With a new crop of rookies entering the NBA this fall, there won’t be enough room for all of the free agents who finished the 2021/22 season on NBA teams to find new jobs in the league.
Some of those players who are left on the outside looking in will retire. Many others will find work around the world, in one of the many professional basketball leagues in Europe, Asia, Australia, or South America.
As our free agent tracker shows, there have been 15 players so far who were on an NBA roster when the season ended in April and have since joined an international team.
That list of 15 doesn’t include players like Semi Ojeleye or James Ennis, who played in the NBA in 2021/22 but weren’t under contract with a team at the end of the season. We’ve been keeping tabs on many of those players and their new teams throughout the offseason, but the players listed below were all NBA free agents this spring.
Here are the details on where those players are headed:
Australia
- Melbourne United: Rayjon Tucker, Bucks (story)
China
- Zhejiang Golden Bulls: Moses Wright, Mavericks (story)
France
Germany
- Bayern Munich: Isaac Bonga, Raptors (story)
- Bayern Munich: Cassius Winston, Wizards (story)
Greece
- Panathinaikos: Georgios Kalaitzakis, Thunder (story)
- Promitheas Patras: Arnoldas Kulboka, Hornets (story)
Italy
- Virtus Bologna: Gabriel Lundberg, Suns (story)
Lithuania
- Zalgiris Kaunas: Ignas Brazdeikis, Magic (story)
Philippines
- Bay Area Dragons: Myles Powell, Sixers (story)
- Note: The Dragons normally play in Hong Kong, but are temporarily based in Manila in the Philippines due to COVID-19 restrictions in Hong Kong.
Spain
- Barcelona: Tomas Satoransky, Wizards (story)
- Baskonia: Markus Howard, Nuggets (story)
- Valencia: Jared Harper, Pelicans (story)
Turkey
- Fenerbahce: Nemanja Bjelica, Warriors (story)
- Fenerbahce: Carsen Edwards, Pistons (story)
With dozens of veterans still unsigned just four weeks before NBA training camps begin, it’s a safe bet that we’ll be adding a few more names to the above list before the season tips off in October.
Come to Australia!!!
They like not being in lockdown
Australia haven’t been under restriction for a while