It took a little while, but locked-out NBA players bowed before public pressure and took the highly unusual step of giving the proceeds from their proposed December 19 charity basketball game to, of all places, charity.
Originally, the plan was to donate a small percentage of ticket and broadcast revenues to charity, with the rest going to NBA players suffering 'financial hardship' during the lockout. Surely, the players reasoned, the public would sympathize about having to scrape by on the ...