Commissioners Gone Crazy

I am currently under the impression that to be a commissioner of a professional sports league you must either be an egomaniac or be incompetent.  It is rampant across sports. Commissioners who have their hands in many different matters that they shouldn't. 

I have to say that I am not a big fan of Rodger Goodell and his iron-fisted rule over the NFL. The man has taken the entire league into his hands in terms of discipline. He make suspensions and fines that seemingly are just for his amusement, but this time it isn't about the NFL's chief executive although is is a commissioner gone crazy. 

This time we are talking about David Stern and his unwillingness to allow Chris Paul to be traded. Now I know that the league owns the New Orleans Hornets and there for owned by all the other owners of the league. David Stern works for the owners and that is all well and good, but this is not in the best interest of the Hornets.

The Lakers came up with a deal that, in my opinion, was extremely fair to New Orleans. The leagues' other owners decided that they didn't like Paul in LA with Kobe and all of a sudden the commissioner called off the deal for basketball reasons. 

After that deal fell through Chris Paul found another way into the Los Angelos market when the Clippers came calling for the services in CP3. Although this deal is said to still have life I get the feeling that it is on a ventilator. The league has no desire to let Paul be anywhere except New Orleans. This is all well and good but the way this has gone down has done nothing, but leave egg on the face of Stern.

I attempted over and over to find a situation where a commissioner united a sports fan base against a decision. The best that I came up with was Bud Selig allowing the 2002 All-Star Game to end in a tie. The question was posed to my twitter followers and most of them felt Stern still looked worse, so we are going to play Vegas and raise the line for Bud.

Not only did Bud Selig let the game end in a tie, but then decided to over compensate by making the game "mean something". Selig took an exhibition game and decided to put home field advantage for World Series on the line. 

So I will ask again who is more in the wrong Bud Selig and the All-Star Game fiasco and fall out or is it the non trade of Chris Paul?