Once you are in your third year you can't be sent down. Part of the players association agreement. First and second years only and chuck is technically in his fourth.
may not be that long, but it is quite some time...actually u may think its barely any time...but thats ur opinion...terms like these are very much relative/comparative... a legit nba prospect would've been snagged up by a nba team in no time... I don't even think its worth discussing or arguing about...I mean ok...he played in the dleague for 1 or 2 months.....fact right there...long? short? average? whatever ppl decide.............
plus what can chuck gain in the dleague anyways??? joey dorsey was barely sent to the dleague as hes as experience-needing as they come in the nba... but lol our favourite rookie James White has spent quite a while in the dleague...maybe we just didn't sign him early to save some cash...and for luther head to get out of Houston...lol we even gave Luther a free plane ride and escorted him back to Chicago to release him... Sign Morris Almond!!!
From the ESPN interview with Daryl Morey: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=keri_jonah&page=Morey-090512 [rquoter] Keri: You talked at length to Michael Lewis about Shane Battier, a player you acquired because his contributions exceeded the obvious stats. Who else on the roster fits that mold, and how are their contributions best measured? Morey: Any time a player's value is in large part tied up in the defensive side of the ball, he's going to be underrated. Chuck Hayes is an extreme example. You couldn't understand why he's in the league if you just looked at the standard box score stats. If you just looked at points, rebounds and assists, you'd think we all need our heads examined. Keri: What makes Hayes so good defensively? Is it defending multiple positions? Defensive rebounding? Something else? Morey: Not to give a smart-ass answer, but yes. He does all of those things well. He can … well he can come close to guarding 1 through 5. To guard the 5, you need particular strength, and he has that. It would be a little tougher for him to guard a 1. But against 2-3-4-5, he's one of the best. He has a unique combination of lateral quickness, strength and speed all wrapped up in a great defensive mind. Because he's so limited in other ways, much more so than Shane, he wouldn't be an NBA player if those things weren't true. [/rquoter]
