David Stern's Worst Nightmare

[Ersatz]

I may be in the minority, but I could care less about steroids in professional sports.

I'm in the minority too. I'm more concerned that Stern and the owners are going to destroy the NBA because the hundreds of millions of dollars they make each year isn't enough: They also need to make the players suffer.

[Finkelskyhook]

If Stern was relatively unphased by refs fixing games, then why should a little thing like steroids bug him much?

Phenominal post.  I was going to say exactly the same thing.

[Smitty77]

Chris,

Are you implying that you think Rondo has taken or is taking steroids??  

Smitty77

[Chris]

Chris,

Are you implying that you think Rondo has taken or is taking steroids??  

Smitty77

Based on the amount of muscle he has put on since he was in college, I think he is as good a candidate as anyone.  Do I care?  No.  But if names are going to be thrown out there, his has to be one of them.

[Lucky17]

The thread title led me to assume that those pictures of Stern and Jerry Buss cavorting naked after a night of drunken debauchery had finally surfaced.

Not that there's anything wrong with drunken, naked cavorting. It's just that Jerry Buss is creepy. Ew.

[Brickowski]

Well, I personally don't care much about steroids one way or the other, but they have been banned by every sports organization worldwide. And when the baseball steroid scandal hit, sports journalists, federal prosecutors and members of congressional committees seemed to care about steroids quite a bit.

There is no Jose Canseco in basketball--yet-- and my guess is that the owners are looking the other way, just as baseball owners looked the other way when McGruire, Sosa, Palmiero and Bonds were hitting all of those home runs.

But the ability of the NBA to avoid the issue may be short-lived.

[RAcker]

Frankly, until LeCrab or Kobe the Ripper get caught using, no one will much care (i.e. congress).

Rashard Lewis is not a name well known on Capitol Hill. However, they do know a thing or two about "puppets".

[Finkelskyhook]

If something potentially or directly affects revenue, Stern will care.  Until then, it really isn't his job to care.

[Tai]

When there is enough outrage by the public to force their hands.  Considering the second best player on last years Eastern Conference Champs got suspended for PED's, and it barely registered on the radar, I think there is a long way to go before people start paying attention.

Stern is a master of spin, and sweeping things under the rug.  As long as he is in charge, I think Lebron (not to mention Perk and Rondo) will be fine.

Take this for what it's worth, but when Rashard Lewis was discussed on First Take like before the NBA season or whenever, Skip Bayless said the substance in question isn't banned in MLB, was honestly shocked the NBA bans it, and that even he's taken it since it's usually taken by older guys (why he does I forgot). The other guy Skip was debating with said that he used (uses?) the substance in question too. Shame I forgot the name. : \

Personally, I saw this as a non-issue. At worst, I can only wonder since the MLB doesn't ban it, should I worry that a lotta players in MLB uses said substance just cause the NBA banned it?

As far as I see, the NBA has little to worry about. I mean, if I'm supposed to believe Rondo or Lebron are on steroids just cause they're jacked, then I think it's a bad precedent for players who'd want to workout but fear they'll be accused of steroids if they get too jacked. I wasn't a fan on how people handled Barry Bonds on this issue, and I was just wishing they'd prove he did it, already. God Bless the NBA if they don't go down this road, too.

[Finkelskyhook]

I just hope we don't see the same  indignation and the crooked polititian with a direct conflict of interest doing a phony "investigation"  that nets nothing relevent like we saw with MLB.