Due primarily to the league-wide COVID-19 outbreak in December and January – and all the replacement players required during that outbreak – the 2021/22 NBA season has been a record-setting one for 10-day contracts.
By our count, the number of 10-day contracts signed this season has reached a staggering 196, and will increase to 197 once the Pelicans‘ reported deal with Tyrone Wallace is officially finalized. We’ve tracked every single one of those signings using our 10-day contract tracker. The full list of this season’s 10-day pacts can be found right here.
Besides featuring all of this year’s 10-day deals, our 10-day contract tracker includes information on all 10-day contracts signed since the 2006/07 season. The search filters in the database make it easy to sort by team, player and year. For instance, if you want to see all the 10-day contracts that the Lakers have signed in recent years, you can do so here.
You can also use the tracker to identify which 10-day deals remain active. That list, which can be found right here, is as follows:
- Charlotte Hornets: Isaiah Thomas (runs through 3/11)
- New Orleans Pelicans: Alize Johnson (runs through 3/11)
- Portland Trail Blazers: Drew Eubanks (runs through 3/13)
- Boston Celtics: Malik Fitts (runs through 3/14)
- Boston Celtics: Kelan Martin (runs through 3/14)
- Toronto Raptors: Armoni Brooks (runs through 3/15)
- Cleveland Cavaliers: Moses Brown (runs through 3/19)
Players are typically prohibited from signing more than two 10-day contracts with the same team in a given league year. Since Thomas, Johnson, Brooks, and Brown are on their first 10-day contracts with their respective clubs, they’ll be eligible to sign at least one more.
Eubanks would also be eligible to continue signing 10-day deals with the Trail Blazers, since his first two have been completed using an injury-related hardship exception — those hardship deals don’t count toward the limit.
Fitts and Martin are on their second standard 10-day deals with Boston, so they won’t be eligible to sign a third unless Boston qualifies for a hardship exception. The Celtics will either have to sign them to rest-of-season contracts or let them go after their current deals expire on Monday night.
Why is it 10 days and not 7 or 14?
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