The NBA is expected to open the transaction window prior to the 2020 draft, according to Brian Windhorst of ESPN. The draft is scheduled for Nov. 18.
Teams currently cannot conduct trades or waive or sign players, but should be able to as soon as the league and union agree on a new collective bargaining agreement and “how to manage the expected drop in revenue from the pandemic,” Windhorst wrote.
Assuming an agreement is reached, the free agency period is expected to start shortly after the draft, likely in late November or early December.
“For the past decade, as the country recovered from the Great Recession, the NBA has been in a tremendous period of revenue and salary growth,” Windhorst wrote. “Now most players are facing pay cuts to salaries they thought were guaranteed. Coming to grips with that could make the talks that need to happen difficult.”
