{"id":18304,"date":"2026-08-31T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sentinels-trade-clock\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:44:38","slug":"sentinels-trade-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/sentinels-trade-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit\u2019s trade clock is ticking, and the front office knows it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three expiring contracts, one protected pick, and a deadline that arrives before the roster is settled. Summit\u2019s front office has six weeks and one decision.<\/p>\n\n<h2 id=\"the-contracts\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The contracts<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two starters and a backup centre come off the books in the summer. Extend all three and the wage bill breaks the cap; extend none and the team that finished fourth loses its spine for nothing.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"anps-statband wp-block-sportpulse-stat-band\"><div class=\"anps-sechead\"><p class=\"anps-sechead__kicker\">\/\/ The cap sheet<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-statband__grid anps-statband__grid--inline\" style=\"--anps-statband-cols:3\"><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">3<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">Expiring deals<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">\u00a34.1m<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">Room under the cap<\/p><\/div><div class=\"anps-stat anps-stat--default\"><p class=\"anps-stat__value\">1<\/p><p class=\"anps-stat__label\">Protected pick<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<h2 id=\"the-market\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The market<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two clubs have called about the centre. One of them is Valley, who would be trading with a direct rival, which is either a reason not to or the whole point.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/signage-1024x682.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/signage-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/signage-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/signage-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/signage-1536x1023.webp 1536w, https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/signage.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Summit\u2019s arena: the lease is up next year too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three expiring contracts, one protected pick, and a deadline that arrives before the roster is settled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_spx_person_id":0,"_spx_fixture_id":0,"_spx_pick_id":0,"_spx_eg_facts_label":"","_spx_eg_facts":"","_spx_figure_caption":"","_spx_news_feat":"","_spx_video_url":"","_spx_duration":"","_spx_views":"","_spx_presenter":"","_spx_media_state":"","_spx_start_at":"","_spx_media_status":"","_spx_episode":"","_spx_subject":"","_spx_subject_role":"","_spx_story_year":"","_spx_duration_seconds":0,"_spx_view_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[113,115,254],"spx_comp":[],"spx_fixture_ref":[],"spx_series":[],"spx_format":[],"spx_video_kind":[],"spx_show":[],"spx_sport":[],"spx_flag":[],"class_list":["post-18304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-continental-basketball-league","tag-contracts","tag-trades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"spx_comp","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_comp?post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"spx_fixture_ref","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_fixture_ref?post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"spx_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_series?post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"spx_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_format?post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"spx_video_kind","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_video_kind?post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"spx_show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_show?post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"spx_sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_sport?post=18304"},{"taxonomy":"spx_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/spx_flag?post=18304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}