David Stern's Remarkable NBA Legacy
The Lead
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🗓️ 2 January 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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In the wake of former NBA commissioner David Stern's death, we speak with The Athletic's David Aldridge about how Stern took a league that was at a crossroads in the early 1980s and helped transform it into the hugely successful, global enterprise that it is today.
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| 0:00.0 | There was some very sad news for basketball fans yesterday. |
| 0:09.5 | David Stern, the former commissioner of the NBA, passed away three weeks after suffering |
| 0:14.8 | a brain hemorrhage. |
| 0:16.6 | There's been a huge outpouring of support and praise for Stern, who oversaw the NBA for |
| 0:20.7 | 30 years, from 1984 to 2014. |
| 0:25.0 | The NBA wouldn't be the league it is today without David Stern, working his way up the |
| 0:30.1 | ranks. |
| 0:31.1 | The athletics David Aldridge has interviewed David Stern many times and has covered the |
| 0:35.2 | NBA for much of Stern's tenure. |
| 0:38.0 | He joins us today to look back at Stern's remarkable life and legacy. |
| 0:43.4 | Including how Stern took a league that was very much out of crossroads in the early 1980s |
| 0:49.0 | and helped transform it into the hugely successful global enterprise that it is today. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm wondering in the athletic, I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 0:56.9 | And I'm Andres Keltow. |
| 0:58.2 | It's Thursday, January 2nd, and this is the lead. |
| 1:02.4 | And just a quick heads up, this episode contains the use of an offensive racial epithet. |
| 1:07.7 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:12.2 | There was just something about the emotion and the heart of the NFL. |
| 1:17.2 | The first and the first. |
| 1:18.2 | The first and the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:21.2 | You can't play MC in the behind that. |
| 1:24.2 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
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