David Stern is the King of Town?

“Stern dismissed the idea of Nowitzki's victory prompting a change in voting to include some or all of the playoffs. It's worth noting that five of the previous seven MVPs did not lead their team to the championship; however, it had been 25 years (Houston's Moses Malone in 1981-82) since an MVP failed to win a single playoff series.”

Also provided graciously by SI, in 1974 75, MVP Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s Lakers finished a distant fourth in their division, so if the league didn’t change the MVP rules then, they sure aren’t now for the best regular-season team in the NBA’s best player. Remember kids, it’s a relatively meaningless regular season award, not a Finals MVP.

On a somewhat related note, NBA fanboy and (former) Stern suck-up Bill Simmons has written his best column since before Ralph Wiley died, rightfully taking the NBA to task for the lousy officiating, and lousy interpretation of the “Don’t leave the bench” rule as applied to Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw (and not to Tim Duncan, who did the same thing earlier in the series after a teammate received a hard, normal foul and not a cross-check).

Generally, as a follower of Godwin’s Law, I’m against all Nazi comparisons, but in this case, Len might be right with his characterization of David “Adolph” Stern. Much like the King of Town trying to eat The Cheat, David Stern has gone mad with power.

Posted 05/18/07 by Ron | Filed under: NBA

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What's interesting is that this rule basically encourages the behavior that it was created to discourage, namely using a lower-level player to take out a key player. Why settle for simply knocking out the star when you can get a few of his teammates in the process?

Instead of lamely trying to defend the fairness of the administration of this clearly useless rule, Stern should be man enough to admit that this is a rule in need of fine-tuning. He should then immediately get to work on doing said fine-tuning. There are far too many factors involved in on-court incidents such as this; you can't just apply suspensions across the board and think it's going to solve everything.

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