Take away the power from the players. No more picking where you want to go unless you've been in the league for 7 seasons.
Only one ref on the floor that watches only the ball handler and the player defending the ball handler. Another official on the sideline watching what the viewer at home sees looking for anything egregious or out of bounds plays.
Only one max player per team, and the rest of the roster is role players.
Feel like your first and third point would be literally impossible, unless you somehow scrap the players association
Ohh and do away with the players association.
Absurd. At least 50% of all revenues should go to the players. Without the players, there’s nothing. Owning a professional basketball team is certainly not a high-risk endeavor...
Oh uh, on second thought .......
Owners get to be owners because they built themselves into multi-millionaires. They shouldn't be penalized for it.
Players, on the other hand, are making completely ridiculous salaries for being skilled at a game.
Remember when Larry Bird signed a record rookie contract for $600,000/year ? That's not even the league minimum anymore.
Nobody pays to see the owners or the referees. Why do movie stars make huge salaries? They have a rare, extremely valuable talent and agents to maximize their return.
If the owners thought they could make more money by cutting any stars who got out of line, they would do it in a heartbeat. They don’t because the talent drives their revenue.
Ok, ok I think you're taking it to an extreme analogy.
I'm not stupid I know the league is nothing without the players. It's also nothing without the fans.
To use your analogy about movie stars, do the movie stars get catered to? Yes, absolutely. But without the director and producer a movie doesn't get made and the whole film making process would be chaos.
If an actor made all the decisions for instance could come onto a set and say - I love the color red everyone in the film should wear the color red or I'm not going to continue in this movie.
It would make for an awful movie and experience for everyone. There needs to be some order.
The nba stars are going to get theirs, I don't think it's too much to ask to let the owners and gm's run the team's.
And if they're gonna cry and threaten to run to europe, let em. Let em go compete against inferior competition, they'll look like a bunch of losers.