NBA commissioner David Stern recently sat with Wall Street Journal‘s Lee Hawkins and discussed the financial woes of NBA players. He was highly critical of ESPN’s 30 for 30 – Broke documentary which featured mostly African American athletes who had unwisely spent and lost all of their money. Stern said the documentary was bad journalism, bad fact checking and “mildly racist”. Read more after the jump.
Stern discussed the improvements they’ve made in protecting athletes and securing money for them. He desecrated the documentary and it’s claims.