So while the NBA is often positioned as the most forward thinking of the pro leagues, it is clearly as money hungry as the much-maligned NFL. We could pretend no one in the NBA knew about the tensions — and more importantly, their cause — prior to Morey’s tweet. Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey attends Yao Ming’s retirement news conference in China in 2011. In ushering in an era of free agency, Flood made significant career and financial sacrifices to be on the right side of history. Fifty years ago Flood made a decision that took almost everything from him, all for the greater good.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 07, 2019 23:48 UTC