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What are the advantages and disadvantages for a player of opting in the 3rd year?
Donald is the only one who suffered disadvantages. All the other opters got contracts.
The advantage is that you come up for a 2nd contract sooner and so get paid your market worth sooner rather than being underpaid for your level of play on a rookie contract.
For the team, the advantage is getting a guy you want to keep on a deal that is at least a bit less expensive than the kind of deal he would get in his free agent year.
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I don't see what the advantage is for the player if he has no leverage to get a team to pay him his market worth sooner. What can he do to get it? What's his leverage?
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