For most of us, the quick answer would be "no". After all $25,000 can buy a decent car or 250,000 packs of ramen noodles if you wait for it to go on sale for 10 for $1 sale and you can borrow your roommate's car to get you to the grocery store just off campus.
So let me change that question.
If you were a multi millionaire would you pay $25,000 to hit Draymond Green in the face with a basketball?
To put it in perspective, $25,000 to someone making $10,000,0000 per yer is like $187.50 to someone making $75,000.
So if you were making $75,000 per year, would you pay $187.50 to hit Draymond Green in the face with a basketball?
My guess is that around 50% of basketball fans would say yes.
How about if I could get that number down to $114?
Now I'd say we are at about 90% saying yes.
Well if you put things in that perspective, that is all Tristan Thompson had to pay for hitting Draymond Green in the face with the ball at the end of game one.
Great job NBA. Way to enforce your rules!