During the second round of next week's NBA Draft, you'll hear the names of plenty of players selected who won't play for their teams in 2015-16. Instead, they'll head -- or stay -- overseas to continue improving before potentially coming to the NBA down the line. This is the "draft-and-stash" method that has become a crucial part of drafting.
While many players never develop into NBA-caliber players or pass on the opportunity to come to the league because they can make more money overseas, patience with their picks allowed the Chicago Bulls to add Rookie of the Year runner-up Nikola Mirotic and the San Antonio Spurs to land Manu Ginobili and Tiago Splitter, among others.
To evaluate the talent that might be headed to the NBA in the future, I used translated stats from the D-League, Euroleague, EuroCup, Adriatic League, Spanish ACB, French Pro A to project most players whose rights are held by teams. (A handful have not played in any of these leagues within the past three years.) Based on how stats have translated from these leagues to the NBA in the past, we can get a general sense of their value. These projections are expressed in my per-minute win percentage, where .500 is an average player and .410 is approximately replacement level -- the minimum threshold needed to add value to an NBA roster.
Let's take a look at these ratings and the likelihood of players coming over on a team-by-team basis.