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![]() ![]() We put that together in an hour.”įormer NBA Commissioner David Stern once booted Vecsey from a league-sanctioned studio show (more on that later), but has since come to count the reporter as a friend. “He told me the whole story, and we go with it. “I believed him, obviously,” Vecsey tells me, over a recent dinner in Manhattan. Carlesimo during practice, the source swiftly relayed the whole story back to Vecsey. After hearing about how Sprewell had choked his head coach P.J. Vecsey says he phoned up an ex-Warriors player – obviously, he won’t say who – that then called someone from the team. After making some calls on Sprewell that day, he’d wind up with something far more significant than trade news, and arguably the biggest scoop of his career.Ī source in the league office didn’t have a specific answer for Vecsey, but told him that there was “something happening out there” and urged him to check it out. He also made league gossip into an art form. Vecsey had recently reported that Latrell Sprewell was on the trade block, and was trying to nail down progress on or consummation of a deal.īeloved by some and despised by others, and sometimes loved and hated by the same people over time, Vecsey was the first newspaper columnist to specialize in the NBA. Peter Vecsey had an 8 pm deadline for his New York Post column, which ran three times per week, but the Golden State Warriors weren’t returning his calls. It was a late afternoon in early December 1997. ![]()
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