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Just let the commish run the country
By Marc Stein
Special to ESPN.com
Finally, friends, we have a winner. Or, at the very least, an answer for our Electoral Crisis. A two-word solution, at last, to fix the only mathematical mechanism in creation more convoluted than the NBA salary cap.
Does David Stern, center, really want an L.A.-Philly final?
The two words are . David Stern.
We present David J. Stern as your 43rd president of the United States.
We d like to, anyway. It s a little late for nominations, agreed, but it s safe to say that standard parliamentary procedure isn t exactly working, is it? So why not Stern to run a country that, according to highly placed government sources, is really dragging out the recount because nobody wants either of the actual candidates.
(Editor’s note: The most important NBA draft lottery draw for the Pistons since 1994 will take place three weeks from today, June 22. We’re taking a look at different aspects of the lottery each Tuesday until then, continuing with today’s look in the mirror at past Pistons lottery experiences.)
The Pistons have had one go-around in the lottery since the NBA revised the format for the 2019 draft and it went as expected – both according to the math and in line with the franchise’s history. In other words, the Pistons fell two spots.
They went into the lottery in the No. 5 spot with a 10.5 percent chance to land the No. 1 pick, but the odds – flattened after the 2018 draft when a groundswell of support to give more teams a better chance at a pick at or near the top of the lottery prompted change – said their most likely outcome, 27 percent, was to get the No. 7 pick.
From start to end, deep hunger and desire to be the best drove Kobe Bryant
In his NBA career, Kobe Bryant went from a brash teenager who believed he could do it all to the 20-year veteran who did.
Shaun Powell
May 12, 2021 7:27 PM
Kobe Bryant was perhaps the league s most iconic player to a generation of NBA fans and players.
“Do yourself a favor, go to Philly and watch this Kobe Bryant kid. He played with me and a bunch of NBA players all summer, and when we chose sides, he was never the last one picked.” Rick Mahorn, New Jersey Nets forward, October of 1995.
‘She’ll probably be a world champion:’ Jason Terry talks Chennedy Carter and reminisces on days with Atlanta Hawks
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It has all come full circle for Jason Terry.
21 years after the Atlanta Hawks selected the guard out of the University of Arizona with the 10th overall pick in the 1999 NBA Draft, the Atlanta Dream selected his goddaughter Chennedy Carter, a guard out of Texas A&M, with the No. 4 overall pick of the 2020 WNBA Draft.
Terry first met Carter on the AAU circuit when she was in sixth grade.
During every offseason in the latter half of his 19-season NBA career, Terry coached his daughter’s AAU program in Dallas. When his daughter’s team faced Carter for the first time, she immediately stood out.