All hell is about to break loose in the basketball world.
With the NBA planning to start a developmental league for college-age players, the landscape of organized basketball will change dramatically, with the seriously affected parties including high schools, colleges, the NCAA, the NBA, the CBA, television partners, corporate sponsors, sports agents and street hustlers. This seismic shake-up will be felt because the NBA feels it has to do something to address the issue of younger, and often unprepared, players wanting to enter its ranks. And as a result, the CBA will be hard-pressed to stay alive, the TV networks will have to find room in an already crowded field for more basketball programming, sports agents will routinely recruit high school players, and the NCAA will be forced to confront its own hypocrisy, which helped create the environment that forced the NBA's hand. I athletic director said yesterday. To what degree, no one could possibly know, which is what makes the whole thing so frightening.