NEW YORK — David Stern was deep in the bowels of Staples Center, holding an impromptu press conference next to the loading dock when he should have been in a luxury suite upstairs getting ready to enjoy Game 3 of the NBA Finals.
His message that day was that Tim Donaghy was a renegade crackpot and that he wasn't worried at all about his allegations that NBA referees conspired to fix at least one playoff series and may have influenced even more.
"Why should I be worried?" Stern asked.