David Stern left a wide legacy to the NBA but the global growth of the game was his biggest accomplishment Globe_Sports
David Stern listens to questions before an NBA preseason exhibition game in 2009 between the Denver Nuggets and the Indiana Pacers at the Wukesong Arena in Beijing. Nick Nurse has quite a few reasons to be thankful for David Stern.
For all of Stern’s accomplishments – and there are many – growth of the game may be the biggest one of all. Stern turned the NBA’s all-star game – which long predated his work with the league – into a weekend festival. The slam dunk contest was added in 1984, the three-point contest in 1986, what started as the rookie game arrived in 1994 and the skills contest was born in 2003.“It was a showcase of what David Stern knew was the backbone of the NBA – its stars,” Larry Bird, the first three-point contest winner, said in 2014.
In short, the lottery allows non-playoff teams a chance to choose first in the next NBA draft. The NHL subsequently added a lottery of its own.It didn’t stop NBA teams from tanking, despite Stern’s hopes otherwise.
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