Tornicade
2018 RBF League Champion
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Ladies and Gentleman: the reigning NBA champion Miami Heat.
These men, and their colleagues on other teams, have power because they are the talent in an entertainment business; without the talent there is no business. At its heart, it is simply a matter of self respect; they simply aren't having it.
The NBA leadership has determined that the exercise of this power will be distasteful to the public, and therefore brings the potential for significant negative impact to league revenue.
As has been noted, corporate sponsors have the power to affect league revenue in this situation as well, which they will yield for a entirely different set of reasons.
These scenario must be avoided at all costs by a league in ever-increasing competition for the marginal entertainment dollar.
It has nothing to do with free speech or privacy. It is about a franchise holder who let his sordid lifestyle expose his personal bullshit to the public in a manner which proved unacceptable to to the above stakeholders, and thereby put league revenues at risk. Nothing more, nothing less.
Donald Sterling has to go, and has to go quickly.
Its cute that you think the players are any more than sideshow entertainment for this