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Who, no one mentions Duncan, and you snap.
Go do some more "Dwight/CP3 to L.A threads", Kool.
We need more laughs.
No market outside of San Antonio considers Tim Duncan a draw...great player but boring as to watch. Anybody who says that prime Duncan is a bigger draw than prime AI is a got with zero credibility, and they should probably kill themselves to save the world from their stupidity.
Who, no one mentions Duncan, and you snap.
Go do some more "Dwight/CP3 to L.A threads", Kool.
We need more laughs.
Exactly. It happens to feather my cap for the players to toe the status quo. I've never said otherwise.
Bend over. I'll show ya grandpa in' Walton.
What would any living person today know about the characteristics of a slave owner? Gumbel has never met one, and his only source of information is from anecdotes.
It could be argued that Gumbel wasn't referring to race, but then he's smart enough to choose his words carefully. It's not improvised. He knew he was pulling the card.
Stern does have a superiority complex, but it's not race related. He would be just as uppity with any of his "workers".
Basketball does need a new commissioner, Stern's like Castro in that he's way past en lement.
However, slaves never earned 20 million a year or anything besides a barn to sleep in and food and water.
What we wouldn't give to get these NBA slave positions, eh?
Oh yeah... I forgot... "sons".
Gumbel took something that actually had merit and destroyed its credibility by making it race related and sounding like an angry disenfranchised black man.
Stern's unnecessary rules like the dress code or randomly changing the official NBA ball to something the players hated don't serve any purpose and are examples of him using his authority just because he likes having it.
The deputy commissioner is black, there is a growing amount of black celebrities who are partial team owners (Will Smith, Jay-Z, MJ), there are countless black coaches out there, etc. Stern isn't the slightest bit racist.
^^^ If anything the owners did right was to hire 3 jews (Stern, Silver, Litvin) to run the league and fight for them, tbh...
no the parallels are not there at all. If the players didn't get to collectively bargain and were forced to accept a hard salary cap then maybe, but even then there's the whole part of slavery where it wasn't voluntary. Players can leave the NBA whenever they want to, slaves in the 1800s couldn't just stop picking cotton if they wanted to.
Nothing about the salary cap or the draft has anything to do with "exclusive rights". A player can go overseas if he doesn't wanna enter the draft or deal with a salary cap. The NBA doesn't have "exclusive rights" and never has, it gets the best athletes because it pays 7-8 figure salaries and is the most compe ive league. Do you really think a league anyone on this site would play in if they could is comparable to a in cotton plantation?
DoK knows racism yall.
Even Steven A. Smith, one of the biggest reverse racists involved in professional sports, said Gumbel's comparison was asinine. If you have a reverse racist opinion that Steven A. Smith DOESN'T agree with, it means you've gone way too far.
+ DoK knows how to sit a stalk.
Not intentionally but hey, if the shoe fits.
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