Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[DanSchwartzgan]

Somebody needs to say it. Beal got his 25% huge salary advance yesterday. That's all this buyout was waiting on, for weeks. The next day after, he pulls the trigger on the buyout. 

Part of me wonders what things around the league might have been held up waiting for the Beal destination.  Could part of the "Dallas trade in 48 hours" talk be about this.  

For instance, GSW only has 10 players under contract right now with some FA business still to be done. If they were waiting on Beal, are they now free to proceed with Plan B?  I wouldn't exactly call them loaded at C and PF.