The NBA and its Minor League System

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 The NBA and its Minor League System
On True Hoop, Henry Abbott writes about the OJ Mayo fiasco and says one solution is for the NBA to have a minor league. Of course, the NBA already has a minor league, the NBDL, it just does not use it properly. Why should the NBA change its current system? Right now, the NBA is set-up to maximize owner profit. It pays almost no money for research and development, which is a huge expenditure for [link]

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