The NBL has how much money available for this?

Have you been under a rock for the last 12 months mate?

Is the sun a rock?

What has that got to do with free agency???


What you're referring to is a "Marquee Player," a scheme the NBL already has in place.
The current scheme is not bad in that it allows rich clubs to splurge, then pay a tax which in effect subsidises the rest of the league.

To alter the existing flow of money between the NBL and the clubs, requires an increased revenue stream (using LK's capital injection would only be a short-term fix.)

Maybe the NBL could negotiate with Foxtel, to kick-in extra cash for headline players they believe would generate more revenue...
I'm not sure it really works though?

What you're referring to is a "Marquee Player," a scheme the NBL already has in place.

Ah koberulz, still looking for the other half of your brain?

What the OP is referring to is the very definition of a "Marquee Player."

Marquee: Leading; pre-eminent: a marquee player
[With allusion to the practice of billing the name of an entertainer on the canopy over the entrance to a theatre]

However what the OP is proposing is that Marquee players be subsidised by the league.
As I said, the CURRENT scheme does not work that way, but it works well in that it allows wealthy clubs to pay overs then pay the tax back to the NBL.
As I said, to alter the flow of funds as the OP proposes would require a new (or expanded) revenue source. The NBL can't just conjure up extra money, there would need to be a way to use those players to generate extra revenue.

Ah koberulz, still looking for the other half of your brain?

What the OP is referring to is the very definition of a "Marquee Player."

What you're referring to is a "Marquee Player," and the NBL has a completely different scheme in place for those that doesn't achieve what you're trying to achieve at all, and could in fact exacerbate the problem to which this is a proposed solution.

The current marquee rule still requires the team to pay the player fully just outside the cap. What the OP is saying is that a team nominates a player for the NBL to pay instead of the club. Saying "marquee" just confused you Dazz

Regardless of what the OP is saying, I think we all should be questioning if teams are marketing their players enough and reaping the financial benefits like they were back in the day.

The Wildcats have a decent profile in Perth but I still see more Andrew Vlahov 'Kingsize big and tall' adverts than any of the current Wildcats (besides one for kids drowning) so my question is why is this the case?

If there is a player more loved in the NBL community than Damien Martin then I'd be surprised and yet he's hardly got himself plastered on Telly all the time.

Wildcats players have their own individual sponsors on their warm up kit and when they sub in that company in mentioned but we could still see far more.

Just one last thing, I think Brian Conklin would have been the ideal player to market up there in Townsville with his workmanlike attitude and MVP award and then they got rid of him... Had the OP had his way with the league then I think it would have egg on its face with how he performed and then left this season... Samhain seems like a great personality though