Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[mvossman]

It must be VERY expensive for Dallas to take on enough salary to go back into the repeater window before July 1.

I doubt OKC is willing to pay that price, and I am hopeful that Dallas isn’t underselling a reset of the clock for repeater status. So my initial reaction to the return on the proposed OKC options was “they’ll never pay that” my secondary reaction from Dallas’ perspective was it “should never be much cheaper than that.”

I see next to no way to make that deal prior to the draft. After July 1st does the price diminish for OKC??

That being said, IF the deal is pre-July 1st:
salary from OKC, 12, 17, & 37, Dallas gets the option on the pick swap in 28.
for
30 & 48

There is no chance for something like this.  Presti is not going to have to pay this premium.  He has actual good players to dump and a ton of options.  He will find something better than this somewhere.