JujitsuFlip wrote:That would just water down the talent.UcanUwill wrote:JujitsuFlip wrote:They can't do relegation.
What League would they relegate down to? The G League?
The NBA cap for a NBA team is $140 million. The G League doesn't have a cap but for all 15 players would be less than $1 million.
Further, the capacity of the G League gyms is tiny compared to NBA arenas. Can you imagine NBA teams having to play in gyms that only hold 750 people? That would be pure chaos. Even the gyms with 2,000 to 5,000 people capacity, is tiny. Only 5 of the 31 G League teams actually have NBA sized arenas.
Plus, players are not going to be cool with riding buses to games after 1 season before they were flying on private jets.
The NBA is a player driven league, any idea without the consideration is dead on arrival. They're unionized too, so they have someone backing them.
Yes, a lot of further work needs to be done, but I always thought it sucks that only 28 USA cities has a real Basketball team. If they introduced relegation system, they could expend so much, not directly NBA, but a second league, put team in Nashville, Seattle, Vegas, many other cities I imagine could be exited. League would no longer be G league, it would have normal salaries, not NBA level cap, but competitive. New player contracts would have relegation clause, just like they do in Europe, sometimes teams with big players get relegated, these players can leave, they do not go to domestic second division. I mean I understand it absolutely sucks for the fan if your team gets relegated, but thats sports, if you suck, you get punished, and then you compete in a weaker league, hoping to get back as soon as 1 year later.
The NBA can't even field 30 competitive teams right now and we're supposed to essentially expand that to 60?
I appreciate that the NBA is very exclusive. 450 players get into the NBA. Everyone else is fighting to get there or play in lesser leagues.
I don't think the NBA's problem is that there's too much talent that can't fit in the league, i believe it is the opposite.
If anything, the NBA should shrink, not expand.
I see your point here, thats valid. Personally I disagree that we do not have enough talent, the talent outside NBA is kinda wild to me. As a huge Euroleague fan, I mean I wouldn't want more NBA teams that would just steal talent from Euroleague, but objectively speaking, I think talent is there. Like look at some players these top 4 Euro teams have, there is plenty NBA talent there, not stars of course, but NBA and all these other leagues are as talented as ever I feel, some NBA role players would have been stars in the past, they are sometimes burried on some of these teams. Probably doesn't look this way in April, when 10 teams try to lose, but thats why having league that awards losing is criminal behavior and why I would love relegation.
