Mavs41

The NBDL is going to be a TREMENDOUS help twoards making young players more polished. Now the pressure isn't on GM's and other officials in the organization as much. Young players can now go down and develop their game in the NBDL. Prove they are worthy of being on a NBA roster and contribute. Also it gives fans a chance to checkout the young talent their I know team has drafted even closer. I know the Mavs NBDL team is going to in the city I live in. I defiantly plan on going to some games and checking out the up and coming players. This was an excellent decision by the NBA to put this in the new CBA. This will end the days of players getting contracts before they have proved how good they are.

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1) Start Devin Harris at point guard.

2) Start Jerry Stackhouse at shooting guard.

3) Make Jason Terry the sixth man.

4) Sign/trade for athletic center.

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6-23-05 -- The day the albatrose Shawn Bradley was taken from around the neck of the Dallas Mavericks.

SignGuyDino

I'll be following the Tulsa team, who was the TWO-TIME TWO-TIME NBDL Champion Asheville Altitude.

To answer the question about rookies: They are the property of that team, they can bounce back any number of times the teams need, they could play their entire two years in the NBDL if the NBA team desires. They still get paid the NBA pay.

Just wait until you start seeing players traded or have contracts bought out. Then the general public will really start following the NBDL.

EHL

Anything that can bring in a good minor league system is worth being happy about. If the NBDL can do that, great, I'm all for it.

bigbabyjesus

This is just an example. The Raptors had Ousmane Cisse on their training camp roster last year. If they sent him down to the NBDL without signing him to an actual contract would he be a free agent, or would he be 'property' of the Raptors?

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HKF

You wouldn't be able to send someone down, if you didn't offer them a contract. Even if it was only a year contract for the league minimum, Cisse would be the property of the Raptors. Now, if Cisse signed with an NBDL team on his own, he'd be free for anyone to claim.

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Chan

This minor league system is great, prospects finally get a chance to play against other teams... Looks like Darko won't be a Victory Cigar anymore..
I don't know about you guys, but before this NBDL system, I loved to watch the end of blowout games, cuz of all the porspects playing garbage mins.

Anyone know if the NBDL games will be televised?

LuckyAC

Well, I did love to see DARKOOOOO time, but sadly Darko won't be in the NBDL, since it's his third season. Still, there are others like him (ok, almost like him, there's only one real Darko)

Chan

Aww.... so much for more Darko.. woulda been sweet.. I mean, he is the most exciting player to watch in the league (I'm always on my feet when he's in the game, screaming DARKO! DO SOMETHING!)

So 3rd year players can't go in the NBDL?

HKF

Not unless they want to.

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2008-09 Favorite Rookies: Jerryd Bayless (POR), Roy Hibbert (IND), Greg Oden (POR), Chris Douglas-Roberts (NJN), Joe Alexander (MIL), Patrick Ewing, Jr. (NYK)

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JNice

Is that a fact? Or are you just assuming? I am going to guess that teams won't be allowed to "send down" guys after two years, even if they agree. Otherwise, teams could use sneaky ways to threaten guys to either accept being sent down or be cut, etc ... From what I remember reading, they were only allowed to do that first two years period.

Seems like not all of the details are out though. I know Orlando is reportedly having issues buying out the contract of Vasquez because nobody is sure right now what the exact buyout rules of the new CBA are.

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HKF

You could be right JNice, because contracts are only 2 years g