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for those not famaliar with a 2 way contract
Posted on: October 20, 2018 at 14:39:05 CT
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Here are the specific details for the new two-way contract:
They will act as a 16th and 17th roster spot for NBA teams beginning next season (2017-18).
The player can spend up to 45 days with the NBA team that signs him, although no time is guaranteed.
The rest of the player’s contract must be spent in the G-League, either for the team’s affiliate or another’s if the team he signs with doesn’t have a G-League affiliate yet. For the 2017-18 season, the G-League will represent 26 of the NBA’s 30 teams.
The player’s pay comes on a tiered salary system, which can last one or two seasons. While in the G-League, the player will make $75,000. It’s a significant increase from the current pay structure for G-Leaguers, who cannot make more than $26,000 with a one-way G-League deal.
When in the NBA, a player with a two-way contract will accrue a day of service and make money consistent with an NBA rookie minimum, which is about $816,000 next season. If a player spends 45 days in the NBA, he could make around $204,000.
In total, a two-way player who spends the maximum amount of time in the NBA would make $279,000.
That’s a lot more money than the G-League has ever presented its players.
But it’s not the perfect solution it may seem
For one, it’s still less than many players could make overseas.
But the other reason agents are wary of two-way contracts is that it restricts the player’s freedom of movement. Players who once could be called up by 30 different NBA teams now are linked exclusively with just one — and on a limited basis, at that.
Sure, there are technically 60 more players in the NBA. But it will only be at a specific team’s discretion, with no lateral movement until the contract is up. Before, the G-League’s most convincing selling point was how easily any player could be called up for a 10-day tryout. That goes away for players who sign two-way contracts.
“There’s good and there’s bad,” one agent who recently had a client sign a two-way contract told me. “On one hand, when teams are looking to make call-ups, you’re locked into the one team. But on the other, if the team really likes you, you have to do anything you can to get your foot in the door.”
2017 Las Vegas Summer League Los Angeles Lakers v Dallas Mavericks
Alex Caruso (right) signed a two-way contract with the Lakers. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images
It’s no surprise that the G-League loves the new structure
For those in the G-League, the two-way contract is an excellent new tool that should result in a talent influx, at least in some manner.
“It cements in place the opportunity to have guys in a development situation where they really are connected to the NBA organization and affiliate organization,” Kent Lacob, general manager of the Santa Cruz Warriors, told me. “It really provides more synergy and opportunity for guys to be integrated into both. I think that aids in the development of not just improving as a player, but specifically catered to the system, and the culture, and the team that they’re with.”
Likewise, Rio Grande Valley Vipers head coach Matt Brase told me he sees the two-way contract as an “awesome” new addition.
“The biggest thing is the league gets better,” Brase said. “I just think it’s good that we’re getting people toward the baseball minor league system where you’re bringing guys up the way you want to bring them up. I think that’s important, too, for players to have some stability. If you’re in a certain situation and learning that system, and you get a chance at the NBA level, you're comfortable.”
They will act as a 16th and 17th roster spot for NBA teams beginning next season (2017-18).
The player can spend up to 45 days with the NBA team that signs him, although no time is guaranteed.
The rest of the player’s contract must be spent in the G-League, either for the team’s affiliate or another’s if the team he signs with doesn’t have a G-League affiliate yet. For the 2017-18 season, the G-League will represent 26 of the NBA’s 30 teams.
The player’s pay comes on a tiered salary system, which can last one or two seasons. While in the G-League, the player will make $75,000. It’s a significant increase from the current pay structure for G-Leaguers, who cannot make more than $26,000 with a one-way G-League deal.
When in the NBA, a player with a two-way contract will accrue a day of service and make money consistent with an NBA rookie minimum, which is about $816,000 next season. If a player spends 45 days in the NBA, he could make around $204,000.
In total, a two-way player who spends the maximum amount of time in the NBA would make $279,000.
That’s a lot more money than the G-League has ever presented its players.
But it’s not the perfect solution it may seem
For one, it’s still less than many players could make overseas.
But the other reason agents are wary of two-way contracts is that it restricts the player’s freedom of movement. Players who once could be called up by 30 different NBA teams now are linked exclusively with just one — and on a limited basis, at that.
Sure, there are technically 60 more players in the NBA. But it will only be at a specific team’s discretion, with no lateral movement until the contract is up. Before, the G-League’s most convincing selling point was how easily any player could be called up for a 10-day tryout. That goes away for players who sign two-way contracts.
“There’s good and there’s bad,” one agent who recently had a client sign a two-way contract told me. “On one hand, when teams are looking to make call-ups, you’re locked into the one team. But on the other, if the team really likes you, you have to do anything you can to get your foot in the door.”
2017 Las Vegas Summer League Los Angeles Lakers v Dallas Mavericks
Alex Caruso (right) signed a two-way contract with the Lakers. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images
It’s no surprise that the G-League loves the new structure
For those in the G-League, the two-way contract is an excellent new tool that should result in a talent influx, at least in some manner.
“It cements in place the opportunity to have guys in a development situation where they really are connected to the NBA organization and affiliate organization,” Kent Lacob, general manager of the Santa Cruz Warriors, told me. “It really provides more synergy and opportunity for guys to be integrated into both. I think that aids in the development of not just improving as a player, but specifically catered to the system, and the culture, and the team that they’re with.”
Likewise, Rio Grande Valley Vipers head coach Matt Brase told me he sees the two-way contract as an “awesome” new addition.
“The biggest thing is the league gets better,” Brase said. “I just think it’s good that we’re getting people toward the baseball minor league system where you’re bringing guys up the way you want to bring them up. I think that’s important, too, for players to have some stability. If you’re in a certain situation and learning that system, and you get a chance at the NBA level, you're comfortable.”
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