NEW YORK -- Unlike David Stern, who's clever enough to sift through and digest the countless number of confrontations, machinations, nuances and interrogations relevant to the scariest NBA scene he confesses to have ever witnessed and impart a ground-breaking decision within 36 hours, my investigation regarding Friday night's sickening fight isn't nearly completed.
In fact, the momentous majority-of-one historic ruling by the commissioner only serves to extend, expand and complicate it.
By suspending a passel of Pacers a total of 134 games Stern, essentially, put one of the league's most loyal franchises and a clear-cut title contender (see road kills against the Timberwolves and Pistons despite being acutely undermanned) into suspended contamination.