OK so let me see if I follow the logic correctly:
Commissioner Stern scolds young Danny Patrick (nee: Pugh) and wacks him in the weenie over the Stoudamire-Diauw suspensions because DP wants the best players on the the court even though they violated a serious league rule, known to all players, designed to keep skirmishes from escalating into something more serious.
DP's logic: I just want to see the rule "open to interpretation" so it allows star players to violate it and still play. He doesn't want the series decided by Horry's cheap shot.
The Commisioner correctly, and in a tone dripping with condescension and sarcasm, admonishes Dan that NBA decisions should not be decided by what's best for the league economically in matter such as this.
He also realizes that the reason a generation of fans are turned off to the NBA is for just this reason. It's a star-driven league, they make the rules, they break the rules. This is how the NBA got to be the current NBA, which is to say And-1 without the annoying P.A. Announcer.
RANT ALERT:Kobe should be able to whack anyone that dares challenge his jump shot, and if he wacks an ocassional pretty, young hotel employee on the side, who cares. He's Kobe.
Iverson can palm the ball with impunity, because that's what the fans pay to see. Even Skip to My Lou from the And-1 team can release his persona and go legit in today's NBA. Anything goers.
Then, when the FIBA refs get there and call the rules as they are written, "without interpretation", the so-called "best players in the world" get routinely thumped.
Anyway back to my original point:
After the Commisioner leaves, of course young Daniel says that "Wow, the Commisioner really was defensive about his position regarding the rule and the suspensions" and concludes that this defensiveness is a sure sign that he doesn't really believe in the position he is stating.
And then today, like most days, he rips into Bonds and a caller or an e-mailer will ask him why he doesn't rip Clemens or Giambi and implies or states directly that racism is a motive.
And it occurs to me that every time I've heard that happen, that Danno gets REALLY, REALLY DEFENSIVE about the fact that not everything is racial and he himself is not a racist.
And today I just put two and two together and, OMG, Danny is trying to tell us that subconsiously, and using his logic, he might be a racist. OMG. It's as clear as a bell. Dan, this is an obvious cry for help. And you need help. Thankfully, we are a forgiving country and I'm sure you'll rebound from this around the same time Don Imus does.
That and if you've ever heard his "White Boy can play" story, You'd know the man has some serious issues. Classic White Guilt. Oh well, another boyhood hero falls by the wayside. What is this world coming to?
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