the only ghosts are the one's electing to stay home

why not take your game to the world.. travel, opportunity and secure financial stability?

an extremely dumb move to stay here and not expand your horizons

loyalty?...to sub standard leagues?

Players go overseas because more money better leagues.....Bottom line!!!

3 things KILLING our NBL.
1. Player Point System
2. Not paying for quality imports
3. Not capitalizing on young talent coming back from college.....NBL clubs continue to recycle older guys who were done being major minute players 4 years ago.....Young more exciting players come home from college and sit behind veterans who are done.....

Billy I love your passion but you could easily argue there are 3 things keeping the NBL afloat:
1) Player Point System: the idea of it is not bad and gives the teams who can't afford all big names some shot at parity
2) Not paying for quality imports: if a team can't really afford them then they shouldn't pay more. It's more important to have a sustainable team then to have one exciting season with LeBron James. Cairns are a great example of spending within their means.
3) Not capitalizing on young talent coming back from college: the truth is that just because you went to college it doesn't make you an NBL level player. If a college player is a standout they will get offers. Whilst I personally agree that the young players in the league should get more opportunities than the washed up players, it's the washed up players that the fans know and come to see, so you need to keep the paying public happy.

Interesting points, but the OP smells of another troll just stirring the pot for me...

At the end of the day people want to be entertained.....they want to get in their cars feeling like they got their money worth....watching a bunch of older slower guys who would rather lay it up than dunk is not worth the money....
You go back to when the NBL was rocking and every good team had the same formula for success 2 high paid high scoring imports 2 Olympic level Aussies and talented local role players being developed....
As I see it the point system stops teams from stacking with the best Aussie talent but at the end of the day if every team was paying the imports the most money teams would not be able to stack their teams and there lays the balance....
NBL fell way off when clubs decided to stop paying imports and start paying Boomers....I'm not saying they don't deserve to be paid but NBL clubs are a business and professional sports is an entertainment business....

By that insane logic Hugh Jackman and Heath Ledger should have hung around looking to star in the latest bit of crap to appear on tv, Kylie Minogue should have stayed on neighbour's and INXS should have stayed doing gigs at the local pubs.
Yeah, let's pass up being paid to live in a European city doing the thing you love to play at Hillcrest in the middle of winter and have to work at footlocker part time to make ends meet.

When you're a young teen, usually excelling at most sports, the reason you choose Basketball (especially over AFL) is because you dream of playing internationally and/or making seriously big money.

A wise man once said "cash rules everything around me, cream, get the money, dollar dollar bill y'all"