Every few months a false sense of hope surfaces on the blogosphere and in the mainstream media, where optimists peddle the message that Japan's basketball "leaders" finally have their act together, that a new men's pro league will, ahem, finally replace the outdated, increasingly irrelevant JBL and the ever-growing bj-league.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The new process will last a few years, at least until 2015, it says in the latest publicly released documents.