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A basketball fan who used to work in his dad's deli, David Stern turned the NBA into a global sport and business empire like nothing else America had ever seen.

Asked his greatest accomplishment in 2014 at his final news conference as commissioner before passing on the mantle to Silver, Stern couldn't find an answer.

"If you just look to what the modern NBA has become, my greatest accomplishment was in hiring the now 1,200 people that used to be 24 that have taken the league to where it is and... where it's going, which is higher yet.""The game changed in so many ways under David Stern's leadership and vision," tweeted retired NBA superstar Kobe Bryant."He demanded the best of everyone because he gave it himself.

"There are no words that can really describe the far-reaching impact of commissioner Stern's brilliance, vision, fairness and hard work over so many years," Celtics legend Larry Bird said.

 

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