CHARACTER ONE
NBA basketball players, agents, and investors are thinking too small! They should be thinking about owning their own basketball league. Not just playing for the NBA.
CHARACTER TWO
What do you mean? What could be better than the NBA?
CHARACTER ONE
Just look at all the organizations that have taken on the NFL. Remember the XFL, the USFL, the AAF, and the WFL? They all tried to take on the NFL. But the NBA is much weaker. The NBA would be a far easier monopoly to break!
CHARACTER TWO
How would you even get started?
CHARACTER ONE
Just think of all the basketball courts sitting empty around the world. Basketball is a worldwide sport. In the USA alone every weekend there are empty basketball courts at junior high schools and high schools all over America. It would be super easy to take on the NBA by playing four-on-four full court, or three-on-three full court, because there would be far more fast breaks, dunks, and entertainment!
CHARACTER TWO
Why would you even do that?
CHARACTER ONE
Because we have an excess supply of great basketball players! And we have a terrible game today. Five-on-five basketball is boring because there's no more constant running gunning, no showtime basketball, like the fans really love. All they do is basically go from three-point line to three-point line.
CHARACTER TWO
What's the problem again?
CHARACTER ONE
Basketball is boring! The players used to be 6 ft tall. Each player took up 6 * 6 * 6 = 216 ft³ of space. Now the players are more like 7 ft tall. That's 7 * 7 * 7 = 343 ft³ of space. The players take up so much room the players can't fast break like they used to! It's mathematics! The math says we need to decrease the number of players on the floor.
CHARACTER TWO
But what about all the other stuff?
CHARACTER ONE
We have all the tools to fix everything today! We have computer programming. We have smartphones! Every single person who goes to the games can be the press! They can be the ones to film all the highlights using their cell phones, and they can be the ones to publish all the highlights on social media! It all can be done in a super inexpensive fashion.
CHARACTER TWO
As an investor, and entrepreneur, and a computer programmer, I see tons of potential in what you're talking about!
CHARACTER ONE
Yes, all you got to do is get one retired NBA superstar who still loves to run and gun, and you could start a four-on-four full court league, or a three-on-three full court league! It would take minimal investment compared to trying to take on the NFL.
CHARACTER TWO
And the players could be the owners! There could be stock options. There could be ownership potential for players.
CHARACTER ONE
Yes, there is very little standing in the way of taking on the NBA with a brand new league, perhaps starting first with reality TV show about starting up the new league, and about negotiating everything to get the new league going. There is incredible opportunity here. imagine going around the country recruiting fantastic basketball players not quite good enough for the NBA, but unbelievably great dunkers, passers, and runners.
CHARACTER TWO
I love it! I'm going to talk to every filmmaker, movie maker, basketball player, investor, angel investor, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur that I know.
Copyright (c) 2020 BradMD (Brad Hennenfent, MD) all rights reserved. This is part of an ongoing treatment and script for TV shows, games, leagues, tournaments, movies, videos, etc.
