What's black and white and making green all over? Village Voice writer Dan McGraw on race, money and the "foreign invasion of the NBA game":

In 1995, according to figures from the University of South Florida's Institute of Diversity and Ethics in Sport, the NBA was 82 percent African-American. By 2002, the percentage fell to 78. It's a good bet that it will continue to fall, based on predictions of what will happen in this year's NBA draft. Last year, six foreign players were chosen in the first round of the draft. According to an average of three mock drafts conducted ahead of this June's real thing, that number will be going up significantly