NBA Players Get Played
Submitted on November 29, 2011
By Dave Zirin - November 28, 2011
Disregard the avalanche of tweets from your favorite star player about how excited they are to get back to work. The players were dunked on and [NBA Commissioner David] Stern is wagging his tongue while hanging from the rim...[W]e have what at the bottom line is a massive transfer of wealth from players to owners: $3 billion over the next decade, to be more precise. Three billion dollars extracted from those we pay to see, to those who have spent the last twenty years treating fans and taxpayers like the cowering abused partners we are.
