Ok, heres an EXTREMELY radical thought.
Pay the top 30 college type coaches or deserving NBA retreads - guys like Coach K, Roy Williams, Mike Dunleavy :laugh: , to coach these NBA minor league teams.
Each team must be located in their associated NBA city.
Each team will pay full scholarship for their players to the local university (if the player desires to attend-no rebate if they don't!). I can't think of any NBA team that doesn't have a 1st-rate college nearby. Practice and training schedules will accomodate a certain amount of collegiate scholastic activity.
The players will also be paid a salary by the pro team. Lets say 25-250k for 12-15 players. NBA sets up rules, etc. without interference from NBA Players Assoc. We're talking about less than $3M total in player salaries here. Just half an Eddie Robinson if you will (and isn't that all we really got last year anyway?)
The coaches can be paid whatever and if I were the team, I'd give them incentives based on who they develop into pros.
Use the same type facilities for training, etc. as the WNBA teams are doing. Hell, kick them out altogether and make room for these guys. (Re-paint locker rooms from pink?) The WNBA is going to pay the freight for the existence of this league anyway. And at least some good will come of it. Although, there was that historical FIRST SLAM DUNK EVER in the WNBA the other day...
The draft contracts to one round. The rest is recruiting baby!
Play the games in the big boys arenas.
Encourage movement between the minors and the pros. Remember how pitchers warm up with a couple games in triple A after an injury? How 'bout Crawford coming back from injury in the minors! :laugh:
Follow the same kind of game schedules that colleges do. Run the tournament in the same fashion. 100 major colleges and 64 get in = 30 teams and lets say 16-20 get in [4 brackets of 4 or 5].
Get a TV contract. If possible get regional tv contracts with a network televising national games.
In short suck out the best college coaches and the best college players leaving the NCAA with exactly what they've always claimed to have had---student / athletes. Create your own NCAA. Go head to head against their games / schedules.
Pro Teams will now have more expenses, but have a great deal more flexibility to build their teams from.
Sure it might be as tough a sell as watching the WNBA (could anything be as tough as that?), but in the end watching the NBA could become a whole lot easier! And wouldn't that alone make it all worthwhile? So if getting Kwame and Diop out of real NBA games (oh check that---were they in that many real NBA games? :laugh

and fielding more skilled experienced players is the result I'm all for it.
May the NCAA (slime-bucket organization that it is) rest in peace.