NBA veterans Skal Labissiere and Brandon Knight are among a list of 101 players eligible for the 2021 G League Draft, which takes place tomorrow, October 23.
Some other interesting names on the list, with varying amounts of NBA experience, include Lance Stephenson, Nate Darling, Trevon Duval, Shamorie Ponds, Karim Mane, and Joe Young.
Marc Stein of Substack tweets that Stephenson might land with the Nuggets‘ affiliate, the Grand Rapids Gold.
Knight was signed and waived last week (Knicks), as was Darling (Clippers), so perhaps there were procedural issues with their affiliate rights, similar to what happened with the Hornets and LiAngelo Ball.
The full G League Draft order can be found here.
Shamorie Ponds = a bucket
Marquese Chriss and Harry Giles are not on the List.
I wonder what the Criteria is for them to be added to the Pool of of names. I guess they have to be willing to play in the GLeague instead of Europe?
Actually, all of these Players can make more Money playing in Europe than the GLeague. Maybe they have family reasons for staying Stateside.
So there are 84 draft picks with 101 eligible players. Only 17 guys won’t get picked?
As Redmobb7 noted down-thread, a lot of G League draft picks simply get forfeited, especially after the first round, since many teams already have enough players via affiliate rights, returning rights, two-way, tryouts, etc.
Last year there were supposed to be 57 picks, but only 25 players got selected.
Umm…All of these players NBA experience, or connection to a team.
Most of the gleague teams will forfeit their picks after the first round.. so many of these guys won’t be drafted at all