With the 2024/25 NBA regular season in the books, nearly half of the league’s teams have shifted their focus to the offseason and others will soon follow suit.
That means it’s time to retire our list of the NBA’s key in-season dates and deadlines for the ’24/25 campaign in favor of an updated offseason calendar of the most important dates facing teams and players in the coming months.
In the space below, you’ll find a breakdown of many of the NBA’s important dates and deadlines for the next few months, right up until training camps open for the 2025/26 season.
April 26
- Deadline for early entrants to declare for the NBA draft (10:59 pm CT).
- Note: For more information on draft-related dates and deadlines, check out our full breakdown.
May 9-11
- NBA G League combine.
May 12
- NBA draft lottery.
May 11-18
- NBA draft combine.
May 28
- Last day for early entrants to withdraw from the NBA draft and retain their NCAA eligibility (10:59 pm CT).
June 5
- NBA Finals begin.
June 15
- Deadline for all early entrants (including international players) to withdraw from the NBA draft (4:00 pm CT).
June 22
- Latest possible end date for NBA Finals.
TBD (first day after NBA Finals)
- Teams can begin negotiating with their own free agents.
June 25
- Day one of NBA draft (first round).
June 26
- Day two of NBA draft (second round).
June 29
- Last day for decisions on player, team, and early termination options
- Note: Certain contracts will require earlier decisions.
- Last day for teams to make qualifying offers to players eligible for restricted free agency.
June 30
- Last official day of the 2024/25 NBA league year.
- Last day for players eligible for veteran extensions in 2024/25 to sign them.
- Teams can begin negotiating with free agents from other clubs (5:00 pm CT).
July 1
- Official start of the 2025/26 NBA league year.
- Moratorium period begins.
- Restricted free agents can sign an offer sheet.
- Teams can begin signing players to one- or two-year minimum-salary contracts.
- Teams can begin signing players to two-way contracts.
- Teams can begin signing first-round picks to rookie scale contracts.
- Teams can begin signing second-round picks using the second-round pick exception.
- Teams can begin exercising the third- or fourth-year team options for 2026/27 on rookie scale contracts.
July 6
- Moratorium period ends (11:01 am CT).
- Teams can begin officially signing players, extending players, and completing trades (11:01 am CT).
- The 24-hour period for matching an RFA offer sheet signed during the moratorium begins (11:01 am CT).
July 10-20
- Las Vegas Summer League.
July 13
- Last day for teams to unilaterally withdraw qualifying offers to restricted free agents.
July 31
- Players signed using the second-round pick exception begin to count against a team’s cap.
August 5
- Last day for teams to issue required tenders to unsigned second-round picks.
August 29
- Last day for teams to waive players and apply the stretch provision to their 2025/26 salaries.
Late September (specific dates TBA)
- Training camps open.
Information from NBA.com was used in the creation of this post.