When is the NBA trade deadline?
Teams can make trades between the start of the regular season up to the NBA’s trade deadline — 3pm (eastern) on the seventeenth Thursday of the season. (The trade deadline for the 2018-19 season was February 7, 2019 .) For teams that do not make the playoffs, they can start making trades again on the day after their last regular season game.
How long can a rookie NBA player be traded?
Any draft rookie (whether drafted in the first or second round) that signs a standard NBA contract and any player that signs a two-way contract may not be traded for 30 days after they sign.
What is the cash cap for the 2019-20 season?
The aggregate cash limit in the 2019-20 season is $5.617 million, and the limit increases (or decreases) each season at the same rate as the salary cap. Cash that a team pays during that season’s trades is not netted against cash received in that season’s trades.
What is the maximum salary increase for a sign and trade?
The maximum annual salary increases for any sign-and-trade are 5% of the first season covered by the contract.
How to finalize a trade?
To finalize a trade, teams have to participate in a trade call with the league where they confirm the trade’s details. Teams must disclose all relevant information they have about a player during this call. (And this is why the New York Knicks disclosed the sexual assault allegations surrounding Kristaps Porzingis to the Dallas Mavericks during their trade call; if they had not disclosed this information, the league could have rescinded the trade, fined the Knicks up to $1 million, taken away future draft picks, or a combination of these punishments.)
How many seasons can a team trade?
To prevent teams from getting around these limitations, teams cannot trade any player that signs an extension covering more than 3 seasons, a higher salary, or with larger annual increases for the next 6 months.
When can you sign and trade a contract?
For a player and his current team, a sign-and-trade is allowed if (i) they are amending the contract to do so (but not by renegotiating the contract, i.e., by increasing the player’s salary), (ii) the amendment is not made between the last day of the last regular season covered by the contract and June 30 , and (iii) the contract, if also being extended, meets the extension-and-trade rules described below.
Playoff Teams Play to their Strengths
The Trade: Philadelphia 76ers trade Ben Simmons to the Portland Trail Blazers for CJ McCollum and a first-round pick.
Toronto and Sacramento Get Wild
The Trade: The Sacramento Kings send Buddy Hield , Marvin Bagley, and a future first-round pick to the Toronto Raptors for Pascal Siakam and Yuta Watanabe.
NBA Trades can Help Both Sides
The Trade: The Indiana Pacers send Myles Turner to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Malik Beasley and two second-round picks.
