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so explain to me why a league with majority white owners, GMs, and head coaches who are all pushing a product to majority white customers would want to keep white American players from succeeding?

Conundrum. Apparently all these rich white businessmen have no idea what two message board jockies see so clearly.

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Posted by Suntiger

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Posted on 1/27/11 at 8:09 pm to SlowFlowPro

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then they'll go to europe or the NBDL

How many players go to Europe to get around the one and done rule now? And the guys who aren't drafted wouldn't be one and done guys anyway. They would be your 5 star three year/4 year guys.

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college is bad for NBA development

It grows the NBA brand and college brand. And it's better for them to develop some rather than sitting on a bench or out of NBA all together.

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and the super studs will be drafted, like they were prior to the 1 and done rule

That's fine. It's better than watching the sham of the one and done's now. Could you imagine LeBron or D. Howard in college? No, just let those guys go straight to the NBA.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 1/27/11 at 8:21 pm to Suntiger

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And it's better for them to develop some rather than sitting on a bench or out of NBA all together.

the NBA develops players better with more coaching, superior coaching, and coaching the NBA (not college game

some rookies may not get prime minutes, but by your 2nd year you are, and by your 3rd you will get tons

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Posted by bayou2003

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Posted on 1/27/11 at 8:41 pm to cwill

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17 of 30 NBA teams are losing money.

I wonder who the 17 teams are. Pretty sure they're the small market teams with metro areas less than 1.5-2mil. Wonder if any major market teams are losing money.

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Posted by Pistol...2K4

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Posted on 1/27/11 at 9:09 pm to SlowFlowPro

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they've also tried to leech onto corporate sponsorship to support teams locally instead of fans, which affects attendance and the ability of the common fan to attend games

yep....dead on....I remember going to Dallas and Houston on a regular basis to watch the Bulls play the Mavs and Rockets. I sat lower level sometimes center court....not these days

BTW I don't believe pro basketball is dying either if anything its expanding globally....sooo many leagues around the world now.

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