原文连结:

David Stern remembers the days when an NBA staff that numbered about two
dozen was just trying to keep some teams in existence long enough to get them
on national TV.
史腾还记得当初NBA工作人员只有20几人时，他们的工作是想办法让一些队伍继续生存下
去。
Now the former commissioner looks at a league whose 1980 championship series
was not broadcast live but now has games televised around the world, whose
players average more than $5 million a year in salary as the highest-paid
team athletes in sports, and sometimes can't believe he and his colleagues
pulled it off.
现在这位前NBA总裁回顾起1980年总冠军从完全没直播到现在全球电视都有转播，以及现在
球员薪水平均5百万美金为现代运动员上薪水平均最高。现在回想起来自己都很惊讶当初
能成就这一切。
"You can't even do justice to everything that everybody has done," Stern said
in a phone interview. "All you can do is focus on small chunks of it, but
it's great fun to contemplate how the NBA family has pulled together to be at
a place where our players are now at the top of the celebrity period.
"Pretty, pretty amazing and great."
"你现在根本无法完整说出当初是那些人是如何带领NBA走到今日的，只能一点一点的
慢慢说出。但现在回想起我们这个大家族是如何撑过来并走到现在这阶段还蛮有趣的"
It helped to have marketable stars like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael
Jordan.
But now comes an honor for the person most responsible for it.
Stern will be enshrined Friday in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of
Fame, part of a 2014 class that includes former players Alonzo Mourning and
Mitch Richmond, along with NCAA championship-winning coaches Nolan Richardson
and Gary Williams.
这一切成就了一代巨星如魔术强森、大鸟和MJ还有他们的商业价值。
而现在该是让这一切成真的人接受表扬了。
史腾将在周五的时候和Alonzo Mourning, Mitch Richmond还有带领队伍或得NCAA冠军的
教练Nolan Richardson和Gary Williams一起被入选名人堂。
Stern ended his run as commissioner after exactly 30 years on Feb. 1

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比较好奇光头王会不会进名人堂

NBA当时本来烂到快倒了，是史腾的神之行销手段才让NBA起死回生的