Is there a prohibition on NBA owners also owning an overseas franchise?

[Rick Robeys Return]

With all the discussion of the relative value of Yabusele going to the CBA, i.e. whether by taking the better money it hurts his development compared to playing in the Euro Leagues...And with the growing number of draft and stash players generally, I'm wondering if there is any prohibition on NBA ownership groups having a  stake in an overseas franchise.

If not, you could imagine an NBA team essentially owning (part of) a team, say in the Spanish League, and stashing players there and  paying them more than the D-League currently allows, while also keeping them in a training and development regimen consistent with the NBA team's wishes, while also putting them up against high level competition.

Presumably there is some NBA by-law against this, but just looking to confirm....

[RAAAAAAAANDY]

With all the discussion of the relative value of Yabusele going to the CBA, i.e. whether by taking the better money it hurts his development compared to playing in the Euro Leagues...And with the growing number of draft and stash players generally, I'm wondering if there is any prohibition on NBA ownership groups having a  stake in an overseas franchise.

If not, you could imagine an NBA team essentially owning (part of) a team, say in the Spanish League, and stashing players there and  paying them more than the D-League currently allows, while also keeping them in a training and development regimen consistent with the NBA team's wishes, while also putting them up against high level competition.

Presumably there is some NBA by-law against this, but just looking to confirm....

Kind of.

I'm pretty sure you can own one, or a stake in one. But I believe it has to be approved unanimously by the other owners.

[PAOBoston]

Maybe they could work out some agreement for a loan like teams do in soccer. Negotiate a fee and then you have the player for one season.

[jambr380]

Interesting thought - I would love to see this done, even as part of an agreement with another team (not necessarily part ownership). Maybe then the NBA would take a more serious look at having a real minor league system.

[saltlover]

Yeah, I had this idea a year or so ago, when we started accumulating so many picks.  Just create a team in Europe to place all the draft and stash guys, and hire a Stevens assistant to run it so the players come over ready to go.

[greece66]

The Spurs have done it indirectly since Tony Parker is majority owner and president of a quite good french club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASVEL_Basket

[Rick Robeys Return]

The Spurs have done it indirectly since Tony Parker is majority owner and president of a quite good french club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASVEL_Basket

That's interesting. Is there any history of one or more of the Spurs many draft and stash players having played for ASVEL Basket?

[greece66]

The Spurs have done it indirectly since Tony Parker is majority owner and president of a quite good french club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASVEL_Basket

That's interesting. Is there any history of one or more of the Spurs many draft and stash players having played for ASVEL Basket?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livio_Jean-Charles

and ofc Mr le President during the lockout

[Rick Robeys Return]

The Spurs have done it indirectly since Tony Parker is majority owner and president of a quite good french club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASVEL_Basket

That's interesting. Is there any history of one or more of the Spurs many draft and stash players having played for ASVEL Basket?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livio_Jean-Charles

and ofc Mr le President during the lockout

Now we're talking! Very clever, Spurs. Worthy of emulating.

Maybe we can talk to Paul Pierce about coming on board an Exec VP for Development and encourage him to buy an Italian club side? Last trip to Rome was memorable and paid off!

[greece66]

@Rick Robeys Return

I would go for a more corrupt country than Italy tbh

You can buy a bball team for a bag of chips in Belarus and then if you have the right connections (wink, wink) ask to participate in the Russian league.

iirc CSKA has not lost a championship in 30 years or sthg  but who cares since: we are only doing this to build our euro-subsidiary

[Rick Robeys Return]

@Rick Robeys Return

I would go for a more corrupt country than Italy tbh

You can buy a bball team for a bag of chips in Belarus and then if you have the right connections (wink, wink) ask to participate in the Russian league.

iirc CSKA has not lost a championship in 30 years or sthg  but who cares since: we are only doing this to build our euro-subsidiary

Not to hate on Belarus, but if we ask our stash players to go and live in Minsk we might lose whatever benefits and good will were trying to gain....now Rome OTOH.....

[Yoki_IsTheName]

I would say they should invest some in the Philippines, as that is a basketball crazy country.

But if I remember correctly, only 2 out of the 3 conferences they play, you are only allowed to get one or two players who are not of Filipino decent called Imports.

But man, that would be fun for us. Knowing that a team is a subsidiary of an NBA team will make it even more interesting. Most Filipino pro's would probably want to play for that team, all while we can stash one or two of our Celtics prospects at the same time.

[greece66]

@Rick Robeys Return

I would go for a more corrupt country than Italy tbh

You can buy a bball team for a bag of chips in Belarus and then if you have the right connections (wink, wink) ask to participate in the Russian league.

iirc CSKA has not lost a championship in 30 years or sthg  but who cares since: we are only doing this to build our euro-subsidiary

Not to hate on Belarus, but if we ask our stash players to go and live in Minsk we might lose whatever benefits and good will were trying to gain....now Rome OTOH.....

it's not that bad



I would b p happy with the Philippines too as @Yoki_IsTheName suggests

[clover]

I would say they should invest some in the Philippines, as that is a basketball crazy country.

But if I remember correctly, only 2 out of the 3 conferences they play, you are only allowed to get one or two players who are not of Filipino decent called Imports.

But man, that would be fun for us. Knowing that a team is a subsidiary of an NBA team will make it even more interesting. Most Filipino pro's would probably want to play for that team, all while we can stash one or two of our Celtics prospects at the same time.

Somehow the quality of the league isn't supposed to matter?

[clover]

With all the discussion of the relative value of Yabusele going to the CBA, i.e. whether by taking the better money it hurts his development compared to playing in the Euro Leagues...And with the growing number of draft and stash players generally, I'm wondering if there is any prohibition on NBA ownership groups having a  stake in an overseas franchise.

If not, you could imagine an NBA team essentially owning (part of) a team, say in the Spanish League, and stashing players there and  paying them more than the D-League currently allows, while also keeping them in a training and development regimen consistent with the NBA team's wishes, while also putting them up against high level competition.

Presumably there is some NBA by-law against this, but just looking to confirm....

I will say, it seems like the C's are yet to master the draft and stash strategy on any level. Who has been their most successful stash--Semih? Ouch!