Steve Rifkind (Loud Records, SRC Records) starting b-ball league to rival NBDL

[Rev]

Steve Rifkind is starting an American-based basketball league called the American Basketball League.

Rifkind is the founder and chairman of Loud Records, as well as the CEO of SRC Records. Rifkind has worked with many hip hop musicians and also has worked on many marketing campaigns.

An inaugural 24-game, 12-team season will begin in January of 2013.

It will challenge the NBA's D-League by paying as much as $3,000 per month and serve as an overseas player feeder.

The league will be based in Miami, San Antonio, San Marcos, Sugarland, College Station, Ft Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Fort Walton Beach, Sebring and Corpus Christi.

The league will use FIBA rules.

Music Mogul To Create Professional League To Rival D League - RealGM Wiretap

 

[triplehate]

Im sure this will end well

 

[Richboi804]

 

[Bezerk]

A lot of D-league guys could play in Europe for bigger checks, but choose to stay in America and try to play their way into the NBA, because they can get a call-up into the NBA during the season, and the D-league is run by the NBA.

I don't think paying them more money is necessarily an incentive to play in another league

 

[Marty Funkhouser]

A lot of D-league guys could play in Europe for bigger checks, but choose to stay in America and try to play their way into the NBA, because they can get a call-up into the NBA during the season, and the D-league is run by the NBA.

I don't think paying them more money is necessarily an incentive to play in another league

Exactly, this league makes no sense.