NBA Chief David Stern Slams Bryant Gumbel For Calling Him a 'Plantatio

Tim Graham
June 12th, 2013 1:56 PM
Outgoing NBA commissioner David Stern granted an interview to Lee Hawkins of the Wall Street Journal on June 7, and Hawkins asked him about Bryant Gumbel’s characterization of Stern as a “plantation overseer” during the most recent contract negotiations with the NBA players union in 2011. He actually said Stern "always seemed eager to be viewed as some kind of modern plantation overseer…
 

MSNBC's Ed Schultz Recommends NBA Players Be Banned from Gun Ownership

Brad Wilmouth
January 6th, 2010 5:13 AM
On Tuesday's The Ed Show, MSNBC host Ed Schultz fretted that NBA players who own firearms are setting a bad example for impressionable young people who may be inspired to emulate their athletic heroes and purchase guns of their own as he called on NBA commissioner David Stern to impose a rule that, "If you want to play in the NBA, you can`t own firearms because with the visibility comes the…