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[QUOTE="721Comstock, post: 1996087, member: 5429"]
You're implying that playing in Europe is somehow a better level of competition than the D-league? 
That's highly debatable.

The NBA has an excellent minor league - it's called the NCAA.  :p

The guys getting sent down are STILL ON CONTRACT with their NBA team - they're getting PAID.  
Silent G is making some nice coin - and getting a LOT more PT in the D-league - AND better competition, than occasional scrub minutes in blowouts w/ the Pistons, against other scrubs in "extended garbahge time", as Marv would say.

It's the guys (like CJ, et al) who sign w/ a D-league team and do NOT have an NBA contract, that work for peanuts.  
Many of those guys might be better served financially playing in Europe, etc.  
But - they all harbor dreams of making it in the NBA, and you can't blame them for giving it a shot.  
There have been plenty of guys who have followed that route to successful, lucrative NBA careers.

(granted, it's still the exception, not the rule - but then again, 99% of all college athletes never go Pro, period - so they're all fighting the odds)
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