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  • Posted on: Fri, 06/08/2018 - 2:37pm #68588
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    OhCanada-
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    Adam Silver on expanding the NBA Draft to 4 or 5 rounds: “We’ve thought about it. … We’ve had very, very preliminary discussions with the Player’s Association about that.”

    https://www.blazersedge.com/2018/6/4/17427206/nba-expanding-draft-beyond-two-rounds-adam-silver

    Ive been saying for years there is enough talent to expand to 3 rounds. Apparently the Players Association is against it as vets would end up being pushed out of the league.

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  • Posted on: Fri, 06/08/2018 - 3:30pm #1118962
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     There may be enough talent, but does the league really need another round in the draft. If adding a round would be for the G-League I don’t see why they don’t just have a G-League draft for all the guys who don’t go in the NBA draft. They could do it a week or two later. Half the second round picks don’t ever make a regular season roster  for the team that picks them, so I don’t see the need for a third round in the draft.

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    • Posted on: Fri, 06/08/2018 - 3:44pm #1118963
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      … for players if the draft is expanded. All it does is take away mobility options for 30 more players. 

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  • Posted on: Fri, 06/08/2018 - 4:12pm #1118968
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     Half the lottery bombs out of the league every year.  By the time we get to the third round it will be the rights to International draft spree.  Maybe when every team has an established G league team and the NCAA dissolves.

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  • Posted on: Fri, 06/08/2018 - 5:51pm #1118985
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     Define enough talent?  A large amount of second round picks fail to make 15 man rosters. For me enough talent means a lot of players per year that are good NBA players aren’t being drafted. Looking at the top 10 undrafted guys since 1989 doesn’t show that. Ben Wallace, Bruce Bowen, Brad Miller, Avery Johnson, Udonis Haslem, Jose Calderon, Raja Bell, Wesley Matthews, Jeremy Lin, and JJ Berea.  Not a bad list, but that’s over 28 years and some of those guys might not have even been drafted in a 3 round draft. You’ll always have players fall through the cracks. It happens in every sport.

    Look at it another way, almost every year teams will sell second round picks. Teams barely value second round picks right now, outside very high ones.  So I just don’t see enough talent. Maybe if the goal is to develop a true minor league system. That could make sense, but we are still a ways off. I mean every team doesn’t even own a G-League team yet. Its getting close, but 26 last year, 27 next year.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Posted on: Sat, 06/09/2018 - 2:36am #1119017
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     I hope they up the pay for the g league if they do this then

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  • Posted on: Sat, 06/09/2018 - 3:24am #1119021
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    Teams can still sign an undrafted player and rosters are often not filled until after training camp. Plus 3rd round contracts would be unguaranteed so the move wouldn’t make much difference to teams.

    The only thing a team might like is it would effectively give them an extra nominal trading piece in save using a lot of heavily protected 2nd rounders that way.

     

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