NBA boss leads a charmed life

In Australia, there's a quaint little saying which (supplanting a bad word) goes: His bottom always ends up in the butter.

It refers to a lucky man who, no matter how dire the circumstances, always manages to have a soft landing. NBA Commissioner David Stern is such a being.

No matter how bad things seem to get in the world's best basketball league, the canny former New York lawyer always comes out sunny-side up, so to speak.