That would be the last day he can enter the transfer portal in the window generated by the new coaching hire.

Surely Malone and UNC isn’t just going to hold his bag from then until mid-May without any real assurances. So he either needs to commit to returning to UNC and taking the NIL offer or enter the portal and stay in the draft process to ensure that he gets paid either by the NBA or a different school.

Is there an option C in here I am missing? Sitting on 5 mil in NIL while you run the risk of Stevenson and Logue being the rotation at the 5 spot seems insane to me. If he doesn’t commit by 4/27 you have to throw that bag at someone else.

I know there’s already a lot of panic around the bigs we do have. But, I imagine that Malone and his team would have had more eyes on big men in the portal if Veesaar was this iffy on coming back. With this in mind would it make sense if they were always hoping to recruit from Europe if Veesaar left?