It's Wednesday morning at The Park Hotel, and NBA Commissioner David Stern sits at a couch where Michael Jordan once napped before road games against the Hornets. Stern knows that because a waiter, serving coffee, describes it as the Jordan suite.

"He napped right on that couch!" the waiter describes. "And over there (pointing to a dining room table) his friends would play cards and ... "

"That's all I want to know!" Stern jokes with the waiter, "especially with a reporter here."

And so, sitting next to the "MJ" couch, Stern fielded 10 questions with Observer staff writer Rick Bonnell: