If single, No. If they have kids, most likely yes. Depends on the state how the provided housing would be involved.
7 Months a year and during the off season they can work camps, give lessons for extra $$. Look at what Tennis players, outside of the top 50 in the world, make from tournaments.
i doubt it, considering there's a ton of 100k and less players on Euroleague teams. Maybe that's the average for starters or something? Still, there are hundreds of Euro (Euroleague and lesser) teams that would top these NBDL numbers. Chances of breaking into the NBA would diminish, though.
There are few players making less than $100,000 gross dollars in Euroleague. Very few. Remember Euroleague salaries are net and in euros and NBA ones are gross and in dollars. The average salary is $1.3 million US dollars gross, for all Euroleague players. Even in Brose the salary is €4 million euros net income just for the base salary of the players. That means even in Brose €267,000 euros net income per player, which comes to about $650,000 to $700,000 US dollars gross (how NBA and D-League count salary). This is Brose, one of the very smallest clubs in the whole Euroleague, and a team that is loaded with several youth age players that don't even play, and of course get a small salary. Still, even in that Euroleague club the average salary comes to about $650,000 to $700,000 US dollars gross a year. Even most teenagers in Euroleague are making near or more than $100K US dollars gross a year. In the big Euroleague clubs, the average salary is of course way higher than in Brose, by several times. The very best, of the best, of the best D-League players can play in small clubs in Israel, Germany, France, Greece, Italy (non Euroleague teams) and make about $200,000 to $600,000 US dollars gross a year on average. An average D-League player is going to be lucky to get a contract for $50K to $100K in a league like Cyprus or Belgium, or in even smaller leagues. or in the second division in Spain or something like that. So, yes, many D-League players can earn a lot more in Europe, but probably half the guys in D-League could not even get a contract in a small European team in a small European league. Europe is a much better option for very good D-League players, but for many D-League players it not even an option at all.
US "low income" is around $46,000, whereas "poverty line" is around $23,000. A US D-Leaguer needs to either have a second job or a spouse pulling a decent salary just to break the poverty line for his family. Talk about a hard life...
That's why NBA D-League is really classed as semi professional basketball level. It's not a professional level like playing in NBA, or playing overseas in Europe, China, Australia, Japan, better Latin American leagues and so forth.
$23k is poverty for a family of four. These guys do get housing, and are only working for roughly half the year.
