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NBA Salary Guarantee Dates For Summer 2017

April 25th 2017 at 9:00am CST by Luke Adams

Nearly every NBA team has at least one player on their books with a non-guaranteed salary or a partially guaranteed salary for the 2017/18 season. In the majority of those cases, the team has the ability to waive the player and get off the hook for that entire salary before it becomes guaranteed. However, many of those decisions will be due well before next year’s regular season gets underway.

Below, we’ve broken down the upcoming salary guarantee dates for many players currently on non-guaranteed or partially guaranteed contracts for 2017/18. Not every player on a non-guaranteed deal is included here — if a player’s contract doesn’t include any early salary guarantee dates, and won’t become fully guaranteed until January 2018, we’ll look at his deal at a later date.

For now, we want to get a better idea of which teams will have to make decisions on salary guarantees during or before the free agent period. So if a player’s non-guaranteed contract becomes fully or partially guaranteed during the months of June, July, or August, that’s noted below.

When his deadline date passes, we’ll note below if a player was waived. If he remained on the roster, receiving his guarantee, that’s noted with a ✔️ symbol. However, since teams and players can agree to push back guarantee dates, we’ll wait for confirmation one way or the other on those guarantees — if a player simply remains on the roster, without any updates, we won’t necessarily assume his deal has become guaranteed.

With the help of contract information from The Vertical and Basketball Insiders, here are this summer’s upcoming salary guarantee dates by team:

Atlanta Hawks

  • Mike Dunleavy: $5,175,000 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 1. Currently partially guaranteed ($1,662,500). (Waived)

Boston Celtics

Brooklyn Nets

  • Joe Harris: $1,524,305 salary becomes fully guaranteed after June 30. (✔️)
  • Sean Kilpatrick: $1,524,305 salary becomes fully guaranteed after June 30. (✔️)
  • Quincy Acy: $1,709,538 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 16. (✔️)

Charlotte Hornets

Chicago Bulls

  • Rajon Rondo: $13,397,000 salary becomes fully guaranteed after June 30. Currently partially guaranteed ($3,000,000). (Waived)
  • Isaiah Canaan: $1,577,230 salary becomes fully guaranteed after June 30. Currently partially guaranteed ($200,000). (Waived)

Cleveland Cavaliers

  • None

Dallas Mavericks

  • Salah Merji: $1,471,382 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 12. (✔️)
  • Nicolas Brussino: $1,312,611 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 20. (Waived)

Denver Nuggets

Detroit Pistons

  • Michael Gbinije: $1,312,611 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 15. Currently partially guaranteed ($500,000). (Waived)

Golden State Warriors

  • None

Houston Rockets

  • Ryan Kelly: $1,577,230 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 7. (Waived)
  • Jarrod Uthoff: $1,312,611 salary becomes partially guaranteed ($200,000) after July 30. (Waived)

Indiana Pacers

  • Glenn Robinson: $1,471,382 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 1. (✔️)
  • Joe Young: $1,471,382 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 1. (✔️)
  • Rakeem Christmas: $1,471,382 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 6. Currently partially guaranteed ($50,000). (Waived)
  • Georges Niang: $1,312,611 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 15. Currently partially guaranteed ($100,000). (Waived)
  • Kevin Seraphin: $1,974,159 salary becomes fully guaranteed after August 1. (Waived)

Los Angeles Clippers

  • DeAndre Liggins: $1,577,230 salary becomes partially guaranteed ($26,773) after June 24. (✔️)
  • Paul Pierce: $3,679,840 salary becomes fully guaranteed after June 30. Currently partially guaranteed ($1,096,080). (Waived)
  • Darrun Hilliard: $1,471,382 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 1. (Waived)
  • Kyle Wiltjer: $1,312,611 salary becomes fully guaranteed after August 1. (Waived)

Los Angeles Lakers

Memphis Grizzlies

  • None

Miami Heat

  • Josh Richardson: $1,471,382 salary becomes fully guaranteed after June 30. (✔️)
  • Wayne Ellington: $6,270,000 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 7. (✔️)
  • Rodney McGruder: $1,312,611 salary becomes partially guaranteed ($452,625) after August 1. (✔️)
  • Okaro White: $1,312,611 salary becomes partially guaranteed for $452,624 after August 1. Currently partially guaranteed for $226,312. (✔️)

Milwaukee Bucks

  • None

Minnesota Timberwolves

New Orleans Pelicans

  • Quinn Cook: $1,312,611 salary becomes partially guaranteed for $100,000 after July 25. Currently partially guaranteed ($25,000). (Waived)
  • Jordan Crawford: $1,709,538 salary becomes partially guaranteed ($250,000) after August 1. (✔️)

New York Knicks

Oklahoma City Thunder

  • None

Orlando Magic

  • Stephen Zimmerman: $1,312,611 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 6. (Waived)
  • C.J. Watson: $5,000,000 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 10. Currently partially guaranteed ($1,000,000). (Waived)

Philadelphia 76ers

  • Gerald Henderson: $9,000,000 salary becomes fully guaranteed after June 30. Currently partially guaranteed $1,000,000. (Waived)
  • Robert Covington: $1,577,230 salary becomes partially guaranteed ($53,547) after August 9. (✔️)

Phoenix Suns

  • Leandro Barbosa: $4,000,000 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 3. Currently partially guaranteed ($500,000). (Waived)

Portland Trail Blazers

  • Festus Ezeli: $7,733,000 salary becomes fully guaranteed after June 30. Currently partially guaranteed ($1,000,000). (Waived)
  • Pat Connaughton: $1,471,382 salary becomes fully guaranteed after August 31. (✔️)

Sacramento Kings

  • Anthony Tolliver: $8,000,000 salary becomes fully guaranteed after June 1. Currently partially guaranteed ($2,000,000). (Waived)
  • Arron Afflalo: $12,500,000 salary becomes fully guaranteed after June 23. Currently partially guaranteed ($1,500,000). (Waived)

San Antonio Spurs

  • Bryn Forbes: $1,312,611 salary becomes partially guaranteed ($100,000) after August 1. (✔️)

Toronto Raptors

  • Norman Powell: $1,471,382 salary becomes fully guaranteed after June 29. (✔️)
  • Fred VanVleet: $1,312,611 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 20. (✔️)

Utah Jazz

  • Boris Diaw: $7,500,000 salary becomes fully guaranteed after July 15. (Waived)

Washington Wizards

  • Sheldon Mac: $1,312,611 salary becomes partially guaranteed ($50,000) after July 1. (✔️)
  • Daniel Ochefu: $1,312,611 salary becomes partially guaranteed ($50,000) after July 1. (✔️)

Note: Most players with team options are not listed here; decisions on those option are due before the end of the 2016/17 league year, in late June. Some players with team options still have non-guaranteed salaries after the options are exercised, in which case they may be mentioned above.

Note: Salary guarantee dates can be renegotiated by the player and team.

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