[HitsterParticipant]

 We often say that when a team drafts a European player that they may stash them for a few years and if a team is looking to stash a player they will often draft a Euro guy rather than an NCAA guy.

Do teams have to sign their first rounders each year as most NCAA first round guys are always signed to contracts but Euro guys can be left abroad. Regardless of Euro guys having byouts is there any rule a team has to sign a guy who they drafted in first round the year they draft him if he is a US guy.

Lets say Philly had taken a Euro guy with no buy out and an NCAA guy at 24th and 26th this year. With Simmons comming in, Saric coming over, Embiid finally playing they wanted to sign neither guy at this moment. Both guys wanted to come to the NBA, the Euro guy could extend his contract with his current team but the NCAA guy had no contract with anyone.

The NCAA would be fairly annoyed he was drafted but wasn’t signed but could he have any recourse with the NBA to get himself on the rookie payscale?

In my mind it seems it’s easy to draft a Euro guy and say stay abroad for a year or two but we never really see an NCAA guy told go abroad for a year or two or go to D-League if both guys were drafted first round.

 

 

 

 

[BiggysmallsParticipant]

Maybe I haven’t paid near enough attention but I don’t remember many instances where a Euro gets picked early and they are told to sign a new contract overseas. Usually guys get drafted and run into a situation where the buyout is either too big or they aren’t ready to come over becasue they’ve got a year or two left on their Euro deal. 

If guys are ready to come over, they typically aren’t advised to sign a new contract after getting picked. I can’t think of anyone who has done that. 

College guys that get picked in the first round aren’t going to go to Europe after getting picked in the NBA with a guarenteed contract. I would assume that teams are smart enough to know that if they tried pulling that kind of move, agents are going to semi-blacklist them and try steering clients away from that organization. That just seems like stupid business. 

 

 

[BiggysmallsParticipant]

Maybe I haven’t paid near enough attention but I don’t remember many instances where a Euro gets picked early and they are told to sign a new contract overseas. Usually guys get drafted and run into a situation where the buyout is either too big or they aren’t ready to come over becasue they’ve got a year or two left on their Euro deal. 

If guys are ready to come over, they typically aren’t advised to sign a new contract after getting picked. I can’t think of anyone who has done that. 

College guys that get picked in the first round aren’t going to go to Europe after getting picked in the NBA with a guarenteed contract. I would assume that teams are smart enough to know that if they tried pulling that kind of move, agents are going to semi-blacklist them and try steering clients away from that organization. That just seems like stupid business. 

 

 

[HitsterParticipant]

 I guess also a lot depends when a Euro guy declares as if they are under contract and have a hefty buyout, it would seem stupid for them to declare as soon as they are eligible rather than wait a year or two to develop and run their contract down or reduce buyout.

We had used to see some top Euro players getting drafted when they were automatically draft eligible at 22 and maybe not really having a great desire or monetary need to come to NBA but that seems to happen less now.

Saric would have been draft eligible this year if he hadn’t declared in 2014 and the pointers are he’d have gone very high probably top 5 given what people thought his rights were worth tradewise.

Ricky Rubio was drafted 5th and waited a couple of years. Orlando are still waiting for 2005 11th pick Fran Vasquez to come over and at 33 years old this is very unlikely to ever happen. The Magic assumed he would sign for them and indications were as such when they drafted him but he changed his mind much to their annoyance.

 

 

 

[HitsterParticipant]

 I guess also a lot depends when a Euro guy declares as if they are under contract and have a hefty buyout, it would seem stupid for them to declare as soon as they are eligible rather than wait a year or two to develop and run their contract down or reduce buyout.

We had used to see some top Euro players getting drafted when they were automatically draft eligible at 22 and maybe not really having a great desire or monetary need to come to NBA but that seems to happen less now.

Saric would have been draft eligible this year if he hadn’t declared in 2014 and the pointers are he’d have gone very high probably top 5 given what people thought his rights were worth tradewise.

Ricky Rubio was drafted 5th and waited a couple of years. Orlando are still waiting for 2005 11th pick Fran Vasquez to come over and at 33 years old this is very unlikely to ever happen. The Magic assumed he would sign for them and indications were as such when they drafted him but he changed his mind much to their annoyance.

 

 

 

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