see ... here's the thing.... if you want to extort someone, you have to threaten to deprive them of something they give a shit about like their family or their dog. If you threaten to deprive them of something they don't care about like, say, "Do this thing now or else we kill all the mosquitoes", it's not going to have the reaction you want. I would have thought the NBA were better at being thugs than this. It's kind of embarrassing.