After a decade in Japan, much of it devoted to spreading his love of basketball to the masses, Isaac Sojourner is without a team for the upcoming season.
Sojourner's situation highlights one of the primary problems of the bj-league: all players have short-term (maximum one-year) contracts. And this creates unnecessary havoc for each team's front office, as well as being detrimental to each player's career on and off the court.
"The league needs to start handing out two- to three-year contacts," Sojourner told The Japan Times. "That way the player can focus on basketball, not where his next meal is coming from. The fans get to look forward to the future seasons because maybe (a team) just signed their favorite player for three years.