"Will he be an UFA if the team declines his TO? "
"what would other teams offer for his services?"
There are a lot of moving parts with Dort, since his salary is desirable (vs Hartenstein's, which is not).
If OKC declines the TO, Dort will be a UFA. OKC will have cap permission to sign him, but (assuming they aren't going to pay 100M or more in tax) they won't really have practical room to do so unless they make lots of cuts elsewhere. That's not impossible, of course, but it will be hard since the thing making their payroll so high is the big salary players they likely would prioritize (SGA, Williams, Holmgren).
If they decline his TO and let him be a UFA and someone signs him, they get no compensation. So it makes sense that they would want to do the TO and then trade him to a team who can send back little-to-no salary along with a pick. The size of the asset probably is driven by whether you get Dort for only a year, and then might lose him as a FA, or whether you can extend him at a feasible salary as part of the trade.
The Mavs TPE allows them to do a deal like that. Other teams have ways as well, or at least to do something similar perhaps. No way to know what the demand would be overall, or if the Mavs would be in such competition, or if they could make it happen.
"what would other teams offer for his services?"
There are a lot of moving parts with Dort, since his salary is desirable (vs Hartenstein's, which is not).
If OKC declines the TO, Dort will be a UFA. OKC will have cap permission to sign him, but (assuming they aren't going to pay 100M or more in tax) they won't really have practical room to do so unless they make lots of cuts elsewhere. That's not impossible, of course, but it will be hard since the thing making their payroll so high is the big salary players they likely would prioritize (SGA, Williams, Holmgren).
If they decline his TO and let him be a UFA and someone signs him, they get no compensation. So it makes sense that they would want to do the TO and then trade him to a team who can send back little-to-no salary along with a pick. The size of the asset probably is driven by whether you get Dort for only a year, and then might lose him as a FA, or whether you can extend him at a feasible salary as part of the trade.
The Mavs TPE allows them to do a deal like that. Other teams have ways as well, or at least to do something similar perhaps. No way to know what the demand would be overall, or if the Mavs would be in such competition, or if they could make it happen.