So, About Playing in Europe … Where You Might Not Get Paid

Once upon a time, it was seen as a cool (and lucrative) thing to do. Today? Not so much: “There are some situations where [European teams] only paying the foreign players on time, and the domestic players are being asked to kind of understand the situation and get paid in due time,” said Bryan Colangelo, the Toronto Raptors’ general manager. “And then there’s some situations that might even be worse than that.”