David Stern Making Jim Rome fall back will forver be the best L given

[Sonic Boom of the South]

If I was Bron or any athlete that the media popped shyt at, I would hire private investigators to get dirt on reporters and fire back at them like this

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Rome been a clown. We all know that

Stern put the makeup on and jumped in the dumpster with him by retaliating the way he did, imo. You gotta be above it. You’re not a player or coach or GM. You’re the goddamn commissioner...

You can’t say stuff like that or lash out. You HAVE to be bland af vanilla middle aged white man at that point. Stern got super emotional. Which only leads me to believe the speculation and rumors of it being rigged even more

Dude put his cape on for Jim Rome

 

[No..Money..Mo..Problems]

The thing about Jim Rome is he tries to get under your skin while keeping a smug demeanor. He will ask some bull shyt question and than keep asking it which rubs people the wrong way.

 

[MostReal]

didn't see that one coming

 

[MostReal]

Rome deserved to get ethered because his question was dumb. LOL at just blatantly asking the commissioner if the draft lottery is fixed. The more nuanced way to ask that question would've been "People are speculating that the lottery may be fixed because the Pelicans, an NBA-owned team, got the #1 pick. How do you respond to those people?" Stern wouldn't have had an issue with it if he asked some variation of it like that.

Also, here is more of the interview, Stern ethers him with "I gotta call someone more important, like Stephen A Smith"

he really said it just like that too

 

[FLORIDA BOI]

Jim rome went after Vick hard

Meanwhile he owned race horses

 

[Copy Ninja]

One shot, one kill

 

[Spence]

went from zero to a hunnid REAL quick!!!

VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

This whole ass post

 

[intruder]

Thus why i say Stern was the GOAT commish. And honestly i really wish more players would learn from him. See he came into the interview having done his homework on Jim Rome and had the right ammunition should shyt go sour. Granted i thought it was a bit of a low blow for him to bring up Rome's personal life when Rome asked a question about the league. But as often as reporters be going at players on petty shyt or their own personal lives this would have been the perfect comeback.

All these sensitive stars like KD and others should gather information about some of these reporters that be asking smart ass questions and bring up some of their dirty laundry when they get out of line. Thus why i dont feel sorry for some of these players because they wanna get upset a reporters but they aint getting upset enough to go all out petty on them.

 

[HipHopStan]

As a person who hates Jim Rome to no end...this puts a smile on my face.

 

[Sghost597]

David Stern would be perfect on the Golden Girls.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Thus why i say Stern was the GOAT commish. And honestly i really wish more players would learn from him. See he came into the interview having done his homework on Jim Rome and had the right ammunition should shyt go sour. Granted i thought it was a bit of a low blow for him to bring up Rome's personal life when Rome asked a question about the league. But as often as reporters be going at players on petty shyt or their own personal lives this would have been the perfect comeback.

All these sensitive stars like KD and others should gather information about some of these reporters that be asking smart ass questions and bring up some of their dirty laundry when they get out of line. Thus why i dont feel sorry for some of these players because they wanna get upset a reporters but they aint getting upset enough to go all out petty on them.

Nah like what was already said,he wasn't digging up personal laundry. It was a loaded question tactic.

 

[jwinfield]

Thus why i say Stern was the GOAT commish. And honestly i really wish more players would learn from him. See he came into the interview having done his homework on Jim Rome and had the right ammunition should shyt go sour. Granted i thought it was a bit of a low blow for him to bring up Rome's personal life when Rome asked a question about the league. But as often as reporters be going at players on petty shyt or their own personal lives this would have been the perfect comeback.

All these sensitive stars like KD and others should gather information about some of these reporters that be asking smart ass questions and bring up some of their dirty laundry when they get out of line. Thus why i dont feel sorry for some of these players because they wanna get upset a reporters but they aint getting upset enough to go all out petty on them.

He wasn't actually accusing Rome of beating his wife.

He was responding to a loaded question with a loaded question.

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"You know, New Orleans won the draft lottery, which, of course, produced the usual round of speculation that maybe the lottery was fixed," Rome said. "I know that you appreciate a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy — was the fix in for the lottery?"

Stern bristled.

"Uh, you know, I have two answers for that," Stern said. "I'll give you the easy one — no — and a statement: Shame on you for asking."

After emphasizing that his line of questioning intended no disrespect, Rome noted that he still thought the question valid, since many NBA fans and observers have openly questioned the validity and purity of the lottery. This time, Stern not only bristled — he swung.

"Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Stern asked.

"Yeah, I don't know if that's fair," Rome responded. "I don't know that that's fair."

Now, there's an important point to be made here. Stern, it seems, wasn't actually asking if Rome had stopped beating his wife; he was evoking a famous logic game, a rhetorical move intended to put your opponent in an untenable position. Whether you say yes or no, you are saying that you have been beating your wife. You incriminate yourself just by participating in the exercise.

The point Stern appears to be trying to make is that, in order for him to answer Rome's question, he by necessity has to agree that the league has rigged lotteries in the past and does engage in the practice of outcome-fixing, whether or not it did in this case. It's a bit of lawyer speak from the commissioner, a Columbia Law-educated solicitor by trade whose relationship to the league began when he was retained as outside counsel nearly 50 years ago.

 

[Dorian Breh]

No this made David Stern look like the bytch we all knew him to be