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Williams has been so good lately.  Legit looks like a rotation player on a good team.  Time will tell if that has staying power.

I read one of the advantages of signing a two way guy is you can sign them for another year or so at the minimum as non guaranteed deals.  Correct?  I really wonder if Williams so no thanks to future years and thinks he could get something g guaranteed and over the minimum this summer?

You have the right idea in general, but it has nothing to do with a 2-way player.

When a player's 2-way deal is "converted" to a 15-man roster deal, he can be signed to any contract that the team would be able to sign any other player to. Given that he has been a hybrid G-League level player, the contract offer would almost certainly be for minimum salary.

As for what type of contract, when a team's "Team Salary" is over the cap, they have to use an "exception" to that cap limit and stay within the limits of that exception. Doing something longer is always possible, because every team is granted an unlimited number of Minimum Salary exceptions, which allows up to 2 seasons.

The 1st season would be rest-of-season for the 2024-25 season, which includes any post-season games for the team, and then you go from there.

The Mavs do have some of their MLE still available, and can use a slice, which allows up to 4 seasons in total. Added seasons may be guaranteed or not as the parties negotiate, and an option year is allowable. The ideal for the Mavs after this season would be 2 future non-guaranteed years, followed by a Team Option for the 4th, at the minimum.

While that might seem like a lot of Mav-advantaged contract terms, the other side is that with Williams you have a player who went undrafted in 2021 and has been scuffling to get 2-way deals and develop as a player ever since. If he says no, they may not offer him a deal at all, and he would still be under Mav control as a RFA. I think he would eagerly jump at whatever they want to offer, to get his foot in the door.

One other point: while getting a deal so close to the end of season seems minor, for these players it is not. The reason is that signing to a 15-man deal, even for just one day in the season, even if he does not play, gives a player a year of "service" for that season, and 10 seasons of service guarantees him the MAXIMUM allowable NBA pension of almost 200K for life, once he reaches retirement age.

KNUTSEN: " What are the rules for two-way-players in the postseason?"

Ineligible. You must be a player with a regular 15-man roster contract to be able to play. No exceptions. And no way to expand the number on a team's 15-man to more than that. Mavs have 14 right now.