{"id":394307,"date":"2026-01-07T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394307\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:04:08","slug":"the-nbas-league-wide-salary-guarantee-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394307\/","title":{"rendered":"The NBA\u2019s league-wide salary guarantee date \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/01\/wednesday-is-decision-day-for-non-guaranteed-contracts.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The NBA\u2019s league-wide salary guarantee date technically falls on January 10 each season, but January 7 always represents decision day for teams carrying players on non-guaranteed contracts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The NBA\u2019s league-wide salary guarantee date technically falls on January 10 each season, but January 7 always represents decision day for teams carrying players on non-guaranteed contracts<\/a>. A player with a non-guaranteed contract who is still on waivers as of Jan. 10 is assured of receiving his full salary, so in order to avoid that scenario, a team must cut that player on or before Jan. 7. As long as the player is placed on waivers by 4:00 pm Central time on Wednesday, he\u2019ll clear waivers on Friday (Jan. 9), a day before his salary would become guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/01\/wednesday-is-decision-day-for-non-guaranteed-contracts.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hoops Rumors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Hoops Rumors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA\u2019s league-wide salary guarantee date technically falls on January 10 each season, but January 7 always represents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,166920,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-394307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-non-guaranteed","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}