‘Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife Yet?’ NBA Commish Lashes Out at Host for Asking if Draft Is Fixed
- Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:39pm by
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Things became heated during an interview on “The Jim Rome Show” after Rome decided to ask NBA commissioner David Stern a question regarding the league’s draft lottery.
“You know, New Orleans won the draft lottery,” Rome said, “I know that you appreciate a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy. Was the fix in for the lottery?”
Apparently, Stern didn’t appreciate Rome’s line of questioning and responded with Groucho Marx’s classic no-win question: “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?”
Needless to say, things didn’t go very well from there, as the two argued back and forth about the legitimacy of the question (the NBA does, after all, own the New Orleans Hornets).
“It was a marked difference from the pair‘s usual collegial attitude displayed on Stern’s regular appearances on the program,” writes Deadspin’s Timothy Burke.
“Obviously Stern’s referring to the loaded question fallacy and not actually implying Rome is a domestic abuser, but would Rome’s audience get the philosophy class reference?” asks Burke.
And to be fair, as Burke notes, Rome didn’t actually ask a loaded question. He asked if and not when the lottery had been fixed. There is a difference.
Still, despite the fact that the interview is pretty awkward, we have to admit that we laughed. Not because Rome has the type of personality that practically begs to be asked trick questions, but because the interview reminds us of this.
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susanwatsonbrown
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 9:54pmHmmm…Unfortunately I believe Rome as the Western Conference Finals defied all logic. Watching those games live and the phantom calls and no calls…no team can win 5 on 8. A team with a 20 game winning streak loses 4 in a row??? NBA wanted to ensure LeBron had his title!
Report Post »jfriedri
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 7:05pmEvery time I watch an NBA playoff series I go away with the same feeling …. its all fixed. The NBA is no better than watching wrestling on TV. Ever since the Sacramento Kings got screwed the word has been out on Stein and all of his ilk. Now I only watch the NFL
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 5:20pmLebron…where is dat babys daddy?
Report Post »Blazen420
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 4:26pmDavid Stern is a liberal….You can tell because he answers questions with insults. This guy is as crooked as a dogs hind leg.
Report Post »easye2984
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 11:33amDavid Stern is an arrogant POS. How is this guy still the commissioner of the NBA? Guy needs to go already. He’s needed to go for awhile.
Report Post »tropolis
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 10:29amWhite blaze posters say nobody cares about the NBA. Look at the game 1 rating and tell me nobody cares. 11.6 rating.
Compare this to the NHL, a white dominated league that white racist blaze posters probably watch more, it got a 4.0 rating.
the kia nba pregame show got a 4.6. A pregame show beat the nhl final game 6.
Report Post »easye2984
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 11:34amWTF man? Where did race come from. Your projection is amazing!
Report Post »indy1
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 9:57amStern needs to be hazed after he made sure the Lakers wouldn’t be in the Finals by nixing the Chris Paul trade, yet allowed Miami and Boston to stockpile 3 superstars.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 7:54amStern had the same reaction as people who defend Bilderberg. Therefore, you know something is going on in the NBA. That was great when Rome brought in ‘flopping’
Report Post »ULYSSESG
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 11:40pmWhat is the NBA ? Some OPRA production? NBA ? national black association ? What is this ?
Report Post »cgnick
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 1:05amIf it was the National Bigot Association you would be a high ranking official.
Report Post »morerightrudder
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:37pmIf half the men that play in the NBA weren’t playing they would be in prison. Like watching a bunch of street thugs. The only games I like to watch are local high school games.
Report Post »bajasurfer
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:28pmHa ! Too bad Rome didn’t get to ask Stern when the NBA was going to hire more white players . And yes , nobody watches the racist NBA anyhow .
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 11:18pmI agree, I haven’t watched an NBA gam in 5 years. I can’t stand Rome either, that was kind of funny.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OPf1dK-qlE
soybomb315
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 9:06amNBA isnt what it used to be. They stopped following rules like traveling (I see it on just about every play) and they give their star players special treatment on the court. The Republican party has had the same problems – forgotten about the constitution for far too long and our country has suffered.
Report Post »wakeus_com
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:24pmA smarmy, smug twerp talking to a midget moron. YAWN.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 8:08amreminds me of the Romney vs Santorum agruments
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:11pmRome is on fire! If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen, David.
Report Post »AnAmerican111
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 9:49pmNBA…..Who cares!
Report Post »Lost all respect for the NBA since Lebron James showed up!
Bunch of over paid whiners with God given athletic ability!
Nobody cares and nobody watches!
cgnick
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 1:07amWhat do you have against capitalism?
Report Post »120pages
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 9:40pmAt least he didn’t call him Chris Evert…
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 9:05pmI wouldn’t watch an NBA game if you paid me…….PERIOD !
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:44pmno one give s a rat s azz about eh NBA, i wish it was took off tv before i puke in my shoe
Report Post »JustJason
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:38pmRome has been a punk his entire career. He is lucky this QB pushed him instead of punch him.
Those who bark, have no bite.
http://youtu.be/dOVxitMy47c
Report Post »Turin
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:14pmAgree, Rome is a complete classless punk. He’s the D. Wade of announcers minus talent.
Report Post »FatFreedom
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:40pmThis for posting the video showing what a little wimpy person Rome is. I never liked him. He reminds me of the idiot voter that has enabled the descent of our nation.
Report Post »ObamaH8SAmerica
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:33pmDavid the dictator Stern is a complete jackass. If he didn’t fix the lottery, why would he act like a teenage bully on a national radio show? Jim was giving him the opportunity to clear the air and simply say “No, it is not fixed, that’s absurd.” That’s it, then move on. Instead David the dictator acted like an idiot like he did when he 86ed the Chris Paul trade, fixed the Ewing trade, tried to get professional adult basketball players to play with a rubber basketball, implement the WNBA that no one watches, and now give the NBA’s team the lottery pick.
Whats next Dave, you going to have a ref fix the calls of a game? Oh wait that happened. What if we ask you about it, are u going ask us if we abuse our children?
Report Post »Incredulous321
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 5:24amFor those here asking who watchs B-Ball, I do! I hope the Thunder knocks the snot out of the Heat. What should I watch instead, the primetime soap Dallas? Stern is going senile, and I don’t have time for sports talk shows. I already spend way too much time on the computer and watching news, and doing school work. Some B-Ball, or Hockey, or football is a good break from wanting to pull my hair out, and with the exception of Barkley and Van Gundy the lib and racist talk is kept to a minimum.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:22pmJim Rome is highly respectable in the biz. It wasn’t like Rome tossed the question at Stern like a wet fish or anything. Stern became salty afterwards, but his response has usually been something of the effect of “That’s nonsense, of course not.”. But today, you’d think somebody gave him a wedgie and lit a stink bomb underneath him. Very condescending today, Mr. Stern was…
Report Post »cgnick
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 1:09amRome asked a generic question. Stern should have answered with a generic “of course not” and left it at that.
Report Post »Watermain
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:37pmDoes anyone really give a sh*t about the NBA?
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:30pmWho cares? It’s the NBA. Nobody watches that anymore.
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:40pmWhat is happening to men accused of domestic violence is no joke. The radical feminist, Obama administration works overtime to drive dads from their kids lives then hypocritically pretends it cares about fatherhood and families.
Marxist-Leninism has historically supported the break up of traditional families, with the driving out of dads as its primary goal. Joe Biden‘s Violence Against Women Act has been one of the main weapons in the Obama administration’s misandrist war on males, touting a fraudulent gender based violence scam as its primary justification. If Obama really cares about dads, the first thing he should do is stop “Witch-Hunting Males” as shown in the video of the same name at Youtube. http://tinyurl.com/65dpzwu Destruction of men, families, children and yes women through the Obama administration’s war on traditional families (using domestic violence law as cover) is no joke.
Report Post »ConservativesLie
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 9:28pmWow Ray! That was a very impressive stretch to somehow include a shot at Obama via a story about a silly interview!
“In today’s news President Obama stated the sky was blue.”
RAY: This is a conspiracy between the lamestream media and the socialist Obama. His creation of a nanny state, combined with the liberal agenda of the media, is an attempt to force the unconstitutional EPA down our throats!
Get a grip Ray!!!!!
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 11:10pm@ Conservativeslie:
It’s clear it’s you are the one who needs to “get a grip.” The Democrat party is a multi-tentacled hate movement that has metastasized into many areas with cancerous evils (policies and laws), especially under Obama. You obviously don’t like to hear the truth and try to dismiss it with an impertinent (and very ignorant) tack, but just because you can’t handle the truth doesn’t make it any less true.
Peddle your low I.Q., leftist drivel to your usual audience of the addled – Democrats. They’re to brainwashed to think and to dimwitted to care. :-/
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:24amHaste makes waste.
Make that,
“They’re too brainwashed to think and too dimwitted to care.”
Report Post »ConservativesLie
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 6:24amRay-
I can’t handle the truth? Ray it is what you perceive as truth that is the problem. Your paranoia and tin foil hat thinking is actually what is wrong in this country today. The extreme amount of misplaced polarity of our political parties prevents any policy from moving forward. So go ahead and keep buying into this Fox News created drivel and let the country become less functional everyday.
Yeah get a grip (and possibly some medication) Ray!
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 8:21pm@ liberalliar – also known as the fraudulently titled, conservativeslie:
Peddle your disingenuous Marxist agenda somewhere else. We factually informed conservatives, and many in the general population, are onto the lazy, crazy, freeloading Democrat scams.
Your reference to a “tin foil hat” is obviously a Freudian projection from your extensive use of one. You and Obama’s psycho leftist agenda has America on the fast track to ruination. Americans don’t need any more “medications” to help tear down this country. Clear minded, rationale thought like that in the conservative camp is what’s needed – not more drug addled, tin foil hat, psycho Democrat delusions like those spawned in the 1960s and promoted by Marxist-Leninist Democrat losers to this day.
Report Post »22AUTOMATIC
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:57pmNot nearly as memorable as the clip below (classic Rome fight clip). He kept calling QB Jim Everett “Chris Everett ” (female tennis player) for two years and Jim confronts him face to face about it. Not quite as violent as Geraldo’s fight with the Klan but entertaining none the less.
http://youtu.be/uczUKTwgqeY
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:14pmThat’s a great vid, and he rightfully deserved that whoopin.
Report Post »Middle Finger
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:56pmIt’s rigged! Conspiracies are all true! I’m a Spurs fan, too :)
Report Post »Go OKC!
nothanks
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 9:49amThe last team to win the lottery in the NBA while having the 4th best odds (same as the Hornets did in this draft) was the Spurs and you ended up picking David Robinson. Was it a conspiracy then? Was it a conspiracy that the Cavaliers won the lottery the year after Lebron James left? David Stern was just tired of the constant insistence that the lottery is fixed. Jim Rome got what he deserved.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:44pmOh come on now. The answer to the wife beating question is really easy.
“No one can beat my wife.”
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:53pmThat was a homosexual question!!!!!
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