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David Stern’s final NBA season began in a familiar place on Tuesday night, as he handed out championship rings to the Miami Heat for the second year in a row, his third time in Miami in his nearly 40 years of acting as the league’s commissioner. Following the Heat’s win over the Bulls in their season opener, Stern headed to a less familiar setting: Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena, where he will preside over a rebirth of sorts for the Sacramento Kings. The Kings, for too long rumored to be packaged for sale by the Maloof Brothers to a series of investors that would move the team elsewhere, are in Sacramento to stay. The team is hanging around thanks in part to the efforts of Stern and his deputy Adam Silver, but mostly due to the tireless work of Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson, and the deep pockets of new Kings owner Vivek Ranadive. Ranadive has refurbished some of the more embarrassing parts of the Sleep Train Arena (though, unfortunately, he hasn’t changed the naming rights situation), and Stern wouldn’t miss the unveiling for the world – also because his visit is a throwback to the first game of the Sacramento Kings era, one that Stern attended in his second full year as commissioner. From the Sacramento Bee’s Ailene Voisin :
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