DAL OFFSEASON: Trade & FA | Mavs "mostly done...but you never know."

[DanSchwartzgan]

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Hope Dan caught that about the transaction window, including opt-ins and opt-outs etc., will be before the draft. It would be huge for the Mavs if they could trade THJ on draft day.

So that was confirmed then, the opt-in is before the draft?

Not confirmed.  This comes from a Woj tweet 

"Talks on opening the NBA’s transaction window — trades, contract opt-ins and outs, etc. — are progressing toward firming a date two or three days prior to the November 18 draft, sources tell ESPN".

That's a pretty wide net.  You could have trades and the earliest opt-in/opt-out dates starting the 15th and 16th and still have the final deadline for THJ be the 19th.  But, the wording also leaves open the possibility of all options being due at the same time as trades are allowed.  Time will tell.

The below is from Bobby Marks...It appears the dates for individual options (team and player) will be set individually.  So, those that were due pre-draft will still be pre-draft and those that were on the standard date (WCS and THJ) will continue to be post-draft.


What else needs to be finalized?

The heavy lifting of agreeing on a start date for the season, escrow rules and the salary cap is done. After the Nov. 18 draft, free-agent negotiations can start on Nov. 20 (at 6 p.m. ET) and signings will begin on Nov. 22.

Now the attention shifts to amending the dates for the 43 players who have team or player options (including Anthony Davis and Gordon Hayward), non-guaranteed contracts that have a trigger date, the deadline to submit a qualifying offer and trade exceptions that are due to expire.

The Warriors' $17.2 million trade exception that originally had a July 7 expiration date probably will now expire on Nov. 27. Besides the contractual matters, the missing dates for the below 2020-21 basketball calendar will also need to be finalized.