by Chilikonkarne » Sun Nov 29, 2020 6:02 am
Yes, those players can be drafted.
There are young players who refused to play in NCAA out of high school and sign with a D-League team.
It is a trend which is increasing in real life (same logic than players like Ball, Hampton who signed in Australia before the draft or Jennings in Italy back then).
At the end of the year, they can be drafted like the prospects out of NCAA.
The big advantage is you have a much better view of their talent/potential as they evolve in the D-League and you can access their stats and profile in detail.
In my first fictional draft, one player out of D-League made it to the top 5. This year, one guy is ripping competition with 31ppg a game and I could see him go top 3. But I believe in most cases, it should be relatively rare to have D-league prospects making the lottery.