As teams explore the trade market for potential deals to complete their rosters for training camp, there are a number of trade restrictions those clubs must take into account. Most notably, newly-signed free agents can’t be dealt until at least December 15.
The NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement states that a free agent who signs with an NBA team can’t be traded for three months or until December 15, whichever is later. Those rules will be tweaked slightly this year to account for the shortened offseason, but December 15 will still be the earliest date that a player who signs as a free agent this summer can be dealt.
There are also some recently-signed players who meet a few specific criteria and can’t be traded until January 15. Those players are listed here.
The players who aren’t eligible to be traded until December 15 are listed below.
Players whose contracts haven’t been officially finalized aren’t yet listed below. Players who have the ability to veto trades in 2021/22 are marked with a caret (^). Players on non-guaranteed or partially guaranteed contracts are marked with an asterisk (*). However, those on Exhibit 10/training camp deals won’t be listed here unless they make the regular season roster.
We’ll continue to update this page over the next few months as players are signed or waived.
Updated 11-7-21 (6:02am CT)
Atlanta Hawks
Boston Celtics
Brooklyn Nets
Charlotte Hornets
Chicago Bulls
Cleveland Cavaliers
Dallas Mavericks
Denver Nuggets
Detroit Pistons
Golden State Warriors
Houston Rockets
Indiana Pacers
Los Angeles Clippers
Los Angeles Lakers
- Carmelo Anthony
- Trevor Ariza
- Kent Bazemore
- Wayne Ellington
- Dwight Howard
- DeAndre Jordan
- Malik Monk
- Kendrick Nunn
- Rajon Rondo
Memphis Grizzlies
- None
Miami Heat
- Dewayne Dedmon ^
- Udonis Haslem ^
- Kyle Lowry
- Markieff Morris
- Victor Oladipo ^
- Max Strus
- P.J. Tucker
- Gabe Vincent
- Omer Yurtseven
Milwaukee Bucks
Minnesota Timberwolves
- None
New Orleans Pelicans
New York Knicks
Oklahoma City Thunder
Orlando Magic
Philadelphia 76ers
Phoenix Suns
Portland Trail Blazers
Sacramento Kings
San Antonio Spurs
Toronto Raptors
Utah Jazz
Washington Wizards
Information from Basketball Insiders was used in the creation of this post.
So, I gather DeAndre Bembry could not be traded as a means to get to 15-man regular season roster limit prior to the start of the regular season. He would need to be cut and paid $750,000 if that’s the way they chose to go.
Correct.