The Houston Rockets proposed to the NBA's competition committee that the league flips the draft and free agency.

Members of the Boston Celtics' front office have also been for the change to the calendar.

The NFL conducts their free agency period before the draft.

The idea has gained some momentum with support from a few prominent general managers.

"As a staff, we have been kicking this around for a couple of summers now," says Gersson Rosas, the Rockets' executive vice president of basketball operations, who presented the idea to representatives from the league's 30 teams at a meeting in Chicago ahead of May's draft lottery. "Is there a better way?"