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David Stern Lives Up to Surname in Suspending Gilbert Arenas Indefinitely
On January - 6 - 2010
You can say this much for David Stern. He doesn't need a nickname to live up to. His own will do just fine.
Stern responded decisively to Gilbert Arenas' less-than-subtle revealing of firearms in an NBA locker room (that of the former Washington Bullets, no less) —an indefinite suspension, with Stern alluding to "perhaps worse" to come.
This shouldn't come as a surprise. Stern suspended Boris Diaw and Amare Stoudemire from a Game Five playoff game for merely leaving the bench. He felt justified in suspending Ron Artest for the rest of the 2004-05 season for wielding fists in the arena. It's no surprise the ...