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David Stern on Prime Time Sports 

Post#1 » by Huskies1947 » Tue Feb 5, 2008 9:30 pm

David Stern will be on with the Bobcat today.
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Post#2 » by The-Insider » Tue Feb 5, 2008 9:33 pm

I believe that will air at 6pm, and live on Sportsnet. So you guys don't have to wait around all show, and listen to hockey, which oh so many of you hate with a passion.
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Post#3 » by Huskies1947 » Tue Feb 5, 2008 9:42 pm

The-Insider wrote:I believe that will air at 6pm, and live on Sportsnet. So you guys don't have to wait around all show, and listen to hockey, which oh so many of you hate with a passion.


Bobcats not bad, he takes calls and so far I heard about gambling, raptors, leagues going to europe and of course the leafs.
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Post#4 » by teamLeiweke » Wed Feb 6, 2008 12:01 am

can anyoen give a summary of the interview?
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Post#5 » by 99 Problems » Wed Feb 6, 2008 12:15 am

Anybody watched this?
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Post#6 » by PopAGat » Wed Feb 6, 2008 12:17 am

Don't really listen to his show because of the fact that he thinks he knows things. He's just very critical.

Anyways, can anyone please summarize this interview?
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Post#7 » by bling_singh » Wed Feb 6, 2008 12:38 am

PopAGat wrote:Don't really listen to his show because of the fact that he thinks he knows things. He's just very critical.

Anyways, can anyone please summarize this interview?


I think he's only critical of Bettman, MLSE, and what he calls the dinosaurs running the NHL.

His sports business acumen is usually top drawer stuff, and wherever he falters his round table group more than makes up for his shortcomings. IMO his roundtable discussion is the best sports talk radio definitely in the province, wouldn't be surprised if it was the best stuff nationwide.

I used to think he was a hardass too, but if you just take the time to listen to the show over an extended period, the dude talks sense. In the end its the morons calling in sounding like idiots that ruin a good discussion. It would irritate the hell out of me if it was my show.
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Post#8 » by Franchise_411 » Wed Feb 6, 2008 1:18 am

I like Bobcat, because unlike 90% of the Raptors' TV guys and beat reporters, he doesn't sugar coat anything ...
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Post#9 » by teamLeiweke » Wed Feb 6, 2008 1:30 am

no one has a recap of the interview with David Stern?

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Post#10 » by Asterix » Wed Feb 6, 2008 2:55 am

PopAGat wrote:Don't really listen to his show because of the fact that he thinks he knows things. He's just very critical.

Anyways, can anyone please summarize this interview?

And so you don't really listen to his show, but on the other hand you want to know what he has to say? Jokes... LOL!
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Post#11 » by rapsfan8 » Wed Feb 6, 2008 5:25 pm

Alright long time reader and finally joined.

I listened to the interview and their basically wasn't much of any interest other than the last topic.

- Bob and Stern talk about their history over the years.

- Tells Stern about how surprised he is that the NBA isn't in Europe yet. Stern says the basketball infrastructure isn't up to NBA standards.

- Brunt mentions how well the NBA has moved on after the off-season scandal while the MLB and NFL still has major problems with steroids and Spygate.

-Finally McCown brings up the Heat-Hawks decision of replaying the last 50 seconds and how a listener wanted to know why the Raptors didn't get the same thing after the scorekeeper screwed up last year. McCown clearly didn't know the exact details and screwed up the question because he mentioned how it didn't really affect the outcome.

Now this bothered me because clearly it did. It was 95-93 with 23 seconds left. That means it should have been 95-95 if TJ Ford's layup counted so clearly it had a huge impact on the outcome.

-Stern really gave one of the worst answers I have heard from him saying he really doesn't remember the exact details and that it was a lot different since that bucket didn't totally change the game while the Heat losing Shaq, one of their best players, was completely unfair and so on.

Bobcat really let him off the hook by not showing him exactly how the missed basket changed everything. I would have loved to hear Stern's answer if he was really being pressed by anyone in the booth.

Anyway, that's all in the past so you can't really dwell that much on it.

-Finally one of them says they can't wait to see Stern in Toronto again and Stern says that he'll be up there for the playoffs.
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Post#12 » by theonlyeastcoastrapsfan » Wed Feb 6, 2008 5:52 pm

^ welcome, Rapsfan8. One of the best first posts I ever read.
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Post#13 » by jaketherap » Wed Feb 6, 2008 7:03 pm

rapsfan8 wrote:Alright long time reader and finally joined.

I listened to the interview and their basically wasn't much of any interest other than the last topic.

- Bob and Stern talk about their history over the years.

- Tells Stern about how surprised he is that the NBA isn't in Europe yet. Stern says the basketball infrastructure isn't up to NBA standards.

- Brunt mentions how well the NBA has moved on after the off-season scandal while the MLB and NFL still has major problems with steroids and Spygate.

-Finally McCown brings up the Heat-Hawks decision of replaying the last 50 seconds and how a listener wanted to know why the Raptors didn't get the same thing after the scorekeeper screwed up last year. McCown clearly didn't know the exact details and screwed up the question because he mentioned how it didn't really affect the outcome.

Now this bothered me because clearly it did. It was 95-93 with 23 seconds left. That means it should have been 95-95 if TJ Ford's layup counted so clearly it had a huge impact on the outcome.

-Stern really gave one of the worst answers I have heard from him saying he really doesn't remember the exact details and that it was a lot different since that bucket didn't totally change the game while the Heat losing Shaq, one of their best players, was completely unfair and so on.

Bobcat really let him off the hook by not showing him exactly how the missed basket changed everything. I would have loved to hear Stern's answer if he was really being pressed by anyone in the booth.

Anyway, that's all in the past so you can't really dwell that much on it.

-Finally one of them says they can't wait to see Stern in Toronto again and Stern says that he'll be up there for the playoffs.


Good summary and I agree with you that Bobcat really let Stern off the hook. Bobcat surely would have had time to have somebody look up the score of the Atlanta game so that he could determine that the missed basket did indeed have an impact.

On another topic, did you hear Bobcat rip into Kyprios for using a cell phone from Phoenix instead of a land line?

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