CBS Sports | Mike Axisa: The league has identified the international scene as one of the areas it needs reform in. Currently, there’s a lot of abuse by teams in how they pursue talent on the international market, including teams entering verbal agreements with players as young as 13-years-old when the official age to sign is 16, and the league believes that a draft set-up will enable them to cut down on such cases.
However, the league is capable of and has brought the hammer down on individual cases of abuse in the international scene before — when teams were overpaying for talent beyond what they were supposed to spend.