NBA Players Signing Abroad......

[THE HCP]

Hope these guys know what they are getting into. According to Wojo and Hollinger, China is not letting players opt out!

 

[THE HCP]

WojYahooNBA-

Kenyon Martin, Wilson Chandler and J.R. Smith -- the three Denver free agents -- can't re-sign in the NBA until CBA season ends in March.

 

[THE HCP]

.....China Basketball Association's forbidding "NBA-outs" and holding players until end of its season. Only NBA free agents can sign there.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

As the "Ridiculous Upside" guy tweeted: can we promote a D-League team to the NBA now that the Nuggets are playing in China?

Here's a list of all the NBA players who've signed contracts abroad.

 

[THE HCP]

Hollinger............ Wonder if K-Mart looked at a map of China before signing. Few places on the globe are further out in the boonies than Xinjiang.

 

[THE HCP]

.........The players on Xinjiang live on what is basically a compound. Not a safe area in the slightest.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I'm sure Stern & Co. are sweating now. Three of the top 6 players of a playoff-caliber team are willing to get locked into contracts in China for relative peanuts (KMart's ridiculous 16M notwithstanding), and the players are expecting the owners to pay them more than 50% of revenue?

Xinjiang's basically southern Mongolia.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

So far, 54 out of 480 players have signed with a foreign team. Some of those are complete fringe players. While I imagine another 25-50 players may sign foreign contracts, I really don't think it matters. The reason why is that this is about the soft cap and guaranteed contracts. At some point in time the owners can have a new NBA with completely different rules.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

So far, 54 out of 480 players have signed with a foreign team. Some of those are complete fringe players. While I imagine another 25-50 players may sign foreign contracts, I really don't think it matters. The reason why is that this is about the soft cap and guaranteed contracts. At some point in time the owners can have a new NBA with completely different rules.

STERN: "Now that we have an out-placement program for 50 NBA players, we can contract the league by 3 teams without anyone in the union complaining, right? Or, we can bring you all back, but pay you CBA-level salaries... since you'll accept that, right? Can you people not see that you're only hurting your negotiating positions by doing stupid shit like this?"

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I'm sure Stern & Co. are sweating now. Three of the top 6 players of a playoff-caliber team are willing to get locked into contracts in China for relative peanuts (KMart's ridiculous 16M notwithstanding), and the players are expecting the owners to pay them more than 50% of revenue?

Kenyon Martin has zero influence. He's also a free agent. He's also nearing the end of his career. He's going to China because it's a well-paying job, not to send a message to the owners.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

.........The players on Xinjiang live on what is basically a compound. Not a safe area in the slightest.

I bet it's a lot safer than the US city I live in. Or than the neighborhoods Kenyon Martin grew up in. And there's probably less toxic waste, too.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Talking of K-Mart: he almost makes me hopeful for Oden. Didn't he also have microfracture on both knees? He's looking pretty spry these days:
[video]http://www.ballislife.com/video/impactday6[/video]

 

[jlprk]

He's going to China because it's a well-paying job, not to send a message to the owners.

Yes, that's what the pro-owner types don't get. No one's sending a message and no one's receiving a message. This is just working men making big money where it's offered to them. No need to invent conspiracy theories as to why they work overseas after the owners shut down the league.

 

[PapaG]

Yes, that's what the pro-owner types don't get. No one's sending a message and no one's receiving a message. This is just working men making big money where it's offered to them. No need to invent conspiracy theories as to why they work overseas after the owners shut down the league.

It actually weakens the players' position, IMO. A good friend of mine played ball all over the world. The difference between playing in the NBA and playing in China is a mile wide and a mile deep. These players are about to find out what it's like to rush to a bank to cash your check, or to not be paid at all, with no union or ethical owners to protect them. If I'm Kenyon Martin, I'm paying somebody to film a documentary of my season in China. The railroad trips, the bus trips, all of it.

 

[jlprk]

So what? Big bucks are big bucks. Are you saying the players should apply to McDonalds or 7-11 instead of playing overseas?

If they do, they'll be rushing to the bank with their paychecks, with no union to protect them. Why is it so bad to take the big bucks overseas instead of working for minimum wage here?

I keep reading in articles and posts how awful it is to make many hundreds of thousands of dollars overseas. Money is money.

 

[PapaG]

So what? Big bucks are big bucks. Are you saying the players should apply to McDonalds or 7-11 instead of playing overseas?

Obviously I didn't say that at all. I'm just saying that getting money in China or Turkey for playing ball isn't like playing in the NBA.