Yabusele and Zizic may very well have been drafted because the C's don't want them here this year. The Celtic's know all about their contracts and drafted them probably as much because of those contracts as their actual talent. It may be very hard for them to force the C's to bring them to the NBA this year or even next and that may very well be exactly what the C's want.
Lol.
I guess you must not understand the situation? The C's have 9 players under guaranteed contracts for next year already, that is before the draft. Brown will make 10. If the C's do not sign Bentil, Jackson and Nader to contracts by I believe by the start of the NBA year they will be unprotected in the D league.<Not exactly sure the rules on that. Nader likely will just go to the D league. Bentil and Jackson may very well get minimum rookie contracts. If Bentil and Jackson sign you have 12 under contract.
The way a 'draft and stash' works is roughly as follows:
1. The player has to agree to be stashed.
2. The team has to offer a qualifying contract. For first round picks, this is according to rookie scale and includes guaranteed money. For second round picks, there is not scale restriction but usually they are for minimum contract level money and only rarely include guaranteed money.
3. The player needs to 'refuse to sign' the contract and instead, go play pro ball for another league.
4. This situation keeps the team's draft rights active for up to a full year _after_ the player stops playing under another pro contract. This can carry over year after year.
So, no, if Bentil, Jackson and Nader all end up stashed in Maine, they will not be 'unprotected'. The Cs will retain their draft rights.
Basically, the only way a team can lose it's draft rights on the player is if they rescind the contract offer or the player takes a year off from playing basketball in order to shake the draft rights. I don't know if either has ever happened before. If so, it has to be pretty rare.
Stashing in the D-League is convenient for the team, because the player is kept close, here in the USA and gets the benefit of shared coaching systems. Unfortunately, a stashed player is playing on a D-League contract (paid by the league, not the team) and those suck. Most players will make more money if they play internationally in some pro league in Turkey, Israel, Spain or wherever. It's not NBA money, but it's better than D-League money.