NBA Commissioner Slams Rodman’s North Korea Trip (VIDEO)

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NBA commissioner David Stern was not amused with hall of fame player Dennis Rodman’s recent trip to North Korea, telling Charlie Rose in an upcoming story to air on “60 Minutes” that he found the entire story “ridiculous.”

Stern told Rose that any meeting with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un should only be arranged by the State Department.

“I think it’s ridiculous,” Stern said. “I think that if you’re going to meet someone with the record on human rights and nuclear testing in a reckless way and counterfeiting U.S. dollars and exporting a horrible brand of whatever it is he’s exporting and starving his people and locking them up, it should be done only in conjunction with the State Department with an agenda. If not, you shouldn’t go.”

Stern added that someone should have assumed the “burden” to “try to educate Dennis a little bit” on Kim’s history “so that [Rodman] doesn’t come back and say, ‘The dude is really cool. His father was really great. His grandfather was great. And really, why doesn’t the President just give him a buzz?'”

A perennial league leader in technical fouls throughout his playing career, Rodman was a frequent recipient of disciplinary action handed down from Stern.

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