Felipe Reyes says he'll study any interesting offers

Probably the best big man outside the NBA

As seen on my post about PF's outside the NBA

Felipe Reyes, A.K.A. Gladiator, 29, 6'9", Real Madrid

ACB Stats: 28min, 16.3pt, 54.9 2pt%, 71.7 ft%, 9.4Reb (3.8Off), 1.8As, 1.3St, 0.3Bk

ACB's regular season MVP is a well established star in Europe who's never had much consideration for NBA. He's an important member of the spanish national team, with a World Championship and an Olympic silver medal, and he proves his toughness on a daily basis. Despite his size, he's a great rebounder, specially on the offensive end. He doesn't have as many offensive moves as Scola, but he's tougher and a better rebounder, and creates many of his points off his amazing offensive rebounding ability.

Way to get him: Signing him. A 3Mill/year 3 year deal, with (at least) another spanish player on the roster and the challenge of playing on the NBA could work. Also Rudy will spend the summer with him playing with the national team, he could talk him into signing.

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Now I'm not so sure he'd take a 3Mill/year 3year, but he'd be a steal for less than the MLE.

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Did he ever declare for the draft?

If so, what teams hold his rights? Unless you declared for the draft and nobody picked you (happened to Calderon) you have to go trough the motions.

by Xavier Garcia on May 19, 2009 4:39 PM PDT reply actions

Senior Players (or 22 year olds) are automatically elegible

And then if they go undrafted (like Calderon and now Felipe Reyes) they can be signed as Unrestricted Free Agents

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

by DaniBCN on May 19, 2009 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Untrue I think

http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#Q48

Once you’ve been eligible during a draft, you can be signed. You don’t have to declare to be eligible, unless you’re young.

by pualo on May 19, 2009 4:46 PM PDT reply actions

Maybe

it depends on who else we were to get, we would not want more than 1 rookie this year. And when you said "with (at least) another spanish player on the roster " I asume you meant a possibility of Rubio, because Serge is gone. He would still be a rookie in the NBA no matter how old he is and unless we can get a more experienced vet somewhere i think it would be tough to bring him over. Good find though, he seems like he might be alright for our backup 4.

by raging WebTed on May 19, 2009 5:13 PM PDT reply actions

We still have Rudy

by Zaig on May 20, 2009 8:43 AM PDT up reply actions

i liked him in the olympics

he could be a very solid back up, go get him kp!

"Howard, he know me" Rudy

by phillyduck23 on May 19, 2009 9:40 PM PDT reply actions

Bring him on!

I, too, noticed him in the Olympics and I can see the Scola comparisons. He’d be an interesting and positive additions. Sign him, sign Prigioni (technically Argentine/Italian [why are all the Argentine players besides Herrmann Italian?] but speaks Spanish), trade up to draft Rubio… It’s Portland v. Memphis for the Spanish gateway to the NBA!

by meru on May 20, 2009 7:23 AM PDT reply actions