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...commissioner David Stern was outraged by his players. He suspended Artest for the rest of the season, costing him some $5.5 million in lost wages. Indiana's Stephen Jackson, who accompanied him into the stands, was docked 30 games, and Jermaine O'Neal, who clocked one fan from a running start, got 25. (Anthony Johnson, another Pacer, got a five-game rest; Detroit's Wallace, whose shove of Artest set off the chain of events, was iced for six.) The NBA Players Association has appealed Artest's suspension as unreasonable. Oakland County, Mich., authorities are reviewing game and security tapes...
...Stern wants the fight to set off a national debate about what he calls the "social contract" between fans and players, which seems to have been voided. "Over the years, at all sporting events, there's developed a combination of things," says Stern. "First, the professional heckler, who feels empowered to spend the entire game directing his attention to disturbing the other team at any decibel level, at any vocabulary. Then, an ongoing permissiveness that runs the gamut from college kids who don't wear shirts and paint their faces and think that liberates them to say anything...
...format of this year’s council debate differed from last year in that the moderators—former council members Joshua A. Barro ’05, Joshua L. Stern ’05 and Jack P. McCambridge ’06—guided the debate by asking the candidates specific questions based on their College and council experiences...
...Stern said that the moderators intended to provide a level playing field by comparing questions with one another before the debate...
...opportunity for us who know the candidates...to highlight things that are unclear and things that people are concerned about,” Stern said...