I am curious how mutual options get exercised. Is there a required order: does the team have to decide first to bring them back? Or does the player?
(I keep trying to decide which way it should go, but between describing a base salary assuming player decides no to come back, a team buy out, they kinda imply differing order, and in the case neither wants the second year, without and order it'd feel like a weird staring contest over that buy out money.
And how does that work if the player gets traded?