China Fighting K-Mart's NBA Return

[Giantmetfan07]

Chinese Basketball Association officials are fighting FIBA’s decision to allow Kenyon Martin to immediately return to the NBA, demanding that Martin be forbidden to play until later this month, sources told Yahoo! Sports.

China has forwarded an affidavit to FIBA and the NBA – signed by Martin upon his departure in late December – that stipulates he wouldn’t play in the NBA until his Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers’ season had ended. China is demanding the contract be honored and Martin have to wait until the Flying Tigers finish their season.

The Flying Tigers have six games left and need a winning streak to catapult them into the playoffs. Their final regular-season game is Feb. 16..

Chinese Basketball Association officials are insisting the clearance letter request was deliberately sent to their office over the New Year when they wouldn’t be available to respond. After seven days without a response, FIBA’s guidelines allow it to issue the letter of clearance that all international leagues – including the NBA – need to validate that a player has fulfilled contractual obligations elsewhere.

In truth, Martin is expected to work out for a week with any NBA team he joins before becoming activated. So even if the NBA reverses its ruling, Martin could likely still be back on the floor in two weeks.

Yahoo

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Makes sense, how'd he get out of the contract? Anyone know?

 

[Giantmetfan07]

FIBA gave him clearance to return.

And Martin & the team in China reached a buyout agreement back in December but they still wouldn't let him return to the NBA.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

So why did he get to come back but guys like Wilson Chandler, JR Smith, and Aaron Brooks haven't?

 

[footballplaya52]

So why did he get to come back but guys like Wilson Chandler, JR Smith, and Aaron Brooks haven't?

my guess is cause he did this

"Chinese Basketball Association officials are insisting the clearance letter request was deliberately sent to their office over the New Year when they wouldn’t be available to respond. After seven days without a response, FIBA’s guidelines allow it to issue the letter of clearance that all international leagues – including the NBA – need to validate that a player has fulfilled contractual obligations elsewhere."

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Not sure. I'm trying to 100% understand what Woj said in the article, but from what I can gather, his letter requesting clearance was sent to the Chinese league's offices during the holidays, and after 7 days without a response, FIBA had the right to clear him.

I don't exactly understand it, or maybe I'm reading it wrong.

And yeah, it doesn't make total sense because the agents for Chandler, Smith & Brooks are fuming over this "early clearance" by FIBA.

PS. Basically i looked it up on his Twitter account and he made it a little clearer -- It seems like K-Mart sent a letter of clearance to the Chinese League offices, and because of the holidays they didn't respond in time -- so FIBA was able to issue him their own letter of clearance that validates his Free Agency internationally.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

Lmao, sounds like someone got played.

 

[Pugz]

KMart is thuggin on these hoes.