David Stern Interview with Jim Rome (and he really gets defensive )

[Pound4Pound]

http://thebiglead.fantasysportsven.n...avid-Stern.mp3

Youtube version:



Question starts right around 7:38 minute mark.

Rome: You know New Orleans won the draft, which of course produced the usual round of speculation that maybe the lottery was fixed. I know that you appreciate a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, was the fix in for the lottery?

Stern: You know, I have two answers for that. I'll give you the easy one. No and a statement, "Shame on you for asking.".

Rome: I understand why you would say that to me and I wanted to prep by saying it respectfully, I think it's my job to ask because people wonder.

Stern: No it's ridiculous.

Rome: I know that you think it's ridiculous, but I don't think the question is ridiculous cause I know people think that. I'm not saying that I do, but I think it's my job to ask you that.

Stern: Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

Rome: Yeah, I don't know if that's fair. I don't know if that's fair.

Stern: Why's that?

Rome: Because I think that there is... and I know you read your e-mails and I'm sure you follow things virally and on twitter, people really do think it, whether it's fair or not.

Stern: Well, they think it because it's...

Rome: You don't think the question is fair to ask if your fans think it?

Stern: Silly questions. I expect it to be written about and you know, I actually I commented on my presser there was one guy who I won't dignify by name says "I have no reason to know anything and I don't know anything, but I tell you it's totally fixed." Ok, that's good, why is that?

Well if this team won it, or that team won it, it would have been a fix also. And if every team was invited and had a representative there and there were four members of the media there and the (board?) certified it. You still think yes. I guess...

Rome: I think 2 things which to respond to this. Number one, I don't think so. I don't think so and I'm not covering myself. I don't think so, but by asking the question would not suggest that I think so. But the one thing I would say, the league does own the team, does it not?

Stern: Yes

Rome: Does that not make the question fair?

Stern: I don't think so. Number 1, we sold and we're going to close it this week. We have already established our price. I think that if we had... that if it had gone to Michael Jordan, which was the next team up in terms of high percentage, Stern was taking care of his friend Michael and if it would have went to Brooklyn which is going to Bradley Center would have taken Brooklyn off of the mat. There's no winning.

And people write about it. It's okay to write about it. We sort of expect it, but it's not a question that I've been asked before by a respectful journalist.

blah, blah, blah....

Edit:

Stern: Well, I think I'm going to get off now and make a call to someone important like Stephen A Smith. ( )

Rome: Well, then I guess I'll go talk to someone else then.

[Pound4Pound]

Dba lawyer si David Stern? He basically violated the advice any good lawyer would give him. Sagutin mo lang kasi ang tanong and just shut up afferwards.
If the answer was "no," just say "no." All the stress and turmoil after that is pure egotistical control freak.

[Justin_C]

http://thebiglead.fantasysportsven.n...avid-Stern.mp3

Stern: Well, I think I'm going to get off now and make a call to someone important like Stephen A Smith. ( )

Good job Stephen on defending my boy Lebron? Now it's time to start a debate about how clutch my boy is to Skip?

[depayans]

pareho naman silang aholes so ok lang.

normal naman na magtaka yung mga fans sa draft. 2011 first overall ang cavs (after umalis ni lebron) kahit maliit lang chance nila then ngayon 1st overall ang hornets...dapat niexplain na lang ni stern pero si rome naman yun so ok lang bastusan sila