Hunter: "Maybe we can start our own league"

OK. So it's the current crop of players acting in their best interest--not in the interests of players moving forward as the union claimed to be concerned with. Just wanted to clarify that (that sounds like it's a negative attached with your idea/position... it's not. I just wanted to clarify).

Future players might as well play for the teams and owners that fans recognize. Presumably Andre Drummond or Jared Sullinger would rather play for the Chicago Bulls or the LA Lakers or Boston Celtics than part of some startup league that simply exists to enrich the current batch of players.

I don't think there's a chance in hell. All the NBA has to do is lure some players to the NBA from the current batch (which it could do by paying some of the very best players top dollar--with the union out the window, why would there be solidarity between players?) and attract top college talent.

The NBA owners have too much equity invested in their current intellectual property to simply dry up and go away. There are great players all over the world and more blossom into marketable elements every year... a new league cannot create the history or fan bases that the NBA already has cultivated in a short enough time to convince the new players to play for them, instead.

Ed O.