4:00pm: Bediako’s agent Daniel Green has revealed that the big man tore his left meniscus and is now slated to be on the shelf for the next six-to-eight weeks, per Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report (Twitter link).
3:11pm: Two-way center Charles Bediako has been cut by the Spurs, according to a team press release.
San Antonio initially inked the seven-footer to a two-way contract after he went undrafted out of Alabama this past summer. He averaged 7.7 PPG and 6.9 RPG for San Antonio’s Austin NBAGL affiliate across 11 games.
Bediako was an All-SEC Tourney and SEC All-Defense honoree, averaging 6.6 PPG, 5.2 RPG,, 1.7 BPG, 0.7 APG and 0.6 SPG in two years for the Crimson Tide.
As Bobby Marks of ESPN tweets, salaries for two-way players are not fully guaranteed until January 7.
Bediako’s departure now leaves a two-way slot open on the Spurs’ roster next to shooting guard David Duke Jr. and power forward Dominick Barlow. How San Antonio opts to move forward with that opening remains to be seen.
Did he sustain the injury off-court? Because if not, it’s pretty lame teams can cut players after they get hurt playing for said teams…there are workers comp laws against that, also, so curious how that works…
Take it up with your players association rep…pretty sure they’re familiar with the rules since they ya know agreed to them?
It’s not like he had a guaranteed contract.
Players on non-guaranteed contracts who get injured and get waived continue to be paid by their teams until they’re healthy or until the end of the season, whichever comes first.
I’d have to double-check to confirm that this rule also applies to players on two-way contracts, but I believe it does.
The only exceptions are players on Exhibit 9 contracts, since those are specifically designed to allow teams to reduce their liability in the event of an injury.
That was nice of you Spurs to let him play in the NBA for a minute