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The players do get exactly half the NBA's revenue. The critical difference is public sympathy. The public doesn't really care whether players get half, 51, 52 percent, whatever -- they just see a bunch of multimillionaires vs. billionaires in those fights. But "beloved NBA players vs. flagrantly racist dude?" That's a fight you're not going to win in the court of public opinion.

Sure, but that's not what Publius was saying. There was 0 chance of this being a catalyst for a new league, and if the players were the ones in power they wouldn't only get half the money. That's what I was objecting to.

[stupac2]

The players do get exactly half the NBA's revenue. The critical difference is public sympathy. The public doesn't really care whether players get half, 51, 52 percent, whatever -- they just see a bunch of multimillionaires vs. billionaires in those fights. But "beloved NBA players vs. flagrantly racist dude?" That's a fight you're not going to win in the court of public opinion.

Sure, but that's not what Publius was saying. There was 0 chance of this being a catalyst for a new league, and if the players were the ones in power they wouldn't only get half the money. That's what I was objecting to.