NBA Reverses Call as Stern Signature Ball to Be Bounced on Exit
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The National Basketball Association’s next commissioner will get his own ball after all.
The NBA and Spalding, in an about-face, said official game balls will carry Adam Silver’s signature beginning the day he succeeds David Stern, who is stepping down Feb. 1. Spalding, a part of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Fruit of the Loom unit, had said game-used balls would carry Stern’s signature for the entire 2013-14 season.