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[QUOTE="moqui, post: 260549, member: 214"]
they like it mostly because it serves as a free minor league . . . once they start paying millions of dollars for that service, it will lose it's appeal.
 
I just took a quick look at the 2011 draft.  The underclassmen drafted in the two rounds add up to a total of 120 possible semesters - that would $12 million in bonuses.  On top of that, 19 seniors were drafted - another $19 million.  That is $31 million that the NBA would pay out.  Their free development league is now costing them over a million dollars per team per year.  The best way to cut down on that cost will be to let the marginal seniors go undrafted, and try to pick them up in the UFA market . . . and most of the seniors are marginal - 12 of the 19 were picked in the second round, and 18 of 19 went after the 20th pick in the draft.  So, your scheme might work in the short term, but in the long term it would probably create a disincentive to graduate.
 
that said, I think you have the germ of an idea in your incentive-based drafting scheme, but it needs more detail to actually be workable.
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