{"id":821798,"date":"2026-07-24T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821798\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:57:10","slug":"previewing-potential-nba-roster-crunches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/821798\/","title":{"rendered":"Previewing Potential NBA Roster Crunches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/front-office-originals\" class=\"front-office-badge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/author\/rorymaher\" title=\"Posts by Rory Maher\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory Maher<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at July 24, 2026 4:06 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Our Luke Adams gave a brief overview of some of the possible roster crunches around the NBA a few weeks ago in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/07\/offseason-observations-morant-draft-pick-trades-roster-crunches.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Offseason Observations<\/a> story for Trade Rumors Front Office subscribers. Additional moves have been made since then, with some of those same rosters becoming increasingly crowded.<\/p>\n<p>Today we\u2019ll take a closer look at several teams who have more than 15 players on standard contracts and consider how those situations might be resolved. Players on fully guaranteed standard contracts are noted in parentheses.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis Grizzlies<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies currently have the most crowded roster in the NBA. On one hand, there are several players who either look expendable or don\u2019t fit the team\u2019s rebuilding timeline. Veteran big man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gibsota01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-19_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Taj Gibson<\/a> is the most obvious candidate to be waived, since he\u2019s 41 years old and on a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/07\/2026-27-non-guaranteed-contracts-by-team.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">non-guaranteed contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"landing-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/landing-logo.png\" width=\"372\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n  Unlock Subscriber-Exclusive Articles Like This One With a Trade Rumors Front Office Subscription<\/p>\n<p>  &#13;<br \/>\n    Access weekly subscriber-only articles by Luke Adams&#13;<br \/>\n    Join exclusive weekly live chats with Arthur Hill&#13;<br \/>\n    Remove ads and support our writers.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/membership?ref=484655\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Rory Maher | at July 24, 2026 4:06 pm Our Luke Adams gave a brief overview of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-821798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}