Post by spudbeaver on Jan 16, 2018 21:03:24 GMT -8
It's new this year to the NBA. It essentially signs a player to one team as a G-League player with the option of the player spending up to 45 days in the NBA on his contracted team (ONLY) during the course of the season. Their pay is higher than players who are signed just to the G-league and increases when called up to the NBA team. When they play in the NBA, they make NBA rookie-minimum wage for the amount of time in the NBA.
So Payton II will play for the Lakers G-League affiliate and can be called up to the NBA only by the Lakers (as opposed to players that can be called up to the NBA by any team) for a maximum of 45 days during the course of the season. His pay will be $50-75k/year, as opposed to $19-26k/year for standard G-leaguers and will increase to a pro-rated portion of the rookie minimum when he is called up.
