Rivalries are all fun, games and awful trash talk until the NBA gets involved.
According to the New York Post's Fred Kerber, David Stern arranged a sit-down between New York Knicks owner James Dolan and Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov in an attempt to squash any beef between the two, like only an overprotective mother would:
Play nice, guys.
That essentially was the directive given to owners James Dolan of the Knicks and Mikhail Prokhorov of the Nets this past season during a meeting orchestrated by NBA Commissioner David Stern, who wanted to snuff any lingering tension between the two and prevent a full-blown feud, multiple league sources told The Post.
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The official also confirmed Stern assisted in getting the pair together in an attempt to prevent a wave of spitballs going back and forth over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.
Stern's involvement really gives credence to the whole "the NBA has gone soft" argument that's flown around these past few years. Nothing worthy of him intervening has gone down (that we know of).
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NBA Reportedly Told James Dolan, Mikhail Prokhorov to Cool Knicks-Nets Rivalry
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