Combining ideas den/dal/utah/chi/bos

[BelgradeNugget]

Denver is at 199.5M for 13 players. After OP they are at 199M for 9 players... you dont have enough room under the apron to fill out the roster even with vet mins/UDFA.

you have to pick one of Ayo or Klay, not both

This is where good management comes in. NBA min contract for 2025 is $1.4M (for players with 0 years in nba). Go to Europe find some role players 5 x 1.4 = $7M. Under 2nd Apron. And for those who don't think finding good smart vet role players in Europe is posible, rewatch USA-Serbia at Olympics. Look at Guerschon Yabusele. And you don't need new Guerschon Yabusele who vastly outplayed his contract, just some smart vets.
Find 1 solid g-league player and you are OK. Teams use 9-10 rotations. Denver had something like 4-5 unplayable players. It wouldn't be hard to upgrade from Jordan, Cancar, Tyson, Nnaji, injured Holmes II, Pickett...

[Texas Chuck]

If its easy to find good contributors willing to play for the minimum in the NBA, why is Denver getting all of them? Why aren't other teams bringing over some of them?

Way too easy to just say we can get 5 good players from Europe willing to play for less just to be a Denver Nugget. Much harder to actually do that.

[Godaddycurse]

If its easy to find good contributors willing to play for the minimum in the NBA, why is Denver getting all of them? Why aren't other teams bringing over some of them?

Way too easy to just say we can get 5 good players from Europe willing to play for less just to be a Denver Nugget. Much harder to actually do that.

yea they are not coming to be end of bench players for nuggets lol

[BelgradeNugget]

If its easy to find good contributors willing to play for the minimum in the NBA, why is Denver getting all of them? Why aren't other teams bringing over some of them?

Way too easy to just say we can get 5 good players from Europe willing to play for less just to be a Denver Nugget. Much harder to actually do that.

Denver is not the one that brought them here because they didn't try. 76ers did and brough Yabuselle. Jokic's teammates who played for team Serbia could play a role of 9-12 role players for NBA teams. In europe you have probobly 20-30 players that are better than at least 45 players that are going to be drafted this year. Teams will take them for they potential, not because they know how to play. In g-league you have at least 10 players who could be good 11-15 bench guys.

Problem with teams drafting/signing young players is they look for colegue stars trying to turn them into 3nD players. Don't sign stars from europe go for 3nD players there to do the same role in the NBA.

Dort was great defender in colegue, went undrafted. He wasn't star enough I guess.

But then again you don't have to go to euroleague, you can go to 5-6 european domestic leagues and find better players than Jordan, Cancar, Tyson, Nnaji, injured Holmes II, Pickett. Why NBA teams don't do that. I don't know, you tell me.
Or there arn't better players than Jordan, Cancar, Tyson, Nnaji, injured Holmes II, Pickett in europe, i don't know

[Texas Chuck]

yeah see I think NBA teams have been scouting Europe for a long time now. But the better players can make decent money in Europe now so unless they just want the challenge of the best league in the world they are unlikely to take a pay cut. And if they want to play, they don't want come to sit on the bench in Denver, they would want to play.

I think its just optimistic. Look at some of the end of roster spot guys now, if Europe had better players willing to take min contracts and barely play, they would already be here. But why leave Europe for less money and playing time? What is their incentive?

[BelgradeNugget]

If its easy to find good contributors willing to play for the minimum in the NBA, why is Denver getting all of them? Why aren't other teams bringing over some of them?

Way too easy to just say we can get 5 good players from Europe willing to play for less just to be a Denver Nugget. Much harder to actually do that.

yea they are not coming to be end of bench players for nuggets lol

Avramovic and Milutinov could. Watch German national team on Olympics, France...majority of them are better than Nuggets 9-15 players last season.
Even if they are not, we could say they are as useless as Jordan, Cancar, Tyson, Nnaji, injured Holmes II, Pickett but for half the money.

[BelgradeNugget]

yeah see I think NBA teams have been scouting Europe for a long time now. But the better players can make decent money in Europe now so unless they just want the challenge of the best league in the world they are unlikely to take a pay cut. And if they want to play, they don't want come to sit on the bench in Denver, they would want to play.

I think its just optimistic. Look at some of the end of roster spot guys now, if Europe had better players willing to take min contracts and barely play, they would already be here. But why leave Europe for less money and playing time? What is their incentive?

Again you are talking about best european players. I'm talking about vet role players. For instance Milutinov is making something like $1.4M in europe, he is 31, not looking to make career or become starter in NBA. Why wouldn't he come to Denver for a year sit on bench and play if needed. And he is better than Jordan, Nnaji, Cancar or Holmes.

Avramovic is also vet he wouldn't come to prove himself, no problem with sitting on the bench for $1.4M and he is better than Pickett or Tyson. Maybe no one called them

EDIT: NBA teams were also not willing to give last roster spots to smart vet role players from europe but to young talented players with potential. But with this new CBA and apron rules maybe thinking outside of box will be needed in the future