182 Quotes by David Stern

It’s not the NBA Finals, it’s not even a regular-season game. It’s the All-Star game, it’s a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let’s put it on display and have some fun.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone’s happy.

I’m working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

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.

I would say the league is viable as long as you have owners who want to continue funding losses. But it’s not on the long term a sustainable business model that we’re happy to be supporting. It needs to be reset.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it’s not about incentives.

I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there’s a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you’d think you were listening to completely different games.

Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That’s what they do; that’s their living, that’s their pride, that’s their joy. They don’t achieve that because they happen to be human.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what’s left of the season.