182 Quotes by David Stern

This is an extraordinary person who just happens to be amongst the greatest fifty in NBA history and probably the best power forward to play the game. It's been fun to be along for that ride.

We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.

The way that you will get suspended is if you flat-out refuse to do something. Teams will be responsible for enforcement. We're looking at the spirit of the law, not the letter.

I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men's game.

This a delicate subject. I would say that I see it as a potential for relocation more than for expansion. ... I think that 30 teams is enough right now.

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Although networks will continue to garner important groupings of fans, ... the inexorable march to cable is underway.

The perception problem was there, and therefore it was real, ... We were focusing on that issue even before the brawl, but it certainly was an exclamation point in terms of perceptions of NBA players. We've got to do a better job of both acknowledging it and working to correct it.

a merger between the basketball capital of the world and the entertainment capital of the world.