For instance, if someone takes a million dollars and puts it on a shelf and you find it there, it's yours. You're not worried about how it got there. If people tell you it's yours, you're not going to worry about the history of it. It's all relative. For example, a car, which I could've purchased back when I first started in the league cost a couple grand.
Nothing ever stays the same.
It's a fact of life. Still, if it wasn't for guys like Beaty, who was willing to put his reputation on the line for the pensioners, there would have been a lot more taxi cab drivers and street sweepers than there were back then. But that just adds to Beaty's legend. A fierce competitor on the court, and a voice among the silent majority off the court. He was always a leader among men.