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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.
史騰還記得當初NBA工作人員只有20幾人時，他們的工作是想辦法讓一些隊伍繼續生存下
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.
現在這位前NBA總裁回顧起1980年總冠軍從完全沒直播到現在全球電視都有轉播，以及現在
球員薪水平均5百萬美金為現代運動員上薪水平均最高。現在回想起來自己都很驚訝當初
能成就這一切。
"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."
"你現在根本無法完整說出當初是那些人是如何帶領NBA走到今日的，只能一點一點的
慢慢說出。但現在回想起我們這個大家族是如何撐過來並走到現在這階段還蠻有趣的"
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.
這一切成就了一代巨星如魔術強森、大鳥和MJ還有他們的商業價值。
而現在該是讓這一切成真的人接受表揚了。
史騰將在周五的時候和Alonzo Mourning, Mitch Richmond還有帶領隊伍或得NCAA冠軍的
教練Nolan Richardson和Gary Williams一起被入選名人堂。
Stern ended his run as commissioner after exactly 30 years on Feb. 1