mojo13 wrote:Great. Gets to play for Coach Gordie Herbert and fill the long line of departed Canadians - Phil Scrubb, Aaron Doornekamp and more I think. Heslip hasnt had much luck professionally so hopefully this gives him a stable environment and paycheck he needs.
Not sure if anyone followed the happenings at Trabzonspor, for which he averaged 16.0 points and 2.3 assists per game in the Turkish League least season. I am not sure if I have the full story but midseason they stopped paying him and the other foreign imports so the import players went on "strike" at a point where the team could get relegated (a big deal). It seems Brady took the brunt of the blame for encouraging the others to "strike" with the fans turning mostly on him and running him out of town. Yet another example how Euro leagues can be quite shady - Khem Birch has referenced a number of times that the best thing about being in the NBA is actually getting paid what you are owed and on time. For how high profile Brady is in our Canadian minds, it seems he has bounced around allot and never gotten much of a payday. Just considering the cultural stereotypes I can't help to think the German BSL is a more stable financial environment - with a more defined rule of law backing up player contract. The paydays in the Turkish League could be much higher, but the risk of not getting paid seems much higher as well. Maybe the rest of you know better, but the contracts in the Turkish League often don't seem worth the paper they are written on.
90% of these "players don't get paid in Europe" stories are completely made up. It's common sense actually, the same exact players every single year claim they never got paidd in Europe, yet every single year return to Europe and play the whole season there again........then claim again they never got paid.....then go back again and spent the whole season there....then say they didn't get paid again....
It's mostly a bunch of total BS. Some teams are bankrupting and guys might not get paid, so they have to go to FIBA court, who then legally forces the clubs to pay them, plus the court and lawyer fees, plus interest as well. But that's 1-2 teams in a national league, if even that. It certainly isn't teams in EuroLeague or EuroCup, because the teams are not allowed to even be in those leagues if they have any debts to players, coaches, or agents. They can't even register to the league - yet every year we hear about some EuroLeague or EuroCup team "never paid their players" - it's definitely made up in those cases, because the league will ban any such team immediately - like when they banned Partizan and Cibona for that.
A couple years ago, some reporter investigated this in Greece, since every team had players and agents claiming they never got paid - they even had a story that not a single Olympiacos player got paid once in the whole season. Upon investigation, it came out that a large number of American players almost always specifically request that their contracts be per month, not per season, and that their contracts allow for the team to pay once a month, or once in 2 months, or once in 3 months (yes, the contract says the team could choose to pay once in 3 months), and also for the contract amount to be paid ON TIME IN FULL, over a 10 month period in the calendar year (not the time the player is in the team).
In doing this, their is some kind of a scam, then where they claim they "didn't get paid in months", as soon as some team might wait 2-3 months to pay a player, then all of a sudden they "never got paid", or "didn't get paid in months", or "never got paid on time". The idea of it is, then they can automatically demand to be let out of their contract and released at any such moment their pay went over 30 days time period.
In fact, it turned out in Greek League, not a single contract was over the 3 month time period, and in cases of all teams in the league (even the smallest budgeted ones), every single American player was paid in full and on time, always, despite constant claims they never got paid.
So most of this is complete BS. Yeah, some teams crash financially and guys don't get paid, but that's rare, and even then, within a year FIBA demands it. The European court orders it, and will seize assets if they don't pay.
And again, it's so obvious, why do these players keep playing in Europe every year if they don't get paid? Why do they play for free? Why do they not play in G-League (because of not enough money), and then choose instead to play for free in Europe?
The answer of course is obviously that they don't. It's a bunch of complete BS.
