since the blazers have his draft rights, i think the blazers have to renounce his rights or waive him for him to be a free agent, and i dont think the blazers will do that this season. since he was also injured i dont know how that affects his status, maybe when hes healthy the blazers will let him play overseas or in the D League

According to something i read, it says that:

If the player was still eligible to play in college before he was drafted, the team retains the player’s draft rights until the draft the player would have entered had he not left college early. For example, if a team drafts a college sophomore in 2005, they retain his draft rights until the date of the 2007 draft. Note that the current NCAA rules state that players lose their NCAA eligibility if they are drafted, so the player could not return or go on to play college ball.

Does that mean that the Blazers will hold his rights until he would have graduated from college?

team can retain his rights, he’ll likely be waived after doing it. My thought is that the organization wants Mills to play overseas so that the ballclub can retain his rights, although it’d definitely be in the Aussie’s best interest to force the franchise’s hand for his own short-term and long-term benefit.

The Blazers have to either waive him or offer him a contract.

You can’t hold someone’s rights for “free” if they’re without another team.

We own his NBA rights.

Foreign players (Mills is Australian) that we hold NBA rights to can go play in other leagues. Like Klaver, Koponen, all those guys.

We retained the rights to Sabonis for years that way.

As AK said, he could easily force his way into being waived by the Blazers and then going overseas. More profitable to be a free agent.

whose right the blazers have held on to forever were first round picks. Is there a difference bewteen first round picks and second round picks in the way their draft rights are handled?