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Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.
- David Stern
#Acknowledge
#Agree
#Free
#Speech
#Work
I've never found NBA owners to be deferential. I never considered them to be reliant. All that I do is knock myself out to represent their interests the best way I can and sometimes tell them, as part of my job, what they don't like to hear.
- David Stern
#Best
#I Can
#Myself
#Sometimes
#Way
Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.
- David Stern
#Everyone
#Happy
#Making Money
#Money
I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.
- David Stern
#About
#Compete
#Play
#Players
#Think
I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.
- David Stern
#Believe
#Democracy
#I Believe That
I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.
- David Stern
#Black
#Fans
#Game
#Good
#Sports
I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.
- David Stern
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#Found
#Greatest
#World Cup
#World
You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.
- David Stern
#Circumstances
#Events
#Eyes
#Ready
#Will
Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.
- David Stern
#Function
#Management
#Smart
#Wonderful
My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.
- David Stern
#Basketball
#Lawyer
#My Own
#Own
#Up
I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men's game.
- David Stern
#Age
#Game
#Men
#Tennis
#Women
I love my job. I come every day having a ball.
- David Stern
#Ball
#Day
#Every Day
#Job
#Love
It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.
- David Stern
#America
#Black
#People
#White
#Wisdom
I'm not into politics.
- David Stern
#Politics
You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.
- David Stern
#Attitude
#Baking
#Inspire
#See
#Walk
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