Berry Tramel

Tulsa World Sports Columnist

OKLAHOMA CITY — David Stern was the NBA commissioner for 30 years. During that time, he handed the league championship trophy to representatives of eight franchises.

Stern’s successor, Adam Silver, is overseeing his 12th NBA Finals. And sometime in the next 17 days, when Silver hands over the O’Brien Trophy, either the Thunder’s Clay Bennett or the Pacers’ Herb Simon will represent the ninth different franchise to win the league championship.

Parity indeed has come to the NBA.

“I remember when I first joined the league, David used to joke early on in his tenure, he said his job was to go back and forth between Boston and L.A. handing out championship trophies,” Silver said Thursday night in a pre-Finals press conference in the bowels of Paycom

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