This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. As we were planning this year, I've never done this before, we've done it in fits and starts, but never really had a whole show devoted to honoring people who left this earth in 2020 or the previous year or the year that we are leaving and going

into another year, but I thought this was important.

You know, there's an African proverb that says until the last person says your name, you will never

die.

So in many ways this is also something that we're going to

to the annals of the history of the Karen Hunter show.

We're going to say these people's names and as a result of that also hopefully glean

some lessons from the life that they lived.

Play the intro. Remembering those who we have lost in 2020, this is in

memorial with Karen Hunter.

So we kicked off actually the first of the year we had our first death of somebody of note and anyone who's lost anyone this year

think about the person in your life that you loved as we you know name these names of people who are noteworthy I'm putting up air quotes because

everybody who lost their life who lost breath who transitioned who became an ancestor is of

note so I just want to be clear about that. But on January 1st, 2020, David Stern, the NBA commissioner,

one of the most successful NBA commissioners in the history of the league, he died at the age of 77.

He had a brain hemorrhage that he had suffered three weeks prior. His wife,

Diane, and their family were with him at his bedside when he passed over. He was commissioner

for 30 years, 3 decades, and shepherded the league into the global market.

He helped expand the NBA on the backbone of

NBA Star Players of course and highlighted by the Dream Team's impact on the Olympics

1992 to start off with. This was a visionary to say the least he also created the

W MBA which had its first season in 1997, and he also shepherded in the NBA Development

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