Draymond Green cannot be traded immediately after returning to Golden State on a reported one-year, $27.7 million contract. Even after the initial restriction expires, the Warriors may still need his permission unless the executed contract eliminates a separate consent right.
The signing starts a new clock
Green declined a player option worth essentially the same amount, but the new agreement is a one-year free-agent contract, not the old option. A newly signed free agent generally cannot be traded until the later of three months after signing or December 15.
The exact signing date therefore matters. Until the contract is executed, Golden State cannot complete that calendar calculation or redirect Green’s salary immediately into another deal.
Consent may remain necessary
The reported absence of a negotiated no-trade clause does not settle what happens after the waiting period. A player on a qualifying one-year contract has trade-consent rights when he will or may have Bird or Early Bird rights at the end of the season.
That protection comes from the CBA rather than a negotiated no-trade clause. The player and team can eliminate it when the contract is signed, but whether Green’s executed deal contains such a waiver has not been established.
The Warriors therefore control Green’s roster spot under the reported agreement, not an unconditional trade route. He cannot be moved immediately, and Golden State’s later authority to trade him without approval depends on the unresolved waiver.