David Stern was asked about the death threats against Tony Allen that surfaced this week and the commissioner said that such threats are not a new or rare occurrence.

“You might guess that in a league of stars in a variety of cities, that issue is not a new issue for us or for me over the last 25 years,” Stern said. “It’s just that you haven’t read about it and we haven’t talked about it. And we’re not going to talk about it now, except to say it’s something we’re aware of. It’s the very kind of thing that we are always dealing with and one of the reasons why we have security reps in every city. ... We do what we have to do in all difficult times. This is nothing new, at all. Unfortunately.”

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