By Harper Mayfield | Sports Writer
In recent years, the popularity of the NBA has exploded. Stars like LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry have fueled the league’s meteoric rise. As popular as the NBA has become, they’ve struggled to boost the status of their adjacent leagues, the WNBA and NBA G League. Both have been something of a laughing stock within the sports world for what feels like forever, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
If the NBA wants to bring extra fans to their periphery leagues, they can do exactly that in one event.