31.   The league needs you and these players sure need you.

32.   The league needed half a year to come up with an agreement on how to share its billions with its talent.

33.   The Rockets aside, enough other teams have so outdone themselves in tastelessness that the league may need to hire Mr. Blackwell.

34.   There will most likely be some owners and others who feel the league needs to take stronger measures.

35.   Thus, NBA commissioner David Stern said the league did not need Jordan and Magic Johnson to come out of retirement in order to maintain its worldwide popularity.

36.   We keep hearing about how the league desperately needs to develop a new crop of stars.

37.   Whatever solutions are adopted, most owners agreed that the league needs to be active earlier.

38.   Which is interesting because Stewart thinks what the league actually needs is another starting quarterback.

39.   The league needs to get these guys some help, whether or not they are totally disabled.