Magic Johnson on David Stern: ‘I’m gonna miss my angel’

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.