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...

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...

compensation for the draft picks traded away by their previous owner, Ted Stepien. A player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was automatically...

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...

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"...

according to FIBA rules. * compensation for draft choices traded away by Ted Stepien These players who declared or were automatically eligible for the 1986...

Cleveland Stepien's Competitors, broke away to form the North American Softball League (NASL), under the leadership of Cleveland owner Ted Stepien, who owned...

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...

"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...

* Further compensation for draft choices previously traded away by Ted Stepien. ** Compensation for the Utah Jazz signing Billy Paultz *** Compensation...

Stępień (born 1964), Polish fencer Mariusz Stepien (born 1976), metal detector enthusiast in Scotland Piotr Stępień (born 1963), Polish wrestler Ted Stepien...

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...

succeeded in buying the Coliseum, and eventually bought the Cavaliers from Ted Stepien in 1983). With the Barons barely registering on Cleveland's sports landscape...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Suns would have automatically kept their pick by default due to the Ted Stepien rule). However, due to their July trade with the Orlando Magic, the Suns...

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...

three, in the 1979 championship. The league folded soon thereafter. Ted Stepien, then owner of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers, hired Musselman to his...

1999 to 2000. The team was owned by former Cleveland Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien, who moved the team to Youngstown from Mansfield. The Hawks struggled...

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...

owner Ted Stepien intended to split the young professional sport, forming a new league, which Pittsburgh Hardhats ownership challenged in court. Stepien even...

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...

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...

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...

the leadership of Cleveland owner Ted Stepien. The Bourbons continued in the reduced numbers of the APSPL. Stepien placed NASL teams in several APSPL...

leadership of Ted Stepien, who owned 6 of the 8 teams in the league (only the Fort Wayne Huggie Bears and Milwaukee Schlitz had non-Stepien ownership),...