Stern picks strange battles
from ESPN.com
Details of the scandal involving Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur are beginning to emerge as the NBA and the players’ association investigate the events that led to their expulsion from the league’s rookie transition program Wednesday.

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Several sources said Thursday that NBA commissioner David Stern was so angered by the two former Kansas players’ alleged involvement with marijuana and women at the program that he made the call to remove them from their rooms at the Doral Arrowwood resort in Rye Brook, N.Y.
Marijuana and women. Gee, those ARE scourges on our planet. Much bigger problems for the league than, say, the fixing of playoff series’. But since he orchestrated it, that will never come to light.