What does the NBA, MLB, NFL and other professional sports leagues do with fines?

What does the NBA, MLB, NFL and other professional sports leagues do with fines?
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The NBA uses that money on different things: a retired players’ pension fund, and I think the “how to behave yourselves in public when you have a bajillion dollars but no common sense or education and no one ever said no to you” class for rookies is also paid for in part with that money.
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