[zaga_fan]

Professional sports teams are a business. Businesses in the United States are free to operate how they see fit. If he chooses to sit his players, that's his own prerogative. The free market will dictate the response to this decision. If fans are upset with it, they will stop coming, and the organization will suffer, and be forced to respond.

The same goes for the Miami Marlins trade. This is basically the same as if the President fined Apple because he wasn't happy that the new iPhone doesn't have the features he sees fit. Free markets work. Communist governments like the one David Stern runs do not.

Professional sports teams are a business...
under the umbrella of their respective sports league.

If the Spurs get by with this...
other veteran teams will do it...
less people will buy tickets...
less people will watch it on tv...
the TV contract will be harder to renew and not worth as much money...
and the NBA will have a problem with conducting everyday business.

We have to realize that not too long ago the NBA was pitching the idea of revenue sharing because only a handful of teams are pulling a profit.