Black Adam
Cowards WILL BE cowards..
So you're suggesting there was no such thing as star favoring before Stern came in.....in 1984? Don't be obtuse. It happened in all 4 major sports.
The league got softer because the owners started paying players more money. You can't have some scrub (in hockey terms "goon") fouling star players hard, to possibly cause injury, to get them out of the game. Fans don't pay good money to see goons play. They want to see the stars play.
It's simple common sense to realize this.
er, so you're saying this WASN'T accentuated under his watch? you're saying this is no different than BEFORE he took over the league as commish in '84? ok if you say so...
look, i get what you're TRYING to say, but if you don't think that it didn't become more blatant at that point then something's wrong...