners? Some NBA board of directors? How did he get his job? Don't be nasty now. And don't give me any Wiki answers, please.

Jeff: Amazing, isn't it? BTW, I didn't see your question about female Spurs fans or I would have answered it. Sorry.

(F)akers: You weasel. I shoulda known you'd pull this. lol

Answer 1

It was close. But the Florida vote had to be recounted several time because of dangling chads. The Supreme Court ruled in his favor before all votes could finally be tallied.

Answer 2

David Joel Stern (born on September 22, 1942) is an American lawyer, who has been commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) since 1984, when, via a successful coup d'etat he wrestled control from the previous commissioner, Larry O'Brien.

Answer 3

I believe that he was elected by the owners, and when I say believe I mean that I know the owners were involved I just don't know if anyone else was involved in the election process. The owners had to approve him, however, and that was done via a vote.

Notice, by the way, how I didn't put any garbage answer about Florida, or insult people's momma's or just not answer the question. It's cause I have CLASS.

Answer 4

Are you being critical of him?? I may actually agree with you for once.

KG, take a look at the ratings. He has done a HORRIBLE job. Ratings for the Finals have been sliding every single year, and look at them for this year...

Game 1 - down 19% from last year
Game 2 - down 30% from last year
Game 3 - down 20% from last year

How much longer can that continue? How can you say he's done a good job??? No one watches the NBA anymore.

Answer 5

How I feel about David Stern is both positive and negative...

...Stern is a marketing genius turning the #4 sport of 4 major American sports into the #1 world wide sport with significantly much more international popularity that MLB, the NFL, and the NHL combined. You have to hand it to Stern on that.

...you have to hand it to Stern that he stood up to Michael Jordan in his prime and suspended Jordan from the NBA for 2 years after repeated warnings of Jordan's association with northeast underworld types and Jordan's excessive gambling. And, don't tell me that Jordan retired for 2 years to spend more time with his family in Chicago as Jordan drove around on a minor league bus to a bunch of small American cities for 2 years playing minor league baseball which Jordan was kind of forced to do to keep Jordan in the public eye because of Jordan's Nike contract as a retired Jordan meant no Nike contract. Jordan just didn't say to himself, I am tired of basketball and my $30 million a year plus Nike contract and will retire and risk it all to go play minor league baseball i his 30s. Jordan had his a-- suspended for 2 years by David Stern. I guess Stern did not want a Pete Rose incident in the NBA with MJ, but MJ thought that he ruled the NBA like he ruled the Bulls, but the joke was on MJ...

...see, I truly feel that Stern selected himself as "global dictator of the NBA" with unlimited powers and without much backbone as witnessed by Stern's change in plans to attend a Second round playoff game in Phoenix about a month ago as all of a sudden after Amare and Boris were suspended, Stern found that he had other personal matters to tend to which changed his travel plans to Phoenix to watch the Spurs versus Phoenix series.

Truthfully, I don't know how he got his job, but obviously, Stern enjoys the POWER, the Prestige, and the Position as "global dictator of the NBA" and most likely will have to be pried out of that position sometime between now and 2020 or 2025 by a crow bar.

But, you have to admit that Stern is a marketing genius while I am totally against the upcoming second generation synthetic basketball as the decades old NBA leather basketball still has at least one more game left in its life before it too is suspended by Stern for "P.C." reasons to try to attract the 1 1/2 billion people in India into the NBA "global marker".

I am sure that the NFL would ever give up the "pig skin" to try to break into the market in India.

P.S. As far as Florida 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court had nothing to do with the election as if you read the Constitution that each state has to certify its "electors" which Jeb did in full compliance with all court rulings. If you read the Constitution, you will find that if there were any questions that it would have been the U.S. Senate which would have determined the 2000 election and not a Florida governor or the U.S. Supreme Court. Interesting stuff if you read the Constitution of the United States of America... and had there been an issue or a question about the 2000 vote, then, it would have gone to the U.S. Senate which at the time was 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans with the President of the Senate being the tie breaking vote. Of course the President of the Senate is the Vice President of the United States who was during this time of the controversy none other than Vice President Al Gore. Hmmm... I wonder which way in a 50-50 Senate vote, how VP Al Gore would have cast his vote in a tie breaker to determine the winner between Al Gore and George W. Bush... so, if you go back and read your Constitution, you will find some real interesting stuff. As the U.S. Senate never voted on the issue, the 2000 election whether you are a Democrat, Republican, independent, or hate politics was not decided by the U.S. Supreme Court as the U.S. Supreme Court only ruled on a motion brought by VP Al Gore's lawyers which had nothing to do with determining either the outcome of the Presidential election or how Florida's electors were certified by the governor of Florida. Interesting stuff in the Constitution, but I have an idea how Al Gore would have voted to break the 50 Democrat Senators and 50 Republican Senators vote in November or December, 2000 if the issue advanced to the U.S. Senate. But, the issue was a non-issue, so it did not. Kind of like someone saying on here on another question that Cleveland should protest to the NBA over the last shot of the game wanting the NBA to determine that there was a three shot foul committed... although, the person wanting Cleveland to protest never discussed how the protest would have been worked out on a game which already had ended and was in the books.

Answer 6

yo momma... hehehe... i think the board of directors... i think hes done a nice job... people need to understand... his job demands it for him to be what he is... if was being a complete dooshbag, or an idiot, he woulda been sacked by now... but hes still here which means hes been doing a good job... infact, a great job... NBA has been expanding worldwide ever since he came to the league...


dunno how many time i have to say it but, people expect to watch high flyers and sinking three pointers... not suffocating defense... so, the finals ratings have gone down, so freakin what? its not sterns fault that people wanna watch reality shows about fat people.. ratings have fallen in US, but they are rising abroad... like in Europe and Asia... so i guess that would make up for the loss of ratings... dunno man, i think hes done a great job by being a solid stone of a man... sticking to the rules and all... but this coming from a dude whose favorite finals series was the SA vs Detroit...

Answer 7

George W. Bush

Answer 8

i don't know but he's been president of NBA more than 15 years.

Answer 9

I don't know, someone Jewish most likely, don't they run everything in this country but don't put any money back into it, since they pick up pennies up off pavement.

Answer 10

um.

rich texan oil owners?


seems like it...