{"id":10763,"date":"2011-10-20T15:08:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T19:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10763"},"modified":"2011-10-20T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T17:05:07","slug":"bryant-gumbel-calls-nba-commissioner-%e2%80%98plantation-overseer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10763","title":{"rendered":"Bryant Gumbel Calls NBA Commissioner \u2018Plantation Overseer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bryant Gumbel<\/strong> invoked race in a televised editorial on the NBA\u2019s strained labor talks, likening league <strong>Commissioner David Stern<\/strong> to a \u201cplantation overseer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gumbel<\/strong> ended Tuesday\u2019s edition of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Sports\u201d by taking aim at <strong>Stern<\/strong>, who he said is to blame for the lockout that threatens the entire season. He said <strong>Stern\u2019s<\/strong> \u201cdisdain for the players\u201d is \u201cpathetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut 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,\u201d <strong>Gumbel<\/strong> said. \u201cIt\u2019s part of <strong>Stern\u2019s<\/strong> 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\u2019s the one keeping the hired hands in their place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryant Gumbel invoked race in a televised editorial on the NBA\u2019s strained labor talks, likening league Commissioner David Stern to a \u201cplantation overseer.\u201d Gumbel ended Tuesday\u2019s edition of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Sports\u201d by taking aim at Stern, who he said is to blame for the lockout that threatens the entire season. He said Stern\u2019s \u201cdisdain for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}