[sammybuckeye13Participant]

The NBA, unlike the other major sports, never stops giving. In baseball, the season lasts about 7 months, then there’s some sporadic free agent signings, and spring training stars like four months after the season ends; the draft is during the season, and it never gets much publicity, and it’s hard to really get a handle on who the prospects really are. In the NFL, you have a relatively short 22-week season (including playoffs), then you have 2.5 months until the draft, then another 3 months until training camp. I’m not much of a hockey fan. Whereas in the NBA…

The season ends usually in mid-June. And the excitement hardly stops. 10-15 days later you have the draft, and then the free agent frenzy starts. Right after free agency begins, the summer leagues start up; in what other sport do you get to see your team play (at least at the exhibition level), and their best new prospects play, just over a month after the season ends? For example, I’m a Jazz fan, and even though they lost to the Bobcats, it was an awesome game, and it was awesome seeing them and Gordon Hayward play after their season ended a few weeks ago. The summer leagues take up the better part of July, and free agency goes through at least some of August; then you have just 12 or so weeks until the season starts up again. The debating, the speculation and the hype never end, and thus the excitement never ends.

[llperez]

yup. Add in the international play in the olympics and the world championships and basketball is about as close to year round as it gets.

[Stojakovicfor3Participant]

Thats exactly what I was thinking. Theres the regular season, then the playoffs, then the draft, then free agent signing period, then summer league, then training camp, then FIBA, then pre-season, and then the next season starts

[OldSkoolBasketballParticipant]

free agency isn’t usually this big of a deal. I do wish that the NBA have a type of farm system like the MLB. Instead of stashing players to Europe they should play in like minor league system with other American players and I’m not talking about the D-League because that doesn’t help anyone except for the Warriors.

[Toronto16Participant]

Best league in the world.

[llperez]

but there better not be another lockout. They have way too much time to get somehting done and if they lockout again im gonna be pissed.

[SubZeroParticipant]

What exactly is the lockout?

[joecheck88Participant]

ill let someone better explain a lockout. but i think if the nba has a lockout, it will kill ratings. us people on this site will still watch but more casual fans will turn off it like hockey(not as bad but it will only make the nfl look even better(assuming they dont lockout)). but the nba needs to fix their contracts to players. rookie contracts should only be 2 years and max contracts should only be 4 and the money needs to be less so other teams can operate without having to hold all their money(like new orleans isnt looking to make their team better because they are strapped for cash). max contract should be like 4 years 50 million(guys like lebron) and rookie contracts should be 2 years and money depends on the pick. league minimum should be like 350000. these guys are getting paid way too much and its hurting the league. obviously the salary cap would lower as well but it would keep operating costs down and teams like new orleans and memphis can make money on the year because this is a business. there is no way a player should make 30 mil a year(even though he is the best player in the game, kobe).

[llperez]

i want to defend the owners and see contracts go down SLIGHTLY, but then i just look at whats going on this summer with guys like amir johnson and darko and others getting PAID, so whatever. Let teams spend whatever they want if thats how they want to do things. Honestly, i think the current system is pretty solid. Just maybe take 1 year off the max length of a contract.

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