Draft Question

[Boo]

I have a Q..

When a team drafts a player, and sends him overseas to play develope, why does the player get the option to join the team or not. I mean the team drafted him and he declared for the draft, why does he get to choose. Shouldn't the team be able to tell him what to do?

[mcornelio]

the team gets the option not the player

[Boo]

then why do the players we draft go overseas and sign contracts like scola and cant get out of them?

[mcornelio]

because they want to play basketball and they want to get paid for it... so u sign a contract, they dont know when and if we are going to bring them over... and once they get that contract they cant get out unless they buy it out

[ChumpDumper]

The drafting team will keep the player's rights no matter what -- unless the player makes known his intent to join the team and is not under contract to any other team. In that case, if the tam doesn't take him on and the player sits out for a year, the team loses the rights on that player and he goes back into the draft or becomes a free agent. Of course this doesn't happen too often.

[snyderman]

the team loses the rights on that player and he goes back into the draft or becomes a free agent. Of course this doesn't happen too often.

I thought you were only eligable for the draft one year...or is that only if you go undrafted?

[Rick Von Braun]

then why do the players we draft go overseas and sign contracts like scola and cant get out of them?

Several players, like Scola in your example, may have already signed contracts before entering the draft. Entering the draft essentially means that NBA teams get the exclusive right to sign the player to a contract to play in the NBA (and that right is exclusive with respect to any other NBA team).

[Boo]

thanks for the info

[Solid D]

Pat Riley was drafted (Wide Receiver/Flanker) by the Dallas Cowboys and as a Guard by the San Diego Rockets of the NBA.

Who had the rights? Both did. The decision was up to Pat on what he did, but if Pat wanted to play in the NBA, the only team he could join was the Rockets because they had his rights. The same went for the Cowboys. Had Pat decided to play football in the NFL, it would have had to be with Dallas.