The 2017-18 NBA season saw the advent of two-way contracts. This allows teams to sign two players to low-money deals that allow them to spend most of their time in the G-League, but also up to 45 days with the parent NBA team.
With the growing role of the G-League for player development in the NBA, these players should prove to be more and more important. In the past, teams had choose to either sign an undrafted player to the 15-man roster, or sign him to their affiliate G-League team and hope another team didn’t snatch him up.