Major misconceptions regarding the labor dispute between Owners and NBA's Players

[QUOTE=Math2]:wtf: Age limit of 19?!?!? Great, more and more busts, more failed prospects, and YAY! MOre dilution![/QUOTE]

You do realize these changes already occurred right? Before that CBA was implemented, any US player could enter the draft after high school and international players could enter the draft at 18.

[QUOTE=Sarcastic]It will never be because no one wants to play in Cleveland, Milwaukee, Sacramento, etc unless they have to.

If you implement a hard cap system, it may end up having a completely counter intuitive effect, and the big market teams may become even more desirable as the players may seek new revenue streams and look to the big markets to secure endorsement deals.[/QUOTE]
It may or may not be. Players get endorsement in small markets. Lebron in Cleveland get tons of endorsement. Anyway, the big market team won't be able to afford too many stars.

[QUOTE=Clippersfan86]If the NBA wants to baby small market teams then they need to assign each team a financial adviser and force them to follow rules which increase profits. If some small market teams can be popular and win titles.. and make profit... then all of them can IF they follow the same blueprint. Maybe not to the same degree but it is possible.[/QUOTE]
That's really not the kind of system we're talking about here.