homeytennis
Well-Known Member
I agree. Make it a true minor league. Have a 3-5 round draft. Make it so you can enter the draft out of high school. If you are taken in the first round, you have to play in the NBA. If you are taken in rounds 2-3 (or 5) you can go to college. If you go to college, you aren't eligible for the draft for three years.
Solves all the problems. Every team has their affiliate D League team. You can send players up and down. Just copy baseball.
The NBA has never embraced copying the baseball major/minor league structure. Why I don't know. Once you get past the superstars, it seems to be that there are a lot of equal players riding NBA benches vs. RLeague starters.