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Poll: Should Gumbel’s plantation overseer-David Stern analogy get him kicked off 'Real Sports'?

Bryant Gumbel made his comments about the NBA commissioner at the end of a "Real Sports" episode.

NBA players and owners are in labor negotiations. The sides have been divided over two main issues, the division of revenues and the structure of the salary cap system.

After another long day of negotiations Wednesday, players and owners made plans for another meeting.

It’s not what commissioner David Stern wanted, but it’s better than the cancellations that could come if talks fall through.

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Bryant Gumbel, on a Real Sports rant this week on HBO, likened the NBA commissioner to a "plantation overseer," according to ESPN.

So let's understand this: The only commissioner in sports who constantly pushed for and finally secured black ownership within his league is somehow linked to a slave master?

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