"I'm not the one who started the rumor that the Dallas Mavericks caught an officiating break Saturday in Game 3 of the Jazz-Mavs first-round series because of the globalization of the NBA." ...
"So, if there was any possibility, even a slight consideration here and there, that the Mavericks could catch a break -- that Nowitzki, for instance, could play his bull-in-a-china shop role without fear of penalty -- then those worldwide TV markets sure would appreciate it. For another couple of games or so."
You have GOT to be kidding me. I can hear it now, "Hey ref, this is Stern, you need to give a few calls to the International team, uh I mean The Mavs, tonight. That way we can milk the foreign markets." That has got to be the biggest pile bullsh!t I have ever heard!!
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