2017/18 NBA Non-Guaranteed Contracts By Team

As the NBA regular season approaches and teams reduce their rosters from the 20-player offseason limit to the 15-man regular season max, the best way to determine which players will survive preseason cuts is to assess their contracts. Players with guaranteed salaries for 2017/18 are far more likely to earn spots on 15-man rosters than players whose contracts aren’t fully guaranteed.

Keeping that in mind, we’re using the space below to keep tabs on the players on each NBA team who don’t have fully guaranteed contracts, using information from Basketball Insiders and ESPN. The players listed here have non-guaranteed salaries, partially guaranteed salaries, or Exhibit 9 or Exhibit 10 contracts, which essentially function like non-guaranteed deals. Unless otherwise noted, these players are on minimum salary contracts.

Not all of these players will be waived before the regular season begins, so we’ll maintain this list for the next several months, up until January 10, 2018. That’s the day that all players under contract have their salaries fully guaranteed for the rest of the 2017/18 season.

Some players on this list currently have partial guarantees or will have their salaries become guaranteed prior to January 10. We’ve noted those partial guarantees in parentheses, and our list of early salary guarantee dates can be found right here.

Only players who have formally signed contracts are listed below, so if a player has reportedly reached an agreement with a team on a non-guaranteed deal, we’ll add him to our list when that deal becomes official. For now, you can use our roster counts page to find those players whose deals have been reported but not finalized.

Our roster counts page also notes how many guaranteed salaries each team has on its books, which will provide an idea of which players listed below might have a better chance to earn a roster spot — a non-guaranteed player on a roster with 12 guaranteed salaries has better odds to make his team’s 15-man squad than a non-guaranteed player on a roster with 15 guaranteed salaries.

Without further ado, here’s the full list of players without fully guaranteed salaries for 2017/18, broken down by team:

Updated 1-10-17 (11:03am CT)

Atlanta Hawks

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Boston Celtics

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Brooklyn Nets

• None

Charlotte Hornets

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Chicago Bulls

• None

Cleveland Cavaliers

• None

Dallas Mavericks

• None

Denver Nuggets

• None

Detroit Pistons

• None

Golden State Warriors

• None

Houston Rockets

• None

Indiana Pacers

• None

Los Angeles Clippers

• None

Los Angeles Lakers

• None

Memphis Grizzlies

• None

Miami Heat

• None

Milwaukee Bucks

• None

Minnesota Timberwolves

• None

New Orleans Pelicans

• None

New York Knicks

• None

Oklahoma City Thunder

• None

Orlando Magic

• None

Philadelphia 76ers

• None

Phoenix Suns

• None

Portland Trail Blazers

• None

Sacramento Kings

• None

San Antonio Spurs

• None

Toronto Raptors

• None

Utah Jazz

• None

Washington Wizards

• None

Information from Basketball Insiders and ESPN was used in the creation of this post.