The name change is, more or less, window dressing.
"By the way, maybe the biggest problem in Japanese basketball is that so many JBL players are paid so much for doing so little," a longtime basketball pundit told me a few years ago. "No player other than (Yuta) Tabuse brings in enough revenue to justify the salary they get.
"If JBL teams really had to pay the players a salary that would allow the teams to break even, then the players would have to start working harder, and more would consider the bj-league an option."