NBA CALENDAR 2024-2025
2024
June 26-27: 2024 NBA Draft
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
April 14: Playoff rosters set (3pm ET)
April 15-18: NBA Play-In Tournament
April 19: NBA Playoffs Begin
Priority order for waiver claims is now based on 2024/25 record rather than 2023/24 record
Most offseason signees become eligible for inclusion in trades
Legend:
Awards Miscellaneous NBA Draft Playoffs Preseason Rosters