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Coaches Corner
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NBA Farm Teams??The NBA needs to come up with some type of farm system, quickly, right now and immediately. The recent suspensions in college basketball have only intensified the need for a minor league system in professional basketball.The NBA is using the NCAA as a farm system and the NCAA is using the players as moneymaking pawns. Oh, but the college athlete gets a free education.? Yeah, but the NCAA and its members make hundreds of millions of dollars. If someone can compete at there profession without going to college, they should be able to that, if that is there desire. However the NBA should polished professional basketball player playing at the highest level. Everyone else should be in the minor leagues. If Not then the talent level in the Big Show will be diminished. Take Rashard Lewis of the Seattle Sonics. He is a 20 YO 6'10" athletic phenom. He however is unpolished and needs a lot of playing time. Rashard happens to play on one of the better teams in the league. Playing time is available but not the amount that he needs. If Rashard could play 30mins a game, learn the ins ands outs of basketball, by the time he turns 24 he would be unstoppable. At this rate he is going to be an average NBA player.
Work it like this: Have seven or eight rounds to the draft. Players would be under contract to their team at least until 3 years after their college class graduates. Meaning a high school grad would have a 7 year contract and a college grad would have a 3 year contract. Each player gets 2 free trips from the minors to the big leagues, on there 3rd trip they would either stick in the NBA, be traded or released. This could be the basis for a top flite NBA |
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