June 30: Teams may begin negotiating with all other upcoming free agents (6pm ET)

July 1:

• Official start of the 2024/25 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 2025/26 on rookie scale contracts

July 6: Free agent moratorium ends (12:01pm ET). Teams may begin signing free agents to contracts, extending players, and completing trades

July 6-10: NBA 2K25 Summer League (California Classic)

July 8-10: NBA 2K25 Summer League (Salt Lake City)

July 10: USA Basketball Showcase (USA vs Canada)

July 12-22: NBA 2K25 Summer League (Las Vegas)

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 31: Last day for teams to waive players and apply the stretch provision to their 2024/25 salaries

September 27: Training camps open for teams playing exhibition games outside North America

October 1: Training camps open for remaining teams

October 19: Last day for players on fully non-guaranteed contracts to be waived and not count at all against a team’s 2024/25 cap

October 21: Last day of the 2024 offseason

• Roster limits decrease from 21 players to 18 (5:00 pm ET). Teams will be limited to carrying 15 players on standard contracts and three on two-way deals as of this deadline.
• Last day for teams to sign a player to a rookie scale extension (6:00 pm ET)
• Last day for teams to sign an extension-eligible veteran player with multiple seasons left on his contract to an extension. An extension-eligible veteran player on an expiring deal can still be extended after October 21
• Last day for teams to complete sign-and-trade deals
• Last day for teams to convert an Exhibit 10 contract into a two-way contract

October 22: 2024/25 regular season begins

October 26: NBA G League draft

October 28: NBA G League training camps open

October 31: Deadline for teams to exercise rookie scale options for 2025-26

November 8: NBA G League Tip-Off Tournament begins

November 12: NBA In-Season Tournament Begins

December 1: Priority order for waiver claims is now based on 2024-25 record, rather than 2023-24 record

December 3: NBA In-Season Tournament Group Play Concludes

December 10-11: NBA In-Season Tournament Quarterfinals

December 14: NBA In-Season Tournament Semifinals

December 15: Most offseason signees become eligible for inclusion in trades

December 17: NBA In-Season Tournament Finals

December 19-22: NBA G League Winter Showcase and Tip-Off Tournament Championship

December 27: NBA G League Regular Season Begins

January 5: First day teams can sign players to 10-day contracts

January 7: Last day to waive non-guaranteed NBA contracts (including two-way contracts) before they become guaranteed for the rest of the season

• Salaries officially guarantee on January 10 if players haven’t cleared waivers before that date.

January 15: Most offseason signees become eligible for inclusion in trades

• Also the last day to apply for a disabled player exception.

February 1: Former 1st round picks who were stashed overseas may sign rookie scale NBA contracts for the 2025-26 season

February 6: NBA Trade Deadline (3pm ET)

February 7: The value of teams’ unused mid-level exceptions and bi-annual exceptions begins to prorate downward by 1/174th per day

February 14-16: NBA All-Star Weekend 2025 (San Francisco)

February 29: Last day for contract renegotiations

March 1:

• Last day a player can be waived by one team and remain eligible to appear in the postseason for another team
• Last day for a restricted free agent to sign an offer sheet

March 4: Last day for a team to sign a player to a two-way contract

March 10: Last day for a team to use a disabled player exception

March 29: NBA G League regular season ends

April 1: NBA G League playoffs begin

April 10: Last day to waive a player on an expiring contract or a player with an option for 2025-26 (5pm ET)

April 13:

• Last day of the NBA regular season
• Last day players can sign contracts for 2024-25
• Last day two-way contracts can be converted to standard NBA contracts
• Luxury tax penalties calculated based on payroll as of this day