As the NBA regular season approaches and teams reduce their rosters from the 21-player offseason limit to the 15-man regular season max, the best way to determine which players will survive preseason cuts is to consider their contracts. Players with guaranteed salaries for 2024/25 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. 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. Some players on this list have partial guarantees, which we’ve also mentioned below.
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, 2025. That’s the day that all players still under contract will have their salaries fully guaranteed for the rest of the 2024/25 season.
[RELATED: Early NBA Salary Guarantee Dates For 2024/25]
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 and we confirm the details.
Without further ado, here’s the full list of players without fully guaranteed salaries for 2024/25, broken down by team:
Updated 10-31-24 (1:41pm CT)
Atlanta Hawks
- None
Boston Celtics
- None
Brooklyn Nets
- Keon Johnson
- Partially guaranteed for $700,000.
- Jalen Wilson
- Partially guaranteed for $325,000.
Charlotte Hornets
- Taj Gibson
- Partially guaranteed for $1,082,270.
Chicago Bulls
Cleveland Cavaliers
- Craig Porter
- Partially guaranteed for $1,000,000.
- Sam Merrill
- Tristan Thompson
Dallas Mavericks
Denver Nuggets
- None
Detroit Pistons
- Paul Reed ($7,723,000)
Golden State Warriors
Houston Rockets
- None
Indiana Pacers
- James Johnson
- Partially guaranteed for $750,000.
- James Wiseman
- Partially guaranteed for $500,000.
Los Angeles Clippers
- None
Los Angeles Lakers
- None
Memphis Grizzlies
- None
Miami Heat
- None
Milwaukee Bucks
- Andre Jackson
- Partially guaranteed for $945,929.
Minnesota Timberwolves
- PJ Dozier
- Partially guaranteed for $1,000,000.
New Orleans Pelicans
- None
New York Knicks
- None
Oklahoma City Thunder
Orlando Magic
- None
Philadelphia 76ers
Phoenix Suns
- None
Portland Trail Blazers
- Dalano Banton
- Partially guaranteed for $1,098,485.
Sacramento Kings
- Doug McDermott
- Partially guaranteed for $750,000.
- Orlando Robinson
- Partially guaranteed for $500,000.
- Keon Ellis
San Antonio Spurs
- None
Toronto Raptors
Utah Jazz
- None
Washington Wizards
- None
missing: Zion Williamson, TJ McConnell, Garrison Mathews
shouldn’t be included: PJ Dozier, Keon Ellis, Lindy Waters III
(could be wrong with Dozier)
McConnell and Mathews became guaranteed near the end of June. I don’t believe Williamson’s 2024/25 salary has ever been non-guaranteed (there were criteria under which the guarantee could be reduced to 50%, but they weren’t met)
I trust my sources on Dozier, Ellis, and Waters.