That is crazyness. If a player wants to change his number he has to pay out the nose?!? Damn I hope they tell them that when they sign up. I am having flashbacks to high shcool when it was sign up on a sheet of paper what number you want.
The player buys inventory? That sounds bogus. But the NBA does make a player give a season's notice before changing a number. I suppose that would apply to a name change as well.
This is straight ********. So are we to believe that if Cassius Clay or Lew Alcindor wanted to change their names they would have to buy up all their unsold jerseys?
Dude should buy them all then make a freakin fortune selling them as throwbacks in a few years. It would be like owning the guys rookie card. He has a major breakout year in the next 5 and those things are selling for about $1000 a peice.