"Take Pippen, for example. He's already decided to retire, and he's extremely popular in China. It's entirely possible he could go play there for another year."
Stern mentioned a name.
The NBA only has 30 teams, so the player base is small, and there might only be a few stars retiring each year.
But because there are so few teams, the competition is also more intense.
A new group of players comes in through the draft every year, which means some people have to leave.
Many players are quietly cut and end up leaving the league.
But they're still perfectly capable of competing; there just aren't any spots left for them in the NBA.
So in Stern's view, it was entirely possible to replicate the model they were using for soccer.
Chen Yu glanced over at David Kahn again.
He had only just learned from their earlier conversation why Stern had brought him along.
