So, GS wins 3rd Championship in 4yrs. The NCAA in hot seat for under-the-table back door sponsoring. Too much of "potential" guessing on draft night.
League eyeing solution:
1. Hard cap
2. Expansion (water down league)
3. Allowing High School kids to enter draft
I was expecting the exact opposite:
1. Keep soft cap
2. Go down to say...22 teams from 30
3. Raise age limit to Sophomores....or two years removed from High School.
Personally, I don't mind the flexibility of a player going where ever he wants to go. I don't think it would be such an issue if the league as a whole was smaller and therefore more competitive - or if the draft was packed with proven prospects.
Thoughts?
Thing is, they were never going to reduce the teams by 25-30%. That would mean owners voting to put other owners out in the cold. This would almost certainly never happen.
If anything, they would expand the league. More revenue.
David Stern's vision was to make the NBA a Global Brand. I wonder if Silver's intention is to
continue this.