Zodiac
Years ago

DeAndre Daniels spurns Raptors to sign in Italy

After spending his first pro season in Australia and his second in the D-League, Daniels signed with Italian team Pallacanestro Mantovana.

He could have signed with Toronto, which extended the required tender - a one-year contract, surely unguaranteed at the minimum, a team must offer to retain exclusive negotiating rights on a second-rounder. That would've meant going to training camp to compete with Fred VanVleet, Jarrod Uthoff, E.J. Singler Yanick Moreira and Drew Crawford for the Raptors final regular-season roster spot.

Daniels making the team obviously would’ve been his best-case scenario. But even getting waived would’ve allowed him to become an NBA free agent before heading overseas.

As is, even if he plays his way up to NBA-caliber in Europe, he can sign in the NBA only with the Raptors (unless they trade him).

http://nba.nbcsports.com/2016/09/13/2014-second-rounder-deandre-daniels-signs-with-italian-team-rather-than-raptors/

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Benno
Years ago

Overrated player just like shabazz napier

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DaHuzyBru
Years ago

It's not even the top division in Italy. He is not going to have a very notable pro career I don't think

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fatguy
Years ago

Napier wasnt tobad, in Miami he showed glimpses of good basketball but was squashed by the pg rotation of cole, chalmers and then later dragic

On the right team he would be a very good fit

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Anonymous
Years ago

Maybe any pro-career is more notable than yours?

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Anonymous
Years ago

Saying he spurned the raptors is overplaying it. He's barely training camp fodder

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Zodiac
Years ago

No one is saying he would've made their team. But yes he did spurn them in that they offered him a contract and he chose not to sign it.

It's a feature of the recent CBA where unsigned 2nd round picks need to be tendered a contract, non-guaranteed and all that, and they can chose to sign it, usually against the team's wishes, and risk being cut then becoming a free-agent and possibly signing with another team or they do the team a favour, refuse to sign it and go and play somewhere else overseas with that NBA team holding their rights and therefore the player can only ever sign with that team unless they trade his rights.

I think K.J. McDaniels did something where he bet on himself accepted Philly's 2nd round contract, against their wishes, made the team and played well enough to get traded to Houston who he re-signed with last year to a 3 year $10 million contract.

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Dazz
Years ago

Decent enough player, will probably do ok in some leagues, but didn't look like NBA material.

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