Jonno
Years ago
D-league players wages
does anyone know what guys playing in the nba d-league would be earning, would it equate to a cheap import in the nbl? (i remember seeing rumours its in the 30k-50k ball park)
say would you be able to get one for what a guy like Cortez Groves, who is supposably a cheap import this year, is earning?
Not that i am fully in the we need to sack groves bandwagon, but if they earn a similar amount and the money is there to make the move it would be something worth considering IMO.
There are many names i recognise including Rod Benson, more for his blogs though and a number of ex nbl imports are putting up atleast reasonable numbers including guys like Carlos Powell, Justin Bowen, Mark Tyndale, Jared Newson, Oriene Green, David Bailey,Michael Joiner,
Would any of these guys be worth considering? in the future atleast,especially if they are cheap, they are mostly atleast semi proven at nbl level with Powell being a star, the others were all fairly solid from my opinion i think joiner is the one with the worst nbl career on that list.
The 3 that standout to me are Powell, Bowen and Greene, Powell was a mvp candidate, Bowen was quite good from the couple of games i saw of him and Greene was atleast solid and has nba experience and is averaging 3.5 steals in the d-league! (along with 16p, 4r, 3a)
Rod Benson would also be an interesting one given the publicity he could generate, and he is 6-10 so would be handy in the C spot to cover Burston if they go down that path which many have suggested on this forum.
Anyways just throwing it out there for discussion, im not personally on the sack groves bandwagon as i have seen him do some good things albeit inconsistantly and have always been a fan of his over the years, but i also would not be too shocked/upset if they did try and make a change to get the xfactor import to get us over the top.
What do people think?
