A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. What is a 'Non-picture" worth?

The Los Angeles Times is running an interesting story on how NBA.com and all NBA team sites have removed all player images from their sites. Now when you surf over to your favorite team's site or NBA.com, you are greeted by images of pictures David Stern's mug (meh), cheerleaders (niiiiiice), and WNBA players (yiiiiiikkkkkkkkeeeesssss!).