Sportsmanship

When one of the hosts....called the Knicks a public trust, Dolan vehemently disagreed. "The Knicks are not owned by the public," he said. "They are owned by the shareholders of the company, of which I am the majority shareholder, so no."

The analogies between the trillion-dollar sports industry (billionaire owners, millionaire players and underappreciated schmuck fans like me) and the modern economy (mega-corporations, millionaire executives and underappreciated workers/taxpayers) are pretty obvious.

So yes, James Dolan, we do understand. There is no longer any public trust.

[Read the full article in the March 12, 2019 New York Times linked below.]