Bill Reynolds points the finger.

[damekmo@teleport.com]

This, from Bill Reynolds' column in the Providence Journal@:
www.projo.com/report/sports/


>     Whatever, somewhere along the way the game got lost in the shuffle.
>
>     As if an actual basketball game really isn't enough anymore; it has
>to come packaged, has to come with glitter. Has to be entertainment.
>
>     And this is not the players' fault. The players might indeed be
>greedy, spoiled, out of touch, and collectively reprehensible. But they
>simply are products of the system that created them.
>
>     It's the people who run the NBA who have created this system. They're
>the true enemies of the game, the ones who sold their souls for luxury
>boxes, the ones who dote on corporate America while the old-time fans get
>priced out. They're the ones who bastardized the rules, cheapened the game
>and created a system that's spawned a new generation of players whose logo
>should be a dollar bill.
>
>     All in the name of entertainment.

Amen brother Bill.

Paul M.