BlackBalled or "Addition by Subtraction"?

In the March 8 ESPN the Magazine, an article by "Player X" says:"But there's a quicker way to be kicked to the curb in the NBA: getting blackballed."Player X argues that players like Bonzi Wells, Stephon Marbury and Steve Francis have been blackballed by the NBA. As he writes:"You never know where it comes from. It could be the owners getting together to decide no one is going to offer a guy a