Wasting a year there. Awful league.
I've said this in other threads, but it really sucks that a player has to choose between earning acceptable money in a third rate league, versus barely getting paid in the d-league. This is especially true for a Euro player for whom the d-league doesn't even offer the "comforts of home" advantage.
Unless Wyc and the ownership group are confident about the plan for growing the d-league (including salaries), I'd love to see them invest in a club in one of the better Euro leagues, where they'd have developmental control over the C's draft and stashes, and still be able to pay decent salaries...
i really like this idea. basically our own stash club, with coaches who teach Brad's way. that way any stashed guys can learn the system, and the coaching staff can give an in depth report to Danny and Brad and the guys.
is that legal, though? like in terms of nba rules and all, owning an overseas team in addition to owning an nba team, and sending all the talent to that overseas team?
I feel like this would violate the CBA somehow. The other owners would throw a hissy fit, as Wyc would effectively be paying our guys without it having any impact on the Boston Celtics salary cap.
yeah, that would probably get other owners mad. as someone else said, the spurs seems to be doing it with a tony parker owned club, if i understood it correctly? still though, the money has to come from someone from the spurs, right? tony cant be paying them all?? lol
Did some reading.
Parker's French team is called AVSEL. He started with a 20% stake, but in 2011 he became the majority owner.
The club had the second highest salary in the French Serie A league for the 2014-2015 season at 2.5 million euros, which is about $2.8M, though the euro has gone down a bit since then.
Despite his club being 2nd in his league in salary, Parker's not exactly breaking the bank paying his players. But it is still far higher than the D-league, which pays $20-26K per player + room and board, and that is up from previous years (and apparently the D-league might be tripling its salary in the near future, which is good).
You have to wonder if the league has any reservations about Parker paying Spurs players, especially if those salaries are 10x the amount of d-league salaries.