NBA Commissioner To Scale Back Arena Gimmicks

May 14 - NBA Commissioner David Stern feels it's time to turn down the noise and scale back the pyrotechnics at games. He recently called the trend toward loud, fiery in-arena entertainment "ridiculous" and "a kind of assault that we should seriously consider reviewing whether it's really necessary."

Stern has had similar concerns in the past, and in 1996 the league strictly enforced a little-known rule on maximum in-arena decibel levels when the Utah Jazz were playing against the Seattle Supersonics in the Western Conference finals.

At the New Orleans Hornets arena there was a 19-minute delay during the first half of Game 1 of the series with the San Antonio Spurs because of a mascot's stunt involving a ring of fire.

After the mascot, known as Super Hugo, successfully used a trampoline to jump through the fire and dunk a basketball, firefighters on site were unable to put out the flames with a carbon dioxide extinguisher and had to resort to a conventional foam spray, which left a white residue all over the court.

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