• management decisions ultimately led the NBA to create what is known as the "Ted Stepien rule" to restrict how teams can trade draft picks. A December 6, 1982...
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    the team to Nationwide Advertising magnate Ted Stepien on April 12, 1980. Early on in his tenure, Stepien proposed to rename the team the "Ohio Cavaliers"...
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  • Cleveland Cavaliers were awarded the 24th pick out of courtesy. Then-owner Ted Stepien was infamous for repeatedly trading first-round picks in the late 1970s...
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    the Eastern Conference Finals. The franchise was purchased by Ted Stepien in 1980. Stepien's tenure as owner was marked by six coaching changes, questionable...
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  • "Global Basketball Association" (GBA). The league was owned and founded by Ted Stepien, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers from 1980 to 1983. Two international...
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  • played in Toronto from 1983 to December 1985. The team was owned by Ted Stepien who had threatened to move his Cleveland Cavaliers team of the National...
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  • Look up Stepien or Stępień in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stepien or Stępień may refer to: Stępień, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, a village in Poland...
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  • succeed in buying the Coliseum, and eventually bought the Cavaliers from Ted Stepien in 1983). With the Barons barely registering on Cleveland's sports landscape...
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  • Cleveland Stepien's Competitors, broke away to form the North American Softball League (NASL), under the leadership of Cleveland owner Ted Stepien, who owned...
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  • pick in the same season. This was because Cleveland Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien traded their first round pick and Butch Lee to the Lakers for Don Ford...
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  • according to FIBA rules. * compensation for draft choices traded away by Ted Stepien These players who declared or were automatically eligible for the 1986...
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  • * Further compensation for draft choices previously traded away by Ted Stepien. ** Compensation for the Utah Jazz signing Billy Paultz *** Compensation...
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  • game ball supplier for the 2021–22 season. Ted Stepien sold the Cleveland Cavaliers to Gordon Gund. Under Stepien, attendance at the Cavaliers' home arena...
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  • majority interest in the Cleveland Cavaliers from Ted Stepien for $20 million on April 7, 1983. Stepien's Nationwide Advertising Service Inc. and new cable...
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  • Cleveland. Ted Stepien bought the team in 1978 and would change the name to the Cleveland Stepien's Competitors for the 1979 season. Stepien had opened...
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  • when he feuded with team owner Ted Stepien. Franklin and Cavaliers' radio voice Joe Tait openly questioned Stepien's ability to operate the team after...
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    com. Archived from the original on 2009-12-03. Retrieved 2008-05-09. "Ted Stepien, 82; NBA owner inspired new rule". Los Angeles Times. 2007-09-11. Retrieved...
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  • prevented the team from building on its success. Cleveland Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien lured Wedman and Birdsong away with big contract offers. In 1979, the...
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    points and 7.4 rebounds per game. On February 7, 1983, Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien desperately needed money to pay the team's payroll, so Edwards was traded...
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  • games to three, in the 1979 championship. The league folded soon after. Ted Stepien, then owner of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, hired Musselman for his...
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  • Dyke College. He also coached a professional softball team owned by Ted Stepien, who also owned the Cleveland Cavaliers. On June 4, 1980, he was named...
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  • Shop (b. 1942) 2007 – Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (b. 1930) 2007 – Ted Stepien, American businessman (b. 1925) 2007 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b...
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  • owner Ted Stepien intended to split the young professional sport, forming a new league, which Pittsburgh Hardhats ownership challenged in court. Stepien even...
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    Saunders – Painter, Professor Emeritus Clifford Shull – Nobel laureate Ted Stepien – Cleveland Cavaliers owner from 1980–83 Benjamin Tatar – actor Stanley...
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  • leadership of Cleveland owner (and eventual owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers) Ted Stepien. The APSPL continued with just 6 teams (down from 12 in each of the previous...
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    Inc. Archived from the original on 2010-03-21. Retrieved 2008-03-18. "Ted Stepien, 82; NBA owner inspired new rule". Los Angeles Times. 2007-09-11. Retrieved...
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    controversial Cavs' team owner Ted Stepien had a disagreement with WWWE. Consequently, the station gave the broadcasting rights back to Stepien, and Tait was released...
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