xdrta+ wrote:statsman wrote:Old_Blue wrote:I'm starting to wonder whether the Dubs will even pick up TJD's option. What's the deadline on that decision?
The option for next season needs to be decided by 6/29/26.
His contract becomes guaranteed for the remainder of this season on 1/10/26. If he is waived before that date, the Warriors only count the amount they paid him up until that point on team salary. The Warriors could replace him at that time with a vet minimum for very little additional cost over what he would be making. If he were to be picked up off waivers, then the Warriors could remove his paid salary off the books.
Sadly, that guarantee date comes before the earliest Kuminga can be traded, which is 1/15/26. He could have been salary filler in a Kuminga trade, where the other team could waive him after the trade for no cost (other than needing a roster spot at the time of the trade).
Maybe I'm not following. He would have to be guaranteed to be salary filler.
I think that’s the point statesman was making. We have to guarantee him on 1/10 in order to be eligible to be part of a trade after 1/15…… whereas another team may not really want him, so if his guarantee date was, say, 2/1, we could include him in a trade to make it a legal trade, but then the new team could just cut him without paying him anything.
I assume his contract is like others, where you can negotiate and potentially push back the guarantee date. If so, I’d try doing so if I was the Warriors.
