If you haven't heard of Ozzie Silna, you should know: He was kind of a big deal around the NBA. In fact, one of the biggest in league history.
Silna, who with his brother negotiated a prescient deal that brought them almost $800 million in NBA television money, without ever owning an NBA team, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 83.
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His family said the cause of death was cancer, according to multiple reports.
Ozzie and Daniel Silna, who owned the Spirits of St.