When a player is traded from team A to team B are they not allowed to return to team for a calendar year (365 days) or until the nba league year flips which I think is July 1?
Example: If a current player is traded on draft night but gets cut thereafter could they return to team A during the same off-season?
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Smitty731
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Calendar year. This came up with Samuel Dalembert in recent years.
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The answer to the original question depends on the manner by which he might return to the original team and the nature of his contract.
A prohibition on a "trade back" to a prior team is only limited to the end of the NBA season (ie June 30) in which the trade away from that team occurred. There can never be a 365-day wait on that.
There can be a lengthier restriction on Team A signing a player they traded away, after he has subsequently been waived by Team B they traded him to, and become a free agent. (Teams used to prearrange to trade away a player, have the acquiring team waive him, and then pick him right back up as a free agent, in a boomerang fashion. Rules now prevent that.)
- If the player traded away is on an expiring contract, then the restriction of getting him again ends on June 30 (at the latest).
- But if (and only if) he still had multiple years left on his deal, there will be a one year wait before he can be WAIVED by Team B and signed by Team A after clearing waivers.
That only applies to a waiver off of Team B, however. If he is first traded from Team A to Team B, and then later Team B trades him to Team C, and then waived by C, the restrictions on signing him apply to team B but not to Team A even if within the same season, because Team A is not the team that traded him to Team C before the waiver.
A prohibition on a "trade back" to a prior team is only limited to the end of the NBA season (ie June 30) in which the trade away from that team occurred. There can never be a 365-day wait on that.
There can be a lengthier restriction on Team A signing a player they traded away, after he has subsequently been waived by Team B they traded him to, and become a free agent. (Teams used to prearrange to trade away a player, have the acquiring team waive him, and then pick him right back up as a free agent, in a boomerang fashion. Rules now prevent that.)
- If the player traded away is on an expiring contract, then the restriction of getting him again ends on June 30 (at the latest).
- But if (and only if) he still had multiple years left on his deal, there will be a one year wait before he can be WAIVED by Team B and signed by Team A after clearing waivers.
That only applies to a waiver off of Team B, however. If he is first traded from Team A to Team B, and then later Team B trades him to Team C, and then waived by C, the restrictions on signing him apply to team B but not to Team A even if within the same season, because Team A is not the team that traded him to Team C before the waiver.