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> Rod Benson is a columnist for SFGATE, a fine artist, and a former professional basketball player for the NBA D-League and Korean Basketball League. He’s previously written for Yahoo Sports! and SLAM magazine and is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley.

I don't find a butthurt, thinly veiled anticapitalist rant about known quantities and easily accessible numbers, by written by someone who enjoys a mountain of privilege, to be particularly interesting or compelling.

Things are more expensive than they were in our youth. Entertainment destinations are expensive. The privileged class can afford them. These things are not new.

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I don't know how much you think D-League players make but the current base salary (for what is now called the G-League) is $37k a year, and I imagine it was much less when he was playing in the late 2000s.