Jazz Signed J.J. O'Brien

[cctrackstar]

happens every year. Kinda bugs me too. What I want to know is: seeing as the stampede is a team owned, er, team, can other teams sign them to ten day contracts? or do the Jazz have full rights for the full contracts? I do like the idea of teams having their own development league, but it might be limiting to the players themselves.

 

[Stifle Tower]

happens every year. Kinda bugs me too. What I want to know is: seeing as the stampede is a team owned, er, team, can other teams sign them to ten day contracts? or do the Jazz have full rights for the full contracts? I do like the idea of teams having their own development league, but it might be limiting to the players themselves.

If a player isn't on an NBA's team 15-man roster, the contract is owned by the DLeague. The DLeague team still pays the salary, but that player is free to sign a contract with any NBA team - even the four "affiliated" players a team may have. The only protection the NBA team gets is that these 4 players aren't exposed to the DLeague draft.

That's the great thing about the DLeague. It would be grossly unfair to a player if he had to play for $20K just because he was stuck behind a few others and couldn't crack that team's NBA roster. Great example is guys like Cotton, Millsap and Johnson. Utah was able to fill out their roster by grabbing players from several DLeague teams - not just the Stampede.

DLeague is headed in the right direction, it just needs to be funded so players can earn more money and more of them stay in the U.S. The league can then expand to 30 teams: one for each NBA franchise. There is just too much disparity between the rookie minimum in the NBA (just over $500K) and the DLeague max (a little over $20K).

 

[Lost_Jazz_Fan]

Word on the street is they actually meant to sign JJ Barea but someone messed up the paperwork so they got summer league fodder instead.

 

[Stifle Tower]

Word on the street is they actually meant to sign JJ Barea but someone messed up the paperwork so they got summer league fodder instead.

Story I heard was Justin Zanik and Dennis Lindsey were at the breakfast buffet, naturally discussing personnel and contracts before officially starting their work day. Zanik got up and asked Lindsey what he wanted. Lindsey, who had just stuffed a blueberry mini-muffin in his mouth, mumbled "potatoes o'brien," thinking Zanik was going back for seconds, not to his office.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

Story I heard was Justin Zanik and Dennis Lindsey were at the breakfast buffet, naturally discussing personnel and contracts before officially starting their work day. Zanik got up and asked Lindsey what he wanted. Lindsey, who had just stuffed a blueberry mini-muffin in his mouth, mumbled "potatoes o'brien," thinking Zanik was going back for seconds, not to his office.

This is the same story I heard, though Lindsey also said something about "Mickey Mouse pancakes," so I'm sort of interested to see how that part turns out.

 

[thebrazilianzz]

Story I heard was Justin Zanik and Dennis Lindsey were at the breakfast buffet, naturally discussing personnel and contracts before officially starting their work day. Zanik got up and asked Lindsey what he wanted. Lindsey, who had just stuffed a blueberry mini-muffin in his mouth, mumbled "potatoes o'brien," thinking Zanik was going back for seconds, not to his office.

I heard this story over at Fast Shop, brazilian version of Best Buy, and no, I was not in the parking lot! LOL