This is not necessarily a bad idea - but logistics make it tough. ensuring two games a week at each venue would be tough on bookings and getting home crowds twice a week is also tough.

pros don't like playing 2 games a week , unless you are talking very good ( NBA or euro) money

Quite an impressive idea, would love to see maybe like 1 superstar come play 2 games each from the NBA, Lebron, Durant, Melo How amazing would that be...

There's a lot you could do with this idea. A 3 month season that doesn't clash with NBA or Euro leagues could certainly bring a lot talent here. The only downside would be directly competing with AFL and NRL . Mind you the NBL was strong in the early 90s against those codes in the winter seasons . I don't think the change to summer for the NBL was that beneficial.

Clashing with the AFL is not wise.

Firstly, you're clashing with the World Cup and the Olympics twice every four years, so you can't have a season at all.

Secondly, you're now clashing with the business end of the AFL and NRL seasons, instead of clashing with their pre-season, and the NBL is having enough trouble with the latter at the moment. The former would be suicide.

Thirdly, there's now no period of the NBL season that doesn't clash, as opposed to the current four clash-free months.

Fourthly, you're clashing with state leagues and the NZNBL, which could have all sorts of negative consequences on the Breakers, NZ-based players, and fringe players who use SEABL/etc to improve their games in the off-season.

Fifthly, why would anyone in the NBA willingly sacrifice the two months off they get after a gruelling season for a couple hundred grand, if that?

Koberulz makes good points the biggest one for me is the clash with World Cups and Olympics yes they don't usually start until August but there is still the lead up to them in July. Getting our best Aussies together from June is also easier said than done as some Euro leagues go deep into June so they would miss entire preseason and start of reg season. As for imports hoping to make an impression to NBA scouts fairly sure they would still rather play summerleague in the U.S.

"Firstly, when are the games pretty much ever before August?"
For the players playing in them? Every single time.

"Secondly, too be honest I don't think the afl would affect it that much."
You're wrong.

"Fourthly, obviously other leagues such as seabl would rotate to summer"
This is ridiculous. You're expecting dozens of junior and senior leagues to rearrange themselves to fit around the NBL, regardless of how that might affect them. It won't work.

"Fifth, we are talking fringe nba guys/young guys who have mostly rode the bench all season and would probably love the opportunity to go play big minutes before training camp to get better and get paid probably an extra 50% of there minimum nba salary for a short stint..."
Well, you've knocked off anyone who wants to play Summer League, because the NBL is now on at the same time, nobody under contract would be allowed to play here...it's a ridiculously limited pool.

stick with summer - afl / rugby rule the sports media winter and the average sports fan can only spend so much on tickets. summer there is less local media competition - only really cricket.

Yeah, there's a reason there's less competition with other sports over summer - it's cause everyone's on holiday and doing stuff.

With a bit of smart scheduling, the AFL/NRL thing would very little impact - and the idea that AFL dominates the sports media, well they dominate it in summer as well, and the NBL continues to not get a look in.

I think the general availability of spectators is much greater in winter than it is in summer, and it worked well back in the day. It was definitely a mistake to switch to a summer league.