The many facets of former NBA commissioner David Stern were presented by selected speakers at his memorial service Tuesday, but only one referred to him as "my angel": Magic Johnson. Former WNBA commissioner Val Ackerman talked about Stern, the man who championed and pioneered the WNBA's existence in the late 1990s. It was Johnson, though — and to a different degree, Golden State Warriors president Rick Welts — who presented a picture of a supportive man who naturally took the sides of things that were right, believing the rest of the world would follow suit.