David Stern has passed away ;(

[Shogon]

RIP to my favorite commissioner in sports history

[FultzNationRISE]

Please refer to the thread which has already been created about this topic.*


*But disregard the

[Real14]

Mods?

[FultzNationRISE]

THIS is the one that stays up?!?



Yo that

[Shogon]

ESPN tribute... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWp_MbBSMqo

Trolling those that boo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOCHTiffWAw

His last NBA pick... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XDJECfLy0o

[ArbitraryWater]

The mods or whoever it is do an intentionally bad job to rile people up

[HitandRun Reggie]

THIS is the one that stays up?!?



Yo that’s some bullshit, mods.

Thats some real bullshit.

**** all yall ******.

It's a Stern thread. Nothing is fair. Everything is fair game.

OP is the winner just like OKaySee

[Bosnian Sajo]

Mods?

:cry:

[Real14]

ESPN tribute... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWp_MbBSMqo

Trolling those that boo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOCHTiffWAw

His last NBA pick... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XDJECfLy0o
F.uck u bitch.:coleman:

[LAmbruh]

disrespectful Knicks fans ITT :facepalm

[Kblaze8855]

[QUOTE=FultzNationRISE]THIS is the one that stays up?!?



Yo that

[Shogon]

https://www.hostpic.org/images/2001020339470100.jpeg

:roll: :roll: :roll:

[HylianNightmare]

Rip.

[Keno]

Rip.

[Real14]

https://www.hostpic.org/images/2001020339470100.jpeg
:coleman:

[Real14]

:roll: :roll: :roll:
Who told u to laugh n.igga?:biggums:

[Shogon]

Who told u to laugh n.igga?:biggums:

https://youtu.be/hWp_MbBSMqo?t=187

^ David Stern on the Knicks

[Real14]

https://youtu.be/hWp_MbBSMqo?t=187

^ David Stern on the Knicks
That was f.ucking Isiah you dumb bitch:biggums:

[Meticode]

R.I.P. to David Stern, providing one of the best NBA GIFs ever...

https://media0.giphy.com/media/9wVfv6iIIhCda/giphy.gif

Also...

"Basketball reasons."

-David Stern

[MrFonzworth]

https://www.hostpic.org/images/2001020339470100.jpeg
:roll::roll::roll:

[Airupthere]

RIP David Stern

[Gil Renard]

RIP Stern

Really hope there

[red1]

RIP. he helped turned the NBA into the greatest sports league on earth.

[red1]

Trolling those that boo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOCHTiffWAw
:oldlol:

[bison]

RIP King David

[Gotterdammerung]

RIP. he helped turned the NBA into the greatest sports league on earth.
Came in here to say this. I started watching the NBA when Stern successfully turned around the league by 1991, and enjoyed a couple of decades of unimpeachable success. His last few years did show a few missteps like the lockout and the Chris Paul thing, so that left a bad taste in many fans' mouths.

But I'll always remember Stern as the best sports commissioner I've ever seen. :cheers:

[LukeWalton]

Came in here to say this. I started watching the NBA when Stern successfully turned around the league by 1991, and enjoyed a couple of decades of unimpeachable success. His last few years did show a few missteps like the lockout and the Chris Paul thing, so that left a bad taste in many fans' mouths.

But I'll always remember Stern as the best sports commissioner I've ever seen. :cheers:
Fire Silver bring back Stern!!

[Hey Yo]

I assume that MJ and Kobe will be 2 of the pallbearers so they can give one last thanks for the riggings.


RIP Dave

[red1]

Came in here to say this. I started watching the NBA when Stern successfully turned around the league by 1991, and enjoyed a couple of decades of unimpeachable success. His last few years did show a few missteps like the lockout and the Chris Paul thing, so that left a bad taste in many fans' mouths.

But I'll always remember Stern as the best sports commissioner I've ever seen. :cheers:
nah **** the lakers they were trash that year anyways.

that was hilarious announcing the draft picks with the boos coming out like vince mcmahon swagging on the haters booing


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[ArbitraryWater]

A horrible commish who employed criminal refs (legit people who were in prison) and rigged playoff series' or at the very least allowed it to happen without backlash

May he rip

[red1]

A horrible commish who employed criminal refs (legit people who were in prison) and rigged playoff series' or at the very least allowed it to happen without backlash

May he rip
yeah the worst thing he did is encourage and promote international fans like you. I'm just kidding. :oldlol:

[bladefd]

Rest in peace, Mr Stern. You were instrumental in making the NBA a global league since the 80s. In fact, basketball was not a global game before the 1980s. Basketball continues to grow globally even today into almost every continent. :cheers: :cheers:

[Gil Renard]

A horrible commish who employed criminal refs (legit people who were in prison) and rigged playoff series' or at the very least allowed it to happen without backlash

May he rip

You speak the truth. I hope he was coherent during his final months and was able to spill the beans to someone or leave some evidence of the wrongdoing that occurred during the Jordan years and the Lakers three peat. I

[FultzNationRISE]

yeah the worst thing he did is encourage and promote international fans like you. I'm just kidding. :oldlol:

Location: Toronto


:crazysam:



:lol

[red1]

Location: Toronto


:crazysam:



:lol
hey man my team is in the league I've seen the best players play in person - and I see a Canadian flag in every arena in every NBA city. :pimp:

[Brujesino]

Rest in peace one of the best commissioners in all of sports ever.

[AlternativeAcc.]

Whatever you think you are, stern was.

[FultzNationRISE]

hey man my team is in the league I've seen the best players play in person - and I see a Canadian flag in every arena in every NBA city. :pimp:

Heh, Im just legend of joshin with ya.


Raps actually were conceived as part of a Stern initiative to dilute the league for MJ. He didnt want competition to tighten up again like it was in the 80s, lest the league suddenly having its premiere star going 1-9 all over again :(

[red1]

Heh, Im just legend of joshin with ya.


Raps actually were conceived as part of a Stern initiative to dilute the league for MJ. He didnt want competition to tighten up again like it was in the 80s, lest the league suddenly having its premiere star going 1-9 all over again :(
dude no offense I need more respect from you. raps = most certified big dick franchise in the history of sports. MJ's 72-10 "best bulls team" was shook playing against the infant first-season '95-96 raptors.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/basketball/nba/worst-beat-first-raptors-109-jordans-bulls-108/
https://www.thestar.com/sports/raptors/2016/03/19/the-day-the-expansion-raptors-brought-down-michael-jordan-and-the-bulls.html

[red1]

jordan is lucky he went up against expansion teams because he'd be 0-100 playing the modern raps.

[highwhey]

https://www.hostpic.org/images/2001020339470100.jpeg
:roll:

[sammichoffate]

POS vetoed the CP3 trade, I'll never forgive him.

[Gil Renard]

POS vetoed the CP3 trade, I'll never forgive him.

Also had the 02 and 00 WCF rigged, if we

[FultzNationRISE]

dude no offense I need more respect from you. raps = most certified big dick franchise in the history of sports. MJ's 72-10 "best bulls team" was shook playing against the infant first-season '95-96 raptors.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/basketball/nba/worst-beat-first-raptors-109-jordans-bulls-108/
https://www.thestar.com/sports/raptors/2016/03/19/the-day-the-expansion-raptors-brought-down-michael-jordan-and-the-bulls.html


Bro I'm in agreement with you, it was clearly a backfire of the league's plans. But the reason they were created in the first place was to be MJ's punching bag.

They turned out to be his body bag instead.

[sammichoffate]

[QUOTE=Gil Renard]Also had the 02 and 00 WCF rigged, if we

[Celtics 1825]

Rest in peace. Made quite a few questionable decisions during his time as commissioner but the league wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as it is today without him and he deserves a lot of credit for that.

[Gil Renard]

Thought that was Tim Donaghy and Stern was doing damage control.

No he covered it up (Donaghy admitted NBA and NBC execs were giving orders on how the series should go) and it blows my mind that they got away with rigging a championship (that’s essentially what it was) and got away with it. Can you imagine this happening with the Super Bowl or World Series? I mean, our gov basically shut down and had Congressional hearings because some baseball players used roids. It’s amazing how this got swept under the rug.

[Jasper]

comish - your a bit young to ring the buzzer to the golden gateway..

RIP dude

[Jay-B]

RIP David Stern, my condolences to your family. The NBA in the late 80

[Lebron23]

Rip to the Goat Commissioner.

[MaxFly]

RIP David Stern

[brutalBBQ]

Press F for respects.

[sportjames23]

Man, sorry to hear this. He was a huge part of my childhood, turning me into a fan of the game with his innovations in marketing players and making the game more global.

Rest in Peace, Commish. :(

[Gil Renard]

Man, sorry to hear this. He was a huge part of my childhood, turning me into a fan of the game with his innovations in marketing players and making the game more global.

Rest in Peace, Commish. :(

Jordan would be ringless if it wasn

[Round Mound]

r.i.p

[Solidape]

[QUOTE=Jay-B]RIP David Stern, my condolences to your family. The NBA in the late 80

[sportjames23]

[QUOTE=Gil Renard]Bron would be ringless if it wasn

[Gil Renard]

I know, kid. I know. :(

Bron would have 6-8 rings this decade if Stern had been commissioner and protected Bron like he did his precious Jordan. Silver has screwed Lebron big time by allowing the KD/Warriors collusion and now the obvious tampering between Clippers and Kwahit and PG. Stern was watering down the league with expansion so MJ could prosper.

[Ghost1]

can the lakers get him?

[Turbo Slayer]

Rest in peace, Stern. :(

I wish the best for you. Amen.

[DoctorP]

[QUOTE=FultzNationRISE]THIS is the one that stays up?!?



Yo that

[coin24]

RIP stern..

Sucks with silver now, slimy alien piece of shit

[StrongLurk]

Our lives are temporary and meaningless.

David Stern and some random guy or child that died are now in the same state. Dead, and will never exist again for eternity.

All we can do is try to enjoy things while alive and not focus too much on the inevitable existential dread/oblivion.

[Derka]

Rest easy, Commish!

[Jasper]

bron tribute to commish STERN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvpv43sUrq0

True man up

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Our lives are temporary and meaningless.

David Stern and some random guy or child that died are now in the same state. Dead, and will never exist again for eternity.

All we can do is try to enjoy things while alive and not focus too much on the inevitable existential dread/oblivion.

Afterlife.

[red1]

Bro I'm in agreement with you, it was clearly a backfire of the league's plans. But the reason they were created in the first place was to be MJ's punching bag.

They turned out to be his body bag instead.
:oldlol:


they put that bald dinosaur on ice


https://images.thestar.com/Of4K6W7lAZpclfLtlZ8Lrm-coaU=/400x295/smart/filters:cb(2700061000)/https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/sports/raptors/2016/03/19/the-day-the-expansion-raptors-brought-down-michael-jordan-and-the-bulls/raptors-ragout.jpg

[StrongLurk]

Afterlife.

There is no afterlife, you just tell that to yourself to make you feel better. It's silly to think there is an afterlife ONLY for humans, yet literally everything else in the universe that dies...well simply dies and never exists again.

It's obvious that once a person dies, they are gone forever. Same for all forms of life.

[ArbitraryWater]

Thought that was Tim Donaghy and Stern was doing damage control.

donaghy wasnt reffing any of those games lol

[$LakerGold]

Logged-in to say RIP Mr. Stern. Did so much for the game during his tenure.

[LAmbruh]

Logged-in to say RIP Mr. Stern. Did so much for the game during his tenure.
hey thanks for abandoning our Lakers forum


really appreciate it, mod

[bison]

Mr. Stern, a true visionary. Us Laker fans will always love you for gifting us the 2002 WCF. RIP Davin Stern, a true legend :cry:

[Doranku]

RIP David Stern. Never know what you've got til it's gone. You were a much better commissioner than Silver. Thank you for reviving the game we all love.

[tpols]

Our lives are temporary and meaningless.

David Stern and some random guy or child that died are now in the same state. Dead, and will never exist again for eternity.

All we can do is try to enjoy things while alive and not focus too much on the inevitable existential dread/oblivion.


That's not true.

You don't even know what eternity is. Everything lives, dies and is recycled.

David Stern lived his best life and was a boss, RIP.

[Jasper]

I read pretty much all of the posts and nice to see guys re: RIP

when arbitration was going on , a lot of guys on here calling Stern a scum bag.

[StrongLurk]

That's not true.

You don't even know what eternity is. Everything lives, dies and is recycled.

David Stern lived his best life and was a boss, RIP.

"David Stern" is gone forever. The "recycled" part won't mean anything for humans once we are extinct.

I understand it's hard to accept your life as temporary since it's a miracle of nature that we exist at all...all for it to last only a short while.

[Elosha]

RIP to a great commissioner.

[tpols]

"David Stern" is gone forever. The "recycled" part won't mean anything for humans once we are extinct.

I understand it's hard to accept your life as temporary since it's a miracle of nature that we exist at all...all for it to last only a short while.


and that doesnt mean dick.

you said he'll be nothing forever... but theres a billion stars out there all with rocks circling around them.

he could pop up as something better in that sense, although its unlikely for a long long while given what he achieved amongst us.

[StrongLurk]

and that doesnt mean dick.

you said he'll be nothing forever... but theres a billion stars out there all with rocks circling around them.

he could pop up as something better in that sense, although its unlikely for a long long while given what he achieved amongst us.

If you aren't sentient, then it doesn't matter what your "atoms" do after you die when referencing our experiences as humans. The things that make you "yourself", will never be able to recreate you again. Your personality is gone, your memories, etc. Did you experience the previous billions of years of the universe existing before you were alive? No? Well, that's what death will be like...except for a LOT longer. The moment you die, then everything else in the universe dies from your perspective.

If you want to act like a trillion years into the future, "David Stern" will exist again, then we will just have to disagree...maybe some of Sterns atoms will be a part of a star...

He was a good NBA commission though.

[JBSptfn]

"David Stern" is gone forever. The "recycled" part won't mean anything for humans once we are extinct.

I understand it's hard to accept your life as temporary since it's a miracle of nature that we exist at all...all for it to last only a short while.

A miracle? No, it isn't. That's impossible that life can create itself by accident. It takes more faith to believe in no afterlife.

As for David Stern, I don't want someone to die, but he was a horrible commissioner who fixed titles for MJ and the 00-02 Flukers and took the Sonics out of Seattle. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[StrongLurk]

A miracle? No, it isn't. That's impossible that life can create itself by accident. It takes more faith to believe in no afterlife.

As for David Stern, I don't want someone to die, but he was a horrible commissioner who fixed titles for MJ and the 00-02 Flukers and took the Sonics out of Seattle. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Someone felt compelled to bring out an alt?

Also, the bolded is complete crap. The building blocks for "life" are created (indescribably complex) through physics and the laws of the universe/nature. New "life" is constantly created right here on Earth all the time. Describing it as an "accident" or not is not using the appropriate frame of mind. It is a natural chain reaction.

You personally believe in the afterlife because you can't emotionally handle thinking the alternative. Religion in simply free therapy for you. To suggest it takes MORE faith to not believe in contrived, made up nonsense is a ridiculous take. Are you really trying to compare "faith" with scientific theories?

Try some critical thinking. Which "afterlife" do you believe in? There have been tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of different "afterlifes" that humans have made up over human history. It's painfully obvious this is just part of peoples survival instincts kicking in while having to face existential oblivion.

[Elosha]

Someone felt compelled to bring out an alt?

Also, the bolded is complete crap. The building blocks for "life" are created (indescribably complex) through physics and the laws of the universe/nature. New "life" is constantly created right here on Earth all the time. Describing it as an "accident" or not is not using the appropriate frame of mind. It is a natural chain reaction.

You personally believe in the afterlife because you can't emotionally handle thinking the alternative. Religion in simply free therapy for you. To suggest it takes MORE faith to not believe in contrived, made up nonsense is a ridiculous take. Are you really trying to compare "faith" with scientific theories?

Try some critical thinking. Which "afterlife" do you believe in? There have been tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of different "afterlifes" that humans have made up over human history. It's painfully obvious this is just part of peoples survival instincts kicking in while having to face existential oblivion.

Like it or not, this is most likely true. Christianity has lasted a long time for a religion for 2000 years. Think it will be around in 10,000, 100,000, 1 million years? Unfathomable, and we ourselves may be extinct in any of those time frames. But a million years is a blink of an eye for the trillions of years the universe will most likely exist.

And as much as we humans like to believe in an afterlife in which an all-powerful God is fixated on us, if an asteroid blows up earth, the universe will continue as if we never existed. We are sentient and for that we should be thankful. Doesn't mean the universe owes us sh*t.

[Jasper]

black bands are in --
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28415688/players-refs-wear-black-band-uniforms-honor-former-commissioner-david-stern

[tpols]

If you aren't sentient, then it doesn't matter what your "atoms" do after you die when referencing our experiences as humans. The things that make you "yourself", will never be able to recreate you again. Your personality is gone, your memories, etc.


Did you experience the previous billions of years of the universe existing before you were alive? No? Well...


You already contradicted yourself with that logic.

The only reason your memories are gone is because your physical brain and form is gone. It goes without saying you cant explicitly remember memories that were created in another body.

The very fact that you became something from nothing is proof that it will happen again. If you could never become something from nothing, which is what you illustrated we were before we were born, then how do you currently exist?

:confusedshrug:

[AlternativeAcc.]

You already contradicted yourself with that logic.

The only reason your memories are gone is because your physical brain and form is gone. It goes without saying you cant explicitly remember memories that were created in another body.

The very fact that you became something from nothing is proof that it will happen again. If you could never become something from nothing, which is what you illustrated we were before we were born, then how do you currently exist?

:confusedshrug:
You can't even comprehend what he's saying, which is that "you" is referring to the exact chemical makeup and biological form you currently exist as. Whether or not your atoms go on to be apart of some other life form, "you" will never exist again.

[tpols]

You can't even comprehend what he's saying, which is that "you" is referring to the exact chemical makeup and biological form you currently exist as. Whether or not your atoms go on to be apart of some other life form, "you" will never exist again.

no shit you wont be you youll be something else. you didnt get that?

he said it will be exactly how you were before you were born, forever after you die. yet... you were in that state of nothingness before you were born, and became something... so whats to stop you from becoming something else after you pass?

:hammerhead:

put your dunce cap on kid and keep up.

[AlternativeAcc.]

no shit you wont be you youll be something else. you didnt get that?

he said it will be exactly how you were before you were born, forever after you die. yet... you were in that state of nothingness before you were born, and became something... so whats to stop you from becoming something else after you pass?

:hammerhead:

put your dunce cap on kid and keep up.
You didn't exist before you were born and won't exist again after you die. You only refers to the exact human form you have now. If it's not you, then you didn't exist prior or after. Dumb ****.

[JBSptfn]

Someone felt compelled to bring out an alt?

Also, the bolded is complete crap. The building blocks for "life" are created (indescribably complex) through physics and the laws of the universe/nature. New "life" is constantly created right here on Earth all the time. Describing it as an "accident" or not is not using the appropriate frame of mind. It is a natural chain reaction.

You personally believe in the afterlife because you can't emotionally handle thinking the alternative. Religion in simply free therapy for you. To suggest it takes MORE faith to not believe in contrived, made up nonsense is a ridiculous take. Are you really trying to compare "faith" with scientific theories?

Try some critical thinking. Which "afterlife" do you believe in? There have been tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of different "afterlifes" that humans have made up over human history. It's painfully obvious this is just part of peoples survival instincts kicking in while having to face existential oblivion.

Paragraph 1: http://www.scienceagainstevolution.org/v7i3f.htm

Paragraph 2: The standard BS answer that all atheists put out there. Atheism is way more of an emotional position than Christianity. BTW, I don't consider myself religious. Jesus came to mend a broken relationship between man and God, not to start a new religion.

Paragraph 3: You are an atheist. You don't know what critical thinking is. And, what "afterlifes" are you talking about? You made that up. I only believe in the one where you spend heaven with Jesus and God when you die (and after the Great White Throne Judgement).

[StrongLurk]

Paragraph 1: http://www.scienceagainstevolution.org/v7i3f.htm

Paragraph 2: The standard BS answer that all atheists put out there. Atheism is way more of an emotional position than Christianity. BTW, I don't consider myself religious. Jesus came to mend a broken relationship between man and God, not to start a new religion.

Paragraph 3: You are an atheist. You don't know what critical thinking is. And, what "afterlifes" are you talking about? You made that up. I only believe in the one where you spend heaven with Jesus and God when you die (and after the Great White Throne Judgement).

Wow, you are so out of it and brainwashed. Just accept it man, you need religion otherwise you couldn't handle actual reality. If you were born in the Middle East, you'd most likely be brainwashed into being a Muslim. That's how fragile and circumstantial your beliefs are. If you were born 3,000 years ago, you'd certainly have different "beliefs". You said it yourself, you choose to "believe" in "heaven", and that's because you can't accept death.

But I'm sure the mods don't appreciate the side-tracking of this thread.

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

WTF happened in this thread:biggums:

RIP Stern

[Dr Hawk]

Rest in peace David.

He was the NBA commissioner when I started watching the NBA.