David Stern was embarrassment on the Jim Rome show

David Stern was on the Jim Rome radio show and with one statement just throw game one of the NBA finals in the garbage because when he said to Rome "have U stop beaten your life" and everybody focused on the Stern statement. The conversation began with Rome saying "Is the fix in for the lottery" and Stern said "I have two answers for U and I will go with short answer No and shame on U for asking that question". Rome then came back with "It is an honest question that a lot of people want to know the answer to" and while Rome is saying this U could her Stern in the background say "have U stop beaten your wife yet" and because he did not get a response from Rome he said it again when Rome finished talking and Rome said "he did not need to answer that question".At this point in the interview thing broke down and they began going back and forth for another 3 minutes and it ended with Stern saying that Rome has made a living off of cheap thrills which Rome took offence to and Stern said "do U want to hang up on me" and Rome said "I never hang up on U but we are running out of time". Stern finished with "I have to call someone important like Steven A Smith who is next on my list" and Rome said " I guess I will talk to someone". The Reality is that if Stern had caught himself after his first time saying "have U stop beaten your wife" then it may have been a discussion but the audio is not great so there would be a question of what he really said. This would of allowed him to quietly blow it off and not have to answer up for it like owning the Thunder and blocking the Lakers trade for Chris Paul. When he said it again when Rome was not talking then the stuff hit the fan and he immediately became a black eye for the NBA and will have to apologize to Rome and NBA fans everywhere and he may take a hit in the wallet under pressure of some NBA owners. It is time for Stern to own up for his mistakes Tom Mehegan