The NBA Development League needs further development.
By Bill Smith
Sporting News Today reported that the NBA is making a basic change in the way that the Development League is going to be managed next season. The Development League is a replacement for the original Continental Basketball Association which Isiah Thomas, the current head coach of the Florida International basketball team, bought and drove into the ground like a Canadian goose shot out of the air by a canon.
The change that the NBA is going make is to allow the current investor/owners of the teams to maintain their positions but give total control basketball operations of the teams to their NBA affiliates. The NBA teams will assume funding responsibility for basketball operations. Does that remind those of us that owned Citibank stock of the recent “bail out” and government takeover? As usual, when control is taken away from those that own the assets, there are a number of problems that Big Brother has created that will not be solved and will certainly be made worse.
The greatest problem is that there are 30 NBA teams but only 16 DL teams. That number will be increased next year to 17 as part of the change. Now, multiple … Read more at FryingPanSports