Can Lamelo sign with an NBA team now? Raptors, Nets and blazers have inquired about Lamelo.

[Anerdyblackguy]

Report: LaMelo Ball Drawing Early Interest from Nets, Raptors, Pelicans, Blazers
MEGAN ARMSTRONGOCTOBER 4, 2019

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LaMelo Ball's stock continues to rise.

The Brooklyn Nets, Toronto Raptors, New Orleans Pelicans and Portland Trail Blazers have inquired about Ball to Ohio's Spire Academy, where he played for the 2018-19 season, according to Forbes' Adam Zagoria.

"LaMelo is a 6'7"-plus playmaker who sees the floor at an elite level," Spire Academy director Justin Brantley told Zagoria. "He makes everyone around him better and has shown that his game tends to get better as the level of competition rises around him. He plays above the rim, has more than serviceable range and although his form is 'unorthodox,' he shoots the ball well from three. He has become a more motivated defender and has shown the work ethic, dedication and desire to get better and be an elite guard in the NBA."

In late September, ESPN's Jonathan Givony wrote that Ball had begun drawing hype as the potential No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NBA draft.

"The whole NBA is talking about LaMelo Ball right now," ESPN's Brian Windhorst added on SportsCenter. "He put on a display in Tasmania over the weekend. ... And here's the thing: He is playing on a professional ... team with men. Several of his teammates, like Josh Boone and Aaron Brooks, are former NBA players.

"He is working with elite-level strength coaches, elite-level trainers. One of the things that happened with Lonzo when he came to the NBA was he was very slight. He had to build up. Well, LaMelo is on a completely different development curve. His shot is so much—is so smooth and quick. ... NBA executives are now rearranging their schedules to get to Australia as fast as they can to see him because they're afraid he might shut it down."

Lonzo Ball, his oldest brother, was picked second overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2017.











Does anybody know if this is possible?

 

[G-Zeus]

Report: LaMelo Ball Drawing Early Interest from Nets, Raptors, Pelicans, Blazers
MEGAN ARMSTRONGOCTOBER 4, 2019

Kelly Defina/Getty Images
LaMelo Ball's stock continues to rise.

The Brooklyn Nets, Toronto Raptors, New Orleans Pelicans and Portland Trail Blazers have inquired about Ball to Ohio's Spire Academy, where he played for the 2018-19 season, according to Forbes' Adam Zagoria.

"LaMelo is a 6'7"-plus playmaker who sees the floor at an elite level," Spire Academy director Justin Brantley told Zagoria. "He makes everyone around him better and has shown that his game tends to get better as the level of competition rises around him. He plays above the rim, has more than serviceable range and although his form is 'unorthodox,' he shoots the ball well from three. He has become a more motivated defender and has shown the work ethic, dedication and desire to get better and be an elite guard in the NBA."

In late September, ESPN's Jonathan Givony wrote that Ball had begun drawing hype as the potential No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NBA draft.

"The whole NBA is talking about LaMelo Ball right now," ESPN's Brian Windhorst added on SportsCenter. "He put on a display in Tasmania over the weekend. ... And here's the thing: He is playing on a professional ... team with men. Several of his teammates, like Josh Boone and Aaron Brooks, are former NBA players.

"He is working with elite-level strength coaches, elite-level trainers. One of the things that happened with Lonzo when he came to the NBA was he was very slight. He had to build up. Well, LaMelo is on a completely different development curve. His shot is so much—is so smooth and quick. ... NBA executives are now rearranging their schedules to get to Australia as fast as they can to see him because they're afraid he might shut it down."

Lonzo Ball, his oldest brother, was picked second overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2017.











Does anybody know if this is possible?

He is a professional....

 

[Doobie Doo]

He is a professional....

Don't they have to be a year removed from highschool

 

[CantStop]

pretty sure you have to go through the draft

if it was possible, damn near all these dudes would do it

sign one year overseas and just sign a max contract with the Lakers > getting locked up by the Hornets for the next 7 years

 

[VegasCAC]

I believe that in order to enter the NBA you had to have made yourself available for the draft at some point.

 

[Da_Eggman]

No

 

[The God Poster]

Report: LaMelo Ball Drawing Early Interest from Nets, Raptors, Pelicans, Blazers
MEGAN ARMSTRONGOCTOBER 4, 2019

Kelly Defina/Getty Images
LaMelo Ball's stock continues to rise.

The Brooklyn Nets, Toronto Raptors, New Orleans Pelicans and Portland Trail Blazers have inquired about Ball to Ohio's Spire Academy, where he played for the 2018-19 season, according to Forbes' Adam Zagoria.

"LaMelo is a 6'7"-plus playmaker who sees the floor at an elite level," Spire Academy director Justin Brantley told Zagoria. "He makes everyone around him better and has shown that his game tends to get better as the level of competition rises around him. He plays above the rim, has more than serviceable range and although his form is 'unorthodox,' he shoots the ball well from three. He has become a more motivated defender and has shown the work ethic, dedication and desire to get better and be an elite guard in the NBA."

In late September, ESPN's Jonathan Givony wrote that Ball had begun drawing hype as the potential No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NBA draft.

"The whole NBA is talking about LaMelo Ball right now," ESPN's Brian Windhorst added on SportsCenter. "He put on a display in Tasmania over the weekend. ... And here's the thing: He is playing on a professional ... team with men. Several of his teammates, like Josh Boone and Aaron Brooks, are former NBA players.

"He is working with elite-level strength coaches, elite-level trainers. One of the things that happened with Lonzo when he came to the NBA was he was very slight. He had to build up. Well, LaMelo is on a completely different development curve. His shot is so much—is so smooth and quick. ... NBA executives are now rearranging their schedules to get to Australia as fast as they can to see him because they're afraid he might shut it down."

Lonzo Ball, his oldest brother, was picked second overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2017.











Does anybody know if this is possible?

No. The articles doesn't even allude to that.
The bolded lets you know.

 

[Warren Moon]

I believe that in order to NBA you had to have made yourself available for the draft at some point.

Yeah this is the only workaround. That’s why when Europe players do come over as “free agents” their rights are traded or have renounced beforehand.


The three-year rule
There's another wrinkle to drafting international prospects. It actually applies to all draft picks, but in a practical sense only comes up with respect to internationals. It's the three-year rule, which allows that if a first-round pick does not sign a rookie deal with the NBA team that owns his draft rights within three years of being drafted, the rookie scale no longer applies to him. In other words, a 2014 first-round pick could spend the next three seasons playing abroad and in the 2017 offseason sign a deal with his NBA team without regard for the rookie scale. Splitter and Nikola Pekovic have taken advantage of that clause in recent years to sign deals that didn't follow the rookie scale. And the Timberwolves famously convinced Ricky Rubio to come over to the NBA after two years post-draft in Spain when it appeared he'd wait three.

The one-year rule
There's another wrinkle here. We'll call it the one-year rule. If a player is drafted but does not play basketball for or sign a contract with any internationally recognized professional team for one year, that player is tossed back into the draft pool the following year, unless that player has reached an age at which he automatically becomes a free agent. This is basically a shadow clause never used as more than a vague threat.

 

[Cladyclad]

I thought he was trash?

coli experts lied to me


I got to go dumpster diving and find these experts posts

 

[FaTaL]

he will enter the next draft

 

[SpacelySprockets]

pretty sure you have to go through the draft

if it was possible, damn near all these dudes would do it

sign one year overseas and just sign a max contract with the Lakers > getting locked up by the Hornets for the next 7 years

how did u know

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

pretty sure you have to go through the draft

if it was possible, damn near all these dudes would do it

sign one year overseas and just sign a max contract with the Lakers > getting locked up by the Hornets for the next 7 years

This man with a prophetic post