NBA commissioner David Stern said on Monday that a mistake was made by placing the Spurs in the early game on Sunday after finishing their first round series late on Friday night.

"If we had it to do over again, we wouldn't have acceded to the network's request on that one," Stern said on Monday night.

"We could lay it off on the network, but that's our responsibility and we have the ability to say no," Stern said. "And we should have."