NBA Team Option Decisions For 2022/23

Having already created a space to track this offseason’s player option decisions, we’re turning our attention today to team options. Over the next couple months, we’ll use the space below to keep tabs on all the team options for 2022/23, making note of whether they’re exercised or declined.

True team options are different than non-guaranteed salaries, which aren’t listed in the space below. Non-guaranteed salaries are less restrictive and provide a little more flexibility than team options, which clubs must act upon by a specific date (June 29) each year.

However, team options can be useful at the end of a contract, since turning down that option allows the team to retain some form of Bird rights on the player — waiving a player with a non-guaranteed salary doesn’t present that same opportunity. Additionally, a handful of contracts still don’t become fully guaranteed once an option is picked up, giving teams an extra level of flexibility.

The list below doesn’t include rookie scale team options for 2022/23, since those third- and fourth-year options function differently than team options on standard veteran contracts. Those ’22/23 rookie scale team option decisions were made during the 2021 offseason, and can be found here.

The standard team options for 2022/23 are listed below. This list – which can be found anytime under the “Hoops Rumors Features” menu on the right sidebar on our desktop site or on the “Features” page in our mobile menu – will be updated throughout the fall to note the latest decisions as they’re reported and/or announced.

Unless otherwise indicated, a player’s salary will become guaranteed once his team option is exercised.

Boston Celtics

• Juwan Morgan ($1,815,677): Exercised
  • Note: Morgan’s salary remains non-guaranteed even with his option exercised.
    
• Sam Hauser ($1,563,518): Declined

Brooklyn Nets

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  Kessler Edwards ($1,563,518): Declined

Charlotte Hornets

• Jalen McDaniels ($1,930,681): Exercised
  • Note: McDaniels’ salary remains non-guaranteed even with his option exercised, but will become fully guaranteed on August 1.

Cleveland Cavaliers

• Dean Wade ($1,930,681): Exercised
  • Note: Wade’s salary remains non-guaranteed even with his option exercised.

Detroit Pistons

• Hamidou Diallo ($5,200,000): Exercised
• Frank Jackson ($3,150,000): Declined
• Carsen Edwards ($1,815,677): Declined
• Luka Garza ($1,563,518): Declined

Houston Rockets

• Jae’Sean Tate ($1,782,621): Declined

Indiana Pacers

• Oshae Brissett ($1,846,738): Exercised
  • Note: Brissett’s salary remains non-guaranteed even with his option exercised.

Los Angeles Clippers

• Ivica Zubac ($7,518,518): Declined
  • Note: Zubac and the Clippers reached an extension agreement that involved declining his option.

Los Angeles Lakers

• Stanley Johnson ($2,351,521): Exercised
• Wenyen Gabriel ($1,878,720): Exercised
  • Note: Gabriel’s salary remains non-guaranteed even with his option exercised.

Minnesota Timberwolves

• Jaylen Nowell ($1,930,681): Exercised
  • Note: Nowell’s salary remains non-guaranteed even with his option exercised.
    
• Naz Reid ($1,930,681): Exercised
  • Note: Reid’s salary remains non-guaranteed even with his option exercised, but will become fully guaranteed on July 20.
    

Oklahoma City Thunder

• Mike Muscala ($3,500,000): Declined
• Luguentz Dort ($1,930,681): Declined
• Isaiah Roby ($1,930,681): Exercised
  • Note: Roby’s salary remains non-guaranteed even with his option exercised, but will become fully guaranteed on July 3.
    

Philadelphia 76ers

• Shake Milton ($1,997,718): Exercised

Sacramento Kings

• Trey Lyles ($2,625,000): Exercised