12-07-2022, 12:29 AM
(12-05-2022, 05:34 PM)SkenfromLMF Wrote: I didn't think Dragic would be tradable this year, OR AT LEAST until the very end of the TDL because he signed so late.
It wasn't even close to pushing it back due to signing date. The normal wait period, before a signed player can be traded, is either 90 days or Dec 15, whichever is later. While Aug 2 is certainly late, it's not late enough to push back the trade date at all.
You may have been thinking of an extension done late in August (or later), which can indeed stymie a trade all season. Unless those extensions are structured to fit within extend-and-trade limits, they create a 6-month no-trade window. So the cutoff this season would have been Aug 9, to keep from being no-trade all season. (Or, if seen from a different lens, if you don't do the extension until Aug 10 and you make sure it contains a big enough raise or long enough, you can be assured you won't get traded mid-season.)