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LOS ANGELES -- Despite the colossal amount of hype surrounding LeBron James and the Miami Heat this season, David Stern passed on attending the battle in Boston on Opening Night. Instead, he fulfilled his duties as commissioner by showing up for the Lakers' home opener at Staples Center. The reason was simple.
"I'm here to give out some rings," Stern said.
Stern met with the media prior to L.A.'s 112-110 victory over the Rockets, and even though he spent close to 20 minutes fielding questions on a variety of topics, there wasn't really anything earth-shattering to come of it. Stern dropped plenty of interesting bits of knowledge just a week earlier during his annual season tip-off conference call, so the amount of new information to come out of this meeting was minimal at best.
But there was the opportunity for some clarification.
One of the biggest topics of interest in the ongoing labor negotiations that Stern has addressed is the possibility of contraction. But as the commissioner was quick to point out, it's not a stand-alone item that the league wants to consider. It's just that the conversation has to happen when the subject of revenue sharing is introduced, particularly when you're talking about cutting a substantial check to a team that may not be profitable even after that level of financial assistance.
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