Basically. You can think of it as whether or not a player has an NBA contract or not. NBA minimum is around 400K for a rook, NBDL is around 24K if you're Mike Harris. If you want to keep the rights to the player and keep them playing in the D-League you have to sign them to an NBA contract. Anyone with a signed NBA contract count against your maximum of 15 player contracts at one time (at least for now, I hope it changes in the new CBA). So you can see why it's almost impossible for a team to have a 3 or 4 player rookie class, particularly when they're all 1st rounders and can't be cut easily like 2nd rounders.
Hahaha. Yeah, that'll work. :grin: Pretty much, yeah. It's not that first rounders are HARDER to cut. It's just that you're guaranteeing them more money, so you'd be kissing that much more in dollars (and cap space) goodbye when you cut them.
Give me Gortat i'd rather take him over a bloated contract. I'd move #14 for Gortat and #23 for Asik, of course only if we failed to draft a big #14. Not both one or the other of course we have Thabeet, Miller, Yao maybe Hayes we will have a log jam.
