Please you people, stop overreacting. This is just Stern limiting advertising in the NBA to his own organization, which is more than legal, and more than ethical too, business-wise. Employees aren't allowed to come into work and endorse whatever product they feel like to the general public. They are only publicly allowed (without getting fired) to talk up their own product, and even then, it's best left to the experts in marketing. Any way you slice it, this move is what Stern HAS to do. Artest has again forced Stern's hand, and the average NBA fan, ignorant as they may be of economic politics (of which there are many many different kinds), once again finds him/herself siding with Artest, because Stern looks like he's turning the NBA into "the military." (Totally asinine comment, by the way.) I think the title of this thread should have been finished with "...Is Stupid" You left that part out.
That's true. I guess you could compare it to Coca-Cola employees not being allowed to drink any other beverage in public. It happens all over the business world.
