Would you trust anything David Stern says? Yeah, me neither.
CLEVELAND — NBA commissioner David Stern knows Cleveland fans are anxious about this summer and LeBron James’ pending free agency. He is rooting for the same outcome as Cavaliers fans.
“Hopefully he’ll stay,” Stern said Monday before Game 2 between Cleveland and Boston in the Eastern Conference semifinals. “That’s the way the system is designed.”
Ha, good one, David. You almost had me there. Why anyone who was essentially in charge of the NBA would want the best and most prominent player since Michael Jordan to stay out of New York or Chicago and instead stay in Cleveland is beyond me, and I guess Stern is no exception. I mean, it’s not like we’re talking about a guy who is so hungry for money and television ratings that he’d let the refs totally dictate the course of a given game so that it leads to a huge betting scandal, or fix the first ever NBA Lottery so that the New York Knicks got the first pick overall, or promote a game where rap music is blasted over arena speakers during actual gameplay. It’s not like he’s that type of guy.
Oh, wait.
