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HBO�s Gumbel compares David Stern to plantation overseerer

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:41 AM PDT

HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" celebrates its 10th anniversary. Pictured: (from left) James Brown, Mary Carillo, Bernard Goldberg, host Bryant Gumbel, Frank Deford and Armen Keteyian. Photo by Nathaniel Welch/HBO

HBO Real Sports anchor Bryant Gumbel never holds back in his commentary. And his recent comments about NBA Commissioner David Stern were no different in which he compared Stern to a plantation overseerer.

�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 M.O. 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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