Question about Two-Way Players

[Rastapopoulos]

Obviously I could Google this, but you know my love of starting threads.

What are the rules for 2-way players - you're allowed 2, right? And our two are Caleb Love and...?

This means that we can't just sign somebody from the G-League (Dillon Jones or, even better, Clingan's old teammate Tristen Newton) without cutting one of our 2-way players? Do we have a roster spot available? Not that any of them deserve it, but you can convert a current 2-way player to a regular contract and free up a 2-way slot that way, right?

 

[THE HCP]

MODS! Please merge this with the Melo thread!

 

[blazerkor]

Obviously I could Google this, but you know my love of starting threads.

What are the rules for 2-way players - you're allowed 2, right? And our two are Caleb Love and...?

This means that we can't just sign somebody from the G-League (Dillon Jones or, even better, Clingan's old teammate Tristen Newton) without cutting one of our 2-way players? Do we have a roster spot available? Not that any of them deserve it, but you can convert a current 2-way player to a regular contract and free up a 2-way slot that way, right?

It's three and ours are Love, Cooke and Cissoko.

 

[wizenheimer]

NBA raised the 2-way player limit from two to three

Blazers have 3 in Cissoko, Love, and Cooke

only players with four years or less of NBA experience are eligible to 2-way contracts

Blazers were skating on this ice by entering the pre-season with 2 healthy PG's in Jrue & Scoot. Ice got thinner when they entered the season with one healthy PG while thinking Wesley would be a close enough facsimile to function. Then he got hurt

Blazers are in a bind by loading up the back end of their roster with SG's/SF's: Rupert, Love, Cissoko, Cooke....even Wesley. Teams still need PG's unless they have a unicorn at another position. Portland doesn't.

Compounding the problem is that the Blazers are only 1.5M below the tax line, so even if they waive somebody like Rupert, signing a PG would likely put them over the line unless they wait till about the 30 game mark so they can stay under the line with a pro-rated vet minimum contract

current UFA NBA "PG's" (what do I know...may not really be current):

Spenser Dinwiddie
Markelle Fultz
Cameron Payne
Patty Mills
Talen Horton-Tucker
Corey Joseph
Elfrid Payton
Delon Wright
Ben Simmons

 

[tlongII]

NBA raised the 2-way player limit from two to three

Blazers have 3 in Cissoko, Love, and Cooke

only players with four years or less of NBA experience are eligible to 2-way contracts

Blazers were skating on this ice by entering the pre-season with 2 healthy PG's in Jrue & Scoot. Ice got thinner when they entered the season with one healthy PG while thinking Wesley would be a close enough facsimile to function. Then he got hurt

Blazers are in a bind by loading up the back end of their roster with SG's/SF's: Rupert, Love, Cissoko, Cooke....even Wesley. Teams still need PG's unless they have a unicorn at another position. Portland doesn't.

Compounding the problem is that the Blazers are only 1.5M below the tax line, so even if they waive somebody like Rupert, signing a PG would likely put them over the line unless they wait till about the 30 game mark so they can stay under the line with a pro-rated vet minimum contract

current UFA NBA "PG's" (what do I know...may not really be current):

Spenser Dinwiddie
Markelle Fultz
Cameron Payne
Patty Mills
Talen Horton-Tucker
Corey Joseph
Elfrid Payton
Delon Wright
Ben Simmons

So NBA players are doing 3-ways now?

 

[PCmor7]

So NBA players are doing 3-ways now?

Now? Probably been going on since the league began. Heck, Wilt might have had more ways than that.

 

[BBert]

So NBA players are doing 3-ways now?

Always were