D-League Rights of Waived Players

Post #1 » by **Parliament10** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 5:45 pm

Ben Bentil's D-League Rights, remain with the Maine Red Claws, the Boston Celtics' D-League team. NOT the Fort Wayne Mad Ants (run by the Pacers). As we do have a D-League. = Hence, We Did Not Forfeit his D-League Rights.

The Mad Ants & Red Claws, have some negotiating to do.

The Ryan Kelly Situation is different. In that, the Atlanta Hawks don't have a D-League team. So when the Celtics picked up Kelly, and then Waived him, we assumed his D-League Rights.

Cuban Pete wrote:It's like the Rule V draft in MLB.

ConstableGeneva · Post #2 » by **ConstableGeneva** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 5:48 pm

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rickrolled · Post #3 » by **rickrolled** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 5:59 pm

What about Hunter ? If he is claimed then waived, who gets his D-League rights ?

Post #4 » by **Parliament10** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:26 pm

rickrolled wrote:What about Hunter ? If he is claimed then waived, who gets his D-League rights ?

We Waived him first, and we have a D-League team. We do.

ConstableGeneva · Post #5 » by **ConstableGeneva** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 7:00 pm

So we also waived his D-League rights?

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Spoiler:

Okay, it would seem like we did...

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Novocaine · Post #6 » by **Novocaine** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:02 pm

Parliament10 wrote:Ben Bentil's D-League Rights, remain with the Maine Red Claws, the Boston Celtics' D-League team. NOT the Fort Wayne Mad Ants (run by the Pacers). As we do have a D-League. = Hence, We Did Not Forfeit his D-League Rights.

The Mad Ants & Red Claws, have some negotiating to do.

The Ryan Kelly Situation is different. In that, the Atlanta Hawks don't have a D-League team. So when the Celtics picked up Kelly, and then Waived him, we assumed his D-League Rights.

Cuban Pete wrote:It's like the Rule V draft in MLB.

No idea what is the Rule V draft in the MLB, but that's simply not how things work in the NBA/D-League.

There are 3 ways on which players with a connection to a NBA franchise can be in a D-League roster:

- Assignment players - those with contracts with NBA teams that are sent to the D-league team temporarily. E.g. Mickey/Hunter/Young/Rozier etc last season.

- Draft rights players - those players whose draft rights are hold by a NBA team. They are assigned to that NBA franchise affiliate and can't be called-up by other NBA teams. Examples are Nader for Boston this season or Josh Huestis with the Oklahoma Thunder. They're basically D-League draft'n'stashes.

- Affiliate players - once camp is over, NBA teams can allocate 4 of their training camp cuts to their D-League affiliates. Unlike the above mentioned "draft rights players", these aren't protected and can be called up by any other NBA franchise. This will be the case of Ryan Kelly with Boston/Maine and Ben Bentil with Indiana/Fort Wayne. Once Boston signed and waived Bentil to a NBA contract, they lost his draft rights. So this is the only category he'd fit. The team with the right to allocate him to their D-League franchise is the last one from where he was cut after training camp.

Post #7 » by **Parliament10** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:05 pm

CrowderKeg wrote:So we also waived his D-League rights?

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Spoiler:

Okay, it would seem like we did...

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I'm thinking, that we can only keep the Rights to 4 Affiliates?

Homerclease · Post #8 » by **Homerclease** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:42 pm

Bentil has light years to go on defense, maybe one day he makes an NBA roster but it won't be for some time. I think last years summer league hero Johnathan Holmes was a better prospect. No big loss, no big deal. Good luck Ben Bentil