• 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 5-8: Salt Lake City Summer League

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 6-9: California Classic Summer League

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.