Bryant Gumbel David Stern Comments: Video, Full Quote Oct 18 2011

Bryant Gumbel Said Some Stuff About David Stern on HBO's Real Sports. Here is the Video and Full Quote

Bryant Gumbel's take on the NBA lockout will no doubt get plenty of people talking, especially on sports talk radio. The host of HBO's Real Sports made some pointed comments about the NBA lockout during the show's broadcast on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. 

What Did Bryant Gumbel Say About David Stern?

Bryant Gumbel said David Stern was “part of the problem” that sees the NBA players and owners at a stalemate. He then invoked slavery, comparing  Stern to a "modern plantation overseer treating NBA men as if they were his boys."

This isn't going to end well.

Here is the full Bryant Gumbel quote on David Stern:

“Finally tonight, if the NBA lockout is going to be resolved any time soon, it seems likely to be done in spite of David Stern, not because of him. I say that because the NBA’s infamously egocentric commissioner seems more hell-bent lately on demeaning the players than resolving his game’s labor impasse.

How else to explain Stern’s rants in recent days? To any and everyone who’d listen, he has alternately knocked union leader Billy Hunter, said the players were getting inaccurate information, and started sounding Chicken Little claims about what games might be lost if the players didn’t soon see things his way.

Stern’s version of what’s been going on behind closed doors has, of course, been disputed. But his efforts were typical of a commissioner, who has always seemed eager to be viewed as some kind of modern plantation overseer treating NBA men as if they were his boys. It’s part of Stern’s MO. Like his past self-serving edicts on dress code or the questioning of officials, his moves are intended to do little more than show how he’s the one keeping the hired hands in their place.

Some will, of course, cringe at that characterization, but Stern’s disdain for the players is as palpable and pathetic as his motives are transparent. Yes, the NBA’s business model is broken, but to fix it, maybe the league’s commissioner should concern himself most with a solution, and stop being part of the problem.”

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