Posted on 11/23/2004 10:26:44 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Did you know that before the basketball season, Indiana Pacer Ron Artest changed his jersey number to 91, the same number Dennis Rodman wore for the Chicago Bulls? Last season Artest wore 23, the number Michael Jordan wore for the Bulls. The change was telling.
Early Sunday evening, National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern, to whom image is indeed everything, announced the penalties for the players involved in the Friday night brawl between the Indiana Pacers, the Detroit Pistons, and fans in the stands at the Palace of Auburn Hills that once again tarnished the quickly-eroding image of his league.
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