Bryant Gumbel calls David Stern a "plantation overseer"

Who is Bryant Gumbel and why would anyone care what his opinion is on the NBA labor situation? Or any situation? He's nothing but the former NBC house-negro who is now a strutting, preening capon.

 

I'd like to see these players try to operate the league themselves, without any owners' or commissioner's "overseeing". The Association would be in shambles in no time ... real shambles.

The players need to take their salaries and all the excess benefits, invest wisely, and plan for the future when the games are all done for each of them.

This is a business, with bottom lines and business owners and places of business.
The players need to recognize this.

 

every time I think of Bryant Gumbel I think of how he got his leopard print g-string in a knot over Letterman doing this.

 

Where would we all be without the wise and brilliant billionaires to guide us?

We could be a great people; we wish to be. We only lack the light to lead the way.

 

I also laugh at the thought of the players trying to market their product without any help from owners or the commish.
The league would be transformed into a nightly freak show, with players running up and down the floor, traveling, palming and dunking routinely, while some fat-headed 'host' chases them around, screaming about their every with his Sucker Emcee microphone

 

Excellent take.

 

Oh, you must mean the And1 traveling circus.

 

Well let's see. Is he preventing anyone from going to a plantation in Europe and playing for a few mil there.

 

Here's the problem.

He doesn't put 'slavery' and 'Stern' in the same sentence. Read the pivotal sentence again. If you're going to credit Gumbel with knowing exactly what he's writing, how about we read exactly what he wrote?

Editorially, of course his intention is to stir things up. As is the case from time to time with every columnist anywhere.

 

Az, I'm not sure where you're going. Are we to infer Gumbel was not talking about slavery? If that's not the correct take, then what is? Please, tell us. What should we have inferred from images of slavery and "Stern" in the same sentence. I'm confused.

 

You've expressed what I've thought for a while about the term "nuanced". It's a way to justify unpopular or controversial opinion by framing it as a debate about intellect or deeper comprehension and not that you think Subway should introduce a Dead Baby Five Dollar Foot Long or whatever whackadoo thing you're espousing.