Before the 2018 NBA Draft even arrived, Dewayne Dedmon elected to exercise his player option to remain with the Atlanta Hawks. That was something of a surprise, if only from a timing perspective, but there was a similar domino still to fall in the person of Mike Muscala. Like Dedmon, Muscala’s deadline for exercising his 2018-2019 player option was June 29 and, in the end, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the veteran big man reportedly elected to do just that.
Hawks forward Mike Muscala has exercised his $5M player option, source tells ESPN.