How to Fix the NBA

Curb the blackness.

 

why not stop there? if you go rid of 7 or 8 teams, i think the rest of the league is pretty much fixed, no?

playing too much basketball isn't a problem, imo. if you reduce the number of games, you reduce the revenue.

that's silly. tv revenue is already shared and the good teams already do their part to boost lesser teams revenue by playing in their arenas.

eh, i don't think the refs really hurt the product that much. people will always complain about calls. i doubt college refs are any better than nba refs.

again, you're killing revenue with this.

good luck with that.

free agency sucks. this might be an answer, not sure.

ne change they should sort out is equalizing based on state income tax. all players should be considered employees of the nba and they should all pay the same tax rate in aggregate. you'd need to get some kind of dispensation from state/local gov'ts, but as long as it wasn't relatively neutral, you could probably get them to agree. miami shouldn't have a leg up on landing free agents because $10 mil there is worth more than $10 mil in los angeles.

they've done this a lot already. in the day, teams used to run iso's all the time. now, they don't so much. 5 second backdown rule, no more illegal d... not sure what else you can really do other than extend the shot clock or let defenders get away with more physical defense. the fact is, lebron scoring 50 is the kind of stuff that makes people watch. lebron passing to joel anthony, not so much.

so shorten them to 5 minutes?

48 min is fine.

 

If you view the NBA as one entity rather than a group of individual teams and players then doing things to make the playing field level for all teams makes a lot of sense. A league where all the teams have an equal shot at a championship is going to be a lot more fun to watch than a league where 15% of the teams have a legit shot and 85% do not.

On the player endorsement revenues, do you think anyone would be paying these guys to endorse products if they were not playing for the NBA? When a model signs a deal with an agency I am sure that part of her earnings will come back to the agency for a period of time. NBA players are not really that different from models.

 

you could theoretically have a restriction in player contracts that states they are not allowed to sign individual endorsement deals and instead have all endorsements go thru the league... not sure if that's legal, tho. and would that mean the nba would sign an exclusive deal with nike so that all nba players have to endorse nike? and if it wasn't exlusive to a single shoe company, would lebron james be out there touting nike AND adidas AND converse...? kinda makes an endorsement sort of pointless...

 

the league could assign certain players to endorse certain products..... Lebron could do Nike, Kobe could do addidas, etc.

 

The NBA Finals had its highest ratings in 11 years. I doubt anybody in the NBA would agree to a franchise tag except Cleveland.

 

that's double jeopardy Nike isn't gonna give you as much money if you're also gonna ndorse their competitor.

 

I'd guess the Magic would be pretty open to one.

 

Who was in the finals this year.

 

so, what, like an endorsement draft?