The Thunder have pulled their qualifying offer for Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, tweets Michael Scotto of HoopsHype. The third-year swingman will now be an unrestricted free agent.
The offer was valued at about $2.08MM and it covered just the upcoming season. By rescinding it, Oklahoma City no longer has the opportunity to match any offer that Mykhailiuk might receive in free agency.
The Thunder acquired Mykhailiuk in a March trade with the Pistons. He appeared in 30 games for OKC, starting nine, and averaged 10.3 points and 3.0 rebounds per night.
Adam Silver really gonna let them do that guy dirty…speechless
So if Sviatoslay had signed it a day earlier would the Thunder had been stuck with it?
Yup
So basically they traded a nice promising young player in diallo for a 2027 second round pick
Yup and many thanks from Detroit!
OKC didn’t want to pay Diallo
Some redundancies there with him and Ty Jerome, so not too surprising. Bunch if teams out there that could use shooting at his position
That’s should not be allowed. Like signing contract for 100m and next day. Sorry we are taking it back. And than sign with other player.
Not quite. If the rules were similar to baseball where there was some kind of compensation like a second round pick, then I could understand a team being forced to stay with its QO. The issue with the QO in basketball is that once it’s accepted the player can veto any trade during the season then become a UFA after the season. If he was worried about his prospects to get another offer, he should have accepted it ASAP.
All the QO does is make players a RFA if they don’t accept it. I don’t know if hockey’s QO offer work the same way, but football has a similar system with their franchise/transition tags and tenders (i.e. the player can sign them at any time but the team can also rescind it). Svi is a fringe NBA player meaning best case scenario he would’ve been part of the 2nd or 3rd wave of players to sign. If there was any doubt on whether or not he was going to get an offer from somewhere else or more money; he probably should’ve taken the QO. Clearly the Thunder didn’t value him too highly otherwise they probably wouldn’t have rescinded the QO.
He should have took the deal. He had to know he was a fringe nba talent anyway. That is a bad agent he has. Now he may not get signed.
He can play overseas. He probably thinks he can get more or the same but might end up in the D league
Good for OKC, they just dodged a bullet right there, realistically this dude is just a shooter, numbers says not a very good one at all, so I can see him playing overseas this year.
I thought he was decent. Maybe someone picks him up.
This has a GState low cost signing feel to it.