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Mystro

Years ago

My idea for NBL imports

most teams barely get 2x good imports and you want them to get 3x?

there's only one ball, how will they all survive?

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swish

Years ago

Have to agree with regard to the purpose of the league. With so much of our best talent playing overseas these days the NBL is not the home of many of our National Reps. It is a sports / entertainment business NOT a player development league.

With league expansion on everyones agenda we are gonna need more talent, so allowing more foreign players wil be required to maintain or even improve the standard of play.

The obvious risk is clubs overspending - so a salary cap is still important. The player points system then needs to be revisited because idealy we want all teams to have as much talent as the league can afford.

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RMQ

Years ago

The NBL used to be seen as a league to develop our national team. So the import rule made sense.

Is this still the aim of the league?

If the league is supposed to be a business that puts out an exciting engaging product then they should abolish or expand the import restrictions.

Casual fans don't care where players come from, they just want to see talent.

In the short term it may take local player jobs, but all it will do in the long term is force local players to get better due to increased competition.

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Wilson Sting

Years ago

Maybe if it's 3 or more seasons with the same club. Otherwise Perth will just snap up all these players after they've played 3 years with someone else.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Good idea for the fans, but Goodbye for local players. The whole NBL team will be imported, and our Aussie players will be scraping in $50k in the SEABL or NZNBL.

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jimmy.hoff.email@gmail.com

Years ago

The french league used to have a rule where each team could have 3 imports but only 2 could be on the court at a time.

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George

Years ago

My attempt at translating

"If an import plays 3 or more seasons in the NBL should he be able to be considered a local player and not count as an import?"

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orbit

Years ago

English?

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