What am I bid?
Ok, maybe equating the NBA draft with a slave auction isn't entirely accurate or fair, but as I sat watching it Thursday night I couldn't help making the comparison.
Every year the league's 30 teams select new players from the college ranks, foreign countries, and increasingly American high schools. In a sport where all but one of the owners is White (the expansion Charlotte Bobcats are owned by BET founder Robert Johnson), the majority of the players and new draft picks are Black.
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