NBA Draft, what happened to this thing?

I know, I know, another Sport's Blog, but please let me have this one. I will get back to more nerdy pursuits shortly.

I'm watching the NBA Draft and I can't stop wondering, 'what happened to this thing?' It used to be an event where teams picked the top College juniors and seniors to come in and help their new teams in the upcoming season. It used to be like the NFL Draft where drafted talent could have an immediate impact on the team. Now, now it is like the Major League Baseball draft where teams are just drafting for prospects and if the player ever pans out it will be years down the road.

Sure, the top 5 or 6 players could play right away, but even they will need some time to develop and will spend the first couple of years in the league buried on the end of the bench of a terrible team. As for everyone else who is drafted, no one even knows if they are any good. They seemed to be a mixture of one-and-done college players and Europeans. They are tall and athletic but there is just not enough film on them to know if they are any good. It makes for a bad draft and a even worse league.

Here is what the NBA should do. Get rid of the one-and-done rule and make it a two-and-done rule instead. They should expand the draft to 4 rounds and expand the NBA Developmental league to 15 teams. Each team would essentially be a AAA team for two NBA teams. This would allow the younger players to be put in the "minor" league and actually learn some skills and get some playing time. Then the NBA teams could promote and demote players from their farm system based on players' skills.

This makes so much sense that of course it won't happen.

Oh yeah, if professional Duke Homer Jay Bilas talks about a guy's Wing Span one more time, I am going to lose it.