Questionés about NBA team signing a player who was playing overseas

[Buckeye Fever]

I see Lonnie Walker IV has been back in the league for a some weeks/months. I know I had seen him playing this season over in Europe(maybe Lithuania or Greece). Now he is on the sixers. Do the NBA teams have to compensate the teams they sign the players from?

If you are on a Euro squad, you must've been an important piece for an NBA team to sign you.

Does that player walk into the coach's office, talkin' about "I decided to run with another team back in the states"

If I played out of the country, I'd do anything to get back to the NBA

 

[Osmar]

Nah, European clubs give them options in their contract to terminate them to go back to the NBA by a certain date, which is what Lonnie Walker IV did.

Also, NBA teams sometimes compensate them.

In the Lonnie Walker case he terminated his contract and the 76ers gave them some compensation.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Nah, European clubs give them options in their contract to terminate them to go back to the NBA by a certain date, which is what Lonnie Walker IV did.

Also, NBA teams sometimes compensate them.

In the Lonnie Walker case he terminated his contract and the 76ers gave them some compensation.

Thanks. I was always intrigued by how those situations were handled