David Stern Almost Shits Himself
Forget about game one of the Suns-Spurs series. Forget about past and future heroics of Kobe and LeBron. The greatest moment of the NBA playoffs came in tonight’s Boston-Atlanta game.
Just moments after TNT interviewed David Stern (and Stern pretended to be excited about the Hawks strong play jeopardizing his plans for a Lakers-Celtics Finals) Kevin Garnett gave Zaza Pachulia a little elbow. Pachulia did not take kindly to that elbow and jumped in Garnett’s face. Joe Johnson stepped in between them, but Sam Cassell thought Johnson was a little too aggressive and he went after him. Almost instantly all 10 players were jawing and both coaches were on the court trying to clam things down.
Right at that moment TNT cut to a shot of Stern in the crowd. I want that producer promoted. The look on Stern’s face was priceless. You knew exactly what was going through his head. Fuck. Now I have to call TNT and tell them to tell Nike we have to cancel half of their playoff adds because we need to triple the amount of “NBA Cares” commercials in order to make up for this.
Fortunately for Stern the situation was diffused, and the worst thing to come out of the night for him was the Celtics continuing to look old and unathletic.
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sanchez on 29 Apr 2008 at 2:34 pm #
i didnt see david stern but i know perkins took a step on the floor. as a supporter of the run and gun phoenix suns i claim shananigans if stern doesn’t suspend him!!!!!