The player is simply listed as inactive while on assignment and continues to earn his full NBA salary.ĭue to the introduction of two-way contracts and the way the last two seasons have played out at the NBA level, the impact of assignment players has decreased relative to some of the other player categories. That’s happened in recent years with a Stanley Johnson looking to get more playing time in or Jared Sullinger on a post-injury conditioning stint.Īssigning a player to the G League does not open up an NBA roster spot or provide any cap relief. Players with more than three years of experience can be assigned with player and union approval. NBA teams can assign any player to the G League who is still in his first three seasons in the league, even if they aren’t on a two-way contract. What follows is a look at how the Raptors 905 roster is constructed, with an explanation of the different contracts and player types involved. Training camp opened Monday and runs until cut-down day on Nov. 11 at Paramount Fine Foods Centre in Mississauga, Ont. Players have to play to improve, and a G League affiliate right down the road can be a wonderful tool. The ability for young players to get extended playing time to work through mistakes and points of emphasis is an important ingredient of the development system. The Raptors are hoping this season represents a return to normalcy. Even the team’s two-way players, Jalen Harris and Yuta Watanabe, only played a combined seven games. In 2020-21, injuries and the nature of a pandemic season lowered that number to just nine. Even before that, though, the NBA side had dealt with so many injuries that the 905 received just 16 games from NBA assignment players, a comically low number compared to the Raptors’ record-setting approach to assignments in earlier years. In 2019-20, the season was cut short due to the pandemic. The last two years, however, have been a challenge. The 905 have been an educator, an incubator and an accelerator. For the first four years of their existence, Raptors 905 were paramount to the player development success of their NBA parent club, Toronto Raptors.įred VanVleet, Pascal Siakam, Chris Boucher and more came through Mississauga to hone and sharpen their games in anticipation of an eventual NBA role, if things went well.
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