Will this effect the one-done crowd or do the same rules apply to them, no D league until after their 19th Birthday?
D League to give big raises
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According to the NBDL's own site:
17. Who is eligible to be drafted?
"The league signs about 180 players each year to join the pool of draft-eligible prospects. They include college players who went undrafted in the NBA Draft, international prospects, and players who were recently waived by NBA teams following training camp. Players must be 18 years old to be eligible for the NBA D-League Draft, as opposed to the NBA’s age minimum of 19."
Personally, I'm thrilled they have significantly raised their salaries. I have no desire to see kids who have no interest in attending college or in getting an education taking scholarships away from those who do. If all OAD's went straight to the NBDL out of college, I'd be happy.
17. Who is eligible to be drafted?
"The league signs about 180 players each year to join the pool of draft-eligible prospects. They include college players who went undrafted in the NBA Draft, international prospects, and players who were recently waived by NBA teams following training camp. Players must be 18 years old to be eligible for the NBA D-League Draft, as opposed to the NBA’s age minimum of 19."
Personally, I'm thrilled they have significantly raised their salaries. I have no desire to see kids who have no interest in attending college or in getting an education taking scholarships away from those who do. If all OAD's went straight to the NBDL out of college, I'd be happy.
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per diem for a sandwich...
The farther up the ladder one goes the tougher the competition. Some kids need to go NDL. Some will wash out.
I hope some are inclined to see education and b'ball as important to their professional development as Arch mentioned above.
The farther up the ladder one goes the tougher the competition. Some kids need to go NDL. Some will wash out.
I hope some are inclined to see education and b'ball as important to their professional development as Arch mentioned above.
While I think this is dumb, it does fit the agenda of why the one & done rule is in place to begin with. Reason I think it dumb is the NBA has decided, decision made when the one & done rule was put in place, that they had rather pay for players to be developed than to continue to use the most effective development program imaginable that was always totally free for them, the NCAA. I have never understood why they felt paying for what they had been getting for free for so many years was a good idea but that is maybe another thread's to discuss.
I am personally glad to see this, if we can not have a total elimination by the NBA of this one & done nonsense, then this is IMO the next best thing. It really depends on how much they increase the NBADL pay checks but I suspect at this point they increase as much as they have to until they get the fly wheel of today's one & done players taking the NBADL option. They may have to suppliment the regular pay check with a signing bonus for selected players but to do that they would have to assign the rights of a NBADL player to a specific team so that team could turn around and handle the bonus and pay agreement.
Dumb move #2 IMO, they do not look at the most successful PAID FOR DL model that exists, baseball. See baseball drafts kids out of high school and sends them all to their developmental program and to entice them they pay out solid bonuses. Only 1 team holds their rights and those kids are drafted along with every other kid drafted, no mystery what big league club owns your rights or what your path to the bigs must be. PLus you have the sing and get paid now in our minors or don't be able to play for pay for 3yrs which makes it a easy decision for the kid looking to get paid ASAP. In the way the NBA is structuring this there is still a boat load of mystery involved and that creates uncertainty and uncertainty makes a kid many times go back to the known path way as opposed to the maybe way.
So the NBA has not only decided now for many years to pay for what they used to get for free, they have as well ignored the most successful PAID FOR DL model in existence for a more clunky system of mystery? The crazy thing is this is a decision made by multi-millionares and billionaires that made much better decisions for the most part to protect their current sources of income? Hard for me to understand but I have never understood to the need to pay millions to fix a problem that really never existed, maybe proof that I am not a millionaire, guess I value what I do have more than those with excess so extreme that a few million is nothing more than a grain of sand on a beach.
I wonder if this will effect any of the 2017 kids that have already committed to college programs?
Is this effective immediately?
As David said:
They may have to supplement the regular pay check with a signing bonus for selected players but to do that they would have to assign the rights of a NBADL player to a specific team so that team could turn around and handle the bonus and pay agreement.
Oddly, we may also see a great many thinking "they have the right stuff" and go sign then later get cut no college ball to go back to for tune up...lots to consider.
As David said:
They may have to supplement the regular pay check with a signing bonus for selected players but to do that they would have to assign the rights of a NBADL player to a specific team so that team could turn around and handle the bonus and pay agreement.
Oddly, we may also see a great many thinking "they have the right stuff" and go sign then later get cut no college ball to go back to for tune up...lots to consider.
From what I read, this is not a new rule, the NBDL option has been available to high school grads. But the salary has been pretty meager. There's actually not much of a change, money-wise. These salaries aren't going to entice many, if any, OAD's to go that route. From an article re: the change:
"For the past couple seasons the salary structure in place for the D-League has consisted of tiers. There were three tiers of salaries: $13,000 (C), $19,000 (B) and $25,500 (A) and each team had a salary cap of $173,000 on top of that.
For the 16-17 D-League season, there will only be two tiers for salaries as the “C” has been eliminated. The new salary levels will be $19,500 (B-Level) and $26,000 (A-Level) and the salary cap will rise to $209,000.
Adam Silver and D-League commissioner Malcolm Turner have been working in conjunction to build the league to 30 teams and when that point comes, there is a belief that salaries could be tripled to remain competitive.
D-League call ups made nearly $5 million in salary last season so the chance for a payoff is present."
"For the past couple seasons the salary structure in place for the D-League has consisted of tiers. There were three tiers of salaries: $13,000 (C), $19,000 (B) and $25,500 (A) and each team had a salary cap of $173,000 on top of that.
For the 16-17 D-League season, there will only be two tiers for salaries as the “C” has been eliminated. The new salary levels will be $19,500 (B-Level) and $26,000 (A-Level) and the salary cap will rise to $209,000.
Adam Silver and D-League commissioner Malcolm Turner have been working in conjunction to build the league to 30 teams and when that point comes, there is a belief that salaries could be tripled to remain competitive.
D-League call ups made nearly $5 million in salary last season so the chance for a payoff is present."
First, yeah, the NBADL was allowed for kids direct out of high school when the one & done rule was put in place, the reason the flood gates did not open for the NBADL for the one & done kid was the meager pay in the DL and the fact they got much more exposure from playing college ball.
That average of 5mill for NBA call ups from the DL is a bit skewed, the vets that get called up are no longer dealing with the rookie contract structure, it is sketchy as to if a kid could come right out of high school to the DL and not be subject to the rookie salary structure a kid that is drafted after a year in college is subject to. I highly doubt a kid could bypass the rookie contract limitations just by playing a single DL season. I strongly believe their rookie contract structure limitations begin when they get to the "bigs" for the first time, be it drafted to the NBA or called up from the DL. I don't recall a test case for this?
I was wondering if that figure for D-league call-ups was a total for all the call-ups, not the mean, David. This article from Fansided explains it pretty well.
http://upsidemotor.com/2015/06/18/nba-d-league-salary-call-up-exposure-growth-robert-covington/
http://upsidemotor.com/2015/06/18/nba-d-league-salary-call-up-exposure-growth-robert-covington/
Won't have any impact. As I've stated a few times, playing for a college power for one year (or really any college team, honestly) gives a kid way more exposure and brand-building opportunity than a year in the D-League does.
College basketball games are constantly on national TV. D-League games are notttt. lol.
College basketball games are constantly on national TV. D-League games are notttt. lol.
I agree but want explain that the exposure advantage is for building their fan following brand, not really for their exposure to the NBA scouts. They would actually get more exposure to the NBA folks playing in the DL because that is NBA people controlling both game play as well as practice and off court stuff.
That brand building is monetized in commercial endorsement deals as well as that feeling of my followers love me that is harder to get playing for the crickets in DL games.
This is spot on. After a few months of being a BMOC and being treated like kings, many have shoe contracts already lined up.
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