The Dallas Mavericks summer is mostly over, and with training camp now weeks away instead of months, there’s one final piece of roster business to attend to: completing the re-signing of guard Dante Exum.

Dallas needs some additional financial wiggle room to slot in Exum’s salary and it appears either forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper or guard Jaden Hardy are the candidates to be traded or waived by the end of the week, according to NBA insiders Marc Stein and Jake Fischer.

The reason for a resolution by the end of this week is due to Friday’s deadline to waive-and-stretch a player’s 2025-2026 salary. If the Mavericks cannot find a workable trade by Friday, one of either Prosper or Hardy will be waived to clear the space for Exum’s new contract. Exum and the Mavericks agreed to a new 1-yea

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